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Need to know: Monday, October 17, 2016
ISIS driven out of ‘doomsday’ village where it prophesied end times battle
Its defeat at Dabiq underscores the group’s declining fortunes this year as it suffered battlefield defeats in Syria and Iraq and lost a string of senior leaders in targeted air strikes.
New Jesuit leader is Latin American, like the pope
The Rev. Arturo Sosa is the first Latin American to hold the post, much as Pope Francis, also a Jesuit, is the first Latin American elected to the papacy.
Kaine makes history: Delivers speech entirely in Spanish during Spanish-language church service
Tim Kaine made campaign history Sunday as the first presidential ticket candidate to deliver a speech entirely in Spanish during a Spanish-language church service.
Among Donald Trump’s biggest U.S. fans: Hindu nationalists
A faction of Hindu nationalists in India and the United States see Trump as the embodiment of the cocksure, politically incorrect, strongman brand of politics they admire.
Muslim woman settles in at Vermont military college
Sana Hamze is the first woman allowed to wear a Muslim headscarf beneath her military uniform at the nation's oldest private military college.
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Parliament committee: Labour Party not doing enough on anti-Semitism
A multi-party committee of lawmakers concludes that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn helped create a safe space within Labour ranks "for those with vile attitudes towards Jewish people."
Three Kansas men charged with bomb plot against Somali immigrants
The suspects, members of an anti-Muslim militia group called the Crusaders, allegedly plotted to bomb an apartment complex that is home to many Somalis and where one apartment serves as a mosque.
Vatican daily paper sees missed opportunity in Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize
VATICAN CITY (RNS) An editorial in the daily, L’Osservatore Romano, praised Dylan for his 'very great talent' yet expressed doubt about whether the songwriter really deserved the same plaudits as contemporary literary writers.
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InterVarsity Press responds to authors’ protest of controversial gay marriage termination policy
InterVarsity says authors will be exempt from their controversial gay marriage termination policy. Why, then, can't the same grace be extended to their accountants, assistants, and executives?
Why the Christian right still supports Trump
(RNS) The Christian right once said we need men of strong character to lead our nation. But that was before.
UNESCO gaslights the Jews
(RNS) Why is the world screwing with Jewish brains? Because that's the latest front in the war against the Jews.
Live by the gun, die by the gun
(RNS) If we want to be safe from guns the answer is not more guns. The answer is transformation.
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- Trump’s conspiracy theory smells like anti-Semitism
- Donald Trump reveals evangelical rifts that could shape politics for years
- ‘Do it for the water’: Native Americans carry Potomac water on prayerful, 400-mile journey
- The little-known Jewish holiday that draws Israelis outdoors
- A curious student dug through a box in the archives — and unearthed a centuries-old Geneva Bible
