Need to know: Monday, October 10, 2016
Muslims respond to Trump’s comments with #MuslimsReportStuff
“I’m a Muslim, and I would like to report a crazy man threatening a woman on a stage in Missouri,” one of them tweeted.
Will lewd Trump tape about groping be tipping point with conservative Christians?
The GOP nominee’s performance in Sunday’s night’s debate may have shifted the political focus off his comments. But his candidacy may turn on what his faith-based supporters think.
Pope Francis names 17 new cardinals, including 3 Americans
Thirteen are under 80 years old and eligible to enter a conclave to choose his successor — or become the next pope.
China seeks tighter grip in wake of a religious revival
The finances of religious groups will come under greater scrutiny. Theology students who go overseas could be monitored more closely. And people who rent or provide space to illegal churches may face heavy fines.
Once-powerful Philippines church divided, subdued over drug killings
Clergy say anyone who openly questions President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war could suffer a similar fate as the dozens of drug addicts and pushers who are being killed every day.
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New York archdiocese creates program to compensate sex abuse victims
NEW YORK — The arbitration scheme, which was put into place by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, represents a novel approach to compensating victims of predator priests.
A new Quran attempts to bridge divide between Christians and Muslims
(RNS) Two friends -- one Muslim and one Christian -- line up verses from the Quran and the Bible.
One century later, this man finally celebrated his bar mitzvah
Yisrael Kristal, 113, considered by Guinness World Records to be the world’s oldest man, had to postpone the rite of passage due to World War I.
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When Bruce Springsteen plays Israel
What a gift to the Jewish world, writes Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin.
Satan’s plan for Mormon parenting
Despite the fact that agency is so important to Mormon doctrine, what we preach is often closer to Satan’s plan of enforced obedience than it is to Christ’s plan of mercy, says guest blogger Mette Harrison. This is especially true when it comes to children.
How Trump has challenged my Christian faith
(RNS) I'll never vote for him. Must I love my neighbors who will?
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Bonus tracks
- Martin Luther as history’s first tweeter? An ongoing legacy, 500 years later
- Colorado’s longest-operating Jewish temple has closed after 127 years
- Catholic nominee for UN secretary-general opposed legalization of abortion in Portugal
- No U.S. president has ever visited a Sikh temple, so 20 congressmen want Obama to go
- Jacob Neusner, influential scholar of rabbinic Judaism, dies at 84
