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Need to know: Friday, August 26, 2016
Two nuns found stabbed to death in Mississippi
Sisters Paula Merrill and Margaret Held were founded dead after they failed to show up at their clinic, which serves an impoverished county.
Outside Paris, a clinic aims to tackle an age-old practice
Up to 60,000 women in France, and an estimated half-million or more across the European Union, have undergone female genital mutilation.
Faith-based volunteers help search for quake victims in Italy
Catholic bishops have made large donations and Catholic volunteers have turned out to help earthquake victims.
Kayla Mueller defended Christian faith to ISIS executioner ‘Jihadi John’
Four of the Westerners released by ISIS and a Yazidi teenager who escaped captivity have provided eyewitness accounts of the Arizona aid worker's strength.
Vancouver Christians collide over televangelist Franklin Graham
Saying that Graham is often “incendiary and intolerant,” some oppose his participation in a March 2017 festival that many of the city’s mega-churches are supporting.
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Troubled Europe debates burqas, niqabs and burkinis
BERLIN -- Restrictions on face and full-body veils are back in the spotlight in parts of Europe after some French cities banned the burkini swimsuit, saying the garment, which leaves only the face, hands and feet exposed, defies laws on secularism.
Desmond Tutu checks into hospital for infection
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Veteran South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu checked into a Cape Town hospital for a recurring infection, his daughter said on Wednesday. The bug put the former cleric in the hospital for a week last year.
In a first, US stamp to celebrate a Hindu holiday
(RNS) Muslims, Jews and Christians have long had stamps recognizing their holidays. Now it's Hindus' turn.
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A landslide victory for Catholics and Lutherans
Some see the change as betrayal. If Catholics and Lutherans had convictions, we hear, they’d still be murderous toward each other...
Trump Foundation closes as candidate becomes model philanthropist turned presidential candidate
NEW YORK CITY (RNS) The charity's programs targeting religious minorities and President Obama will come to an end.
Giveaway: Win a free copy of new ‘Pray and Color’ coloring book
Win a free copy of a new spiritual coloring book -- and read an interview with its author, Sybil MacBeth.
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