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Need to know: Monday, January 23, 2017
At the women’s march, the religious left resists Trump
Many at the march wanted it to be known: Americans of faith are not just conservative Christians.
With Trump at prayer service, clergy speak of compassion, diversity
The president, a Presbyterian, folded his arms at times and sat silently for the most part during the 70-minute service.
An unlikely messenger becomes a guiding spirit to young Muslims
No other Sunni imam could joke, as Imam Suhaib Webb did in a video last year, that his Snapchat handle is pimpin4paradise786.
Compassion International has ‘very little hope’ for India, sets deadline to shut down sponsorships
A little more than a year after the Indian government told the humanitarian organization it could no longer receive funding from outside the subcontinent, the group likely will close its last operations there.
Off the Mall, churches strategize, serve on Inauguration Day
An AME church hosted organizers who may challenge the Trump administration while a Presbyterian congregation opened its bathrooms to all.
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Trump sworn in amid protests and a large assortment of clergy
WASHINGTON (RNS) The new president took the oath on two Bibles and then pledged to wipe out "radical Islamic terrorism" in a dark speech cheered by supporters and protested by foes.
Ivanka Trump gets a rabbinic pass to travel on Shabbat
Orthodox Jews like the new president’s daughter and her husband are not allowed to drive or ride in a vehicle on the Sabbath, which begins just as the post-inaugural balls in Washington for Trump will be starting.
Prosperity, heresy and Trump: Inauguration pastor Paula White answers her critics
It’s not the personal attacks that bother her, she told RNS. The accusations of heresy, though, are a different story: “That’s my Lord, and that’s my Savior, and that is 32 years of my life.”
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Peaceful transfer of power can make things worse, says pope
Sometimes it leads to some very bad results.
America’s gospel of success leaves no room for failure
(RNS) Losing is the one thing Donald Trump detests more than anything else.
Does the presidency have a prayer?
How is America different? Another reason that you never considered before.
Welcome to the Trump era. Hold onto your hope.
A former Obama White House staffer says all Americans have reason to hope in the age of Trump.
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