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RNS Opening Budget — Thursday, April 29, 2021

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RNS-Pope-Transparency: Pope Francis cracks down on corruption in new decree
(RNS) – Pope Francis cracked down on corruption in Vatican finances on Thursday by issuing a decree on transparency requiring that anyone holding a management position at the Vatican, be they clergy or lay people, must sign a declaration stating that they have a clean record and don’t hold assets in tax havens. By Claire Giangravè. 800 words. (category: i)

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RNS-Meditation-Schools: Mindfulness meditation is now a staple in public schools, and thanks to Zoom, widely accessible
(RNS) — Mindfulness meditation for teachers and their students has become a hot trend in American education. Some outfits, such as the Rio Grande Mindfulness Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, have retooled their offerings for a wider online world.  The institute, an offshoot of Sante Fe’s Mountain Cloud Zen Center, has been offering Zoom-based mindfulness instruction for the state’s public school teachers. Recently it started an online lunch-hour guided meditation for public school teachers, social service providers, lawyers, caregivers and others. By Yonat Shimron. 1,100 words. (category: a)

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RNS-Coffee-Covid: The beloved church coffee hour may soon return as COVID fades
(RNS) — Coffee has long fueled after church conversations and helped churchgoers build long-term friendships. Banished by COVID-19, the church coffee hour might soon return.By Bob Smietana. 900 words. (category: a)


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RNS-Bering-Disaffiliation: Historic Houston church leaves United Methodist Church over LGBTQ stance
(RNS) — Bering Church in Houston is the latest United Methodist Church to announce its departure from the denomination — the second in the past year from the denomination’s Texas Annual Conference — over its decades-long debate over the ordination of LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriages. And it likely isn’t the last as the denomination faces a long wait before its next General Conference meeting, which was set to discuss a possible schism over the disagreement last year before it was postponed to 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. By Emily McFarlan Miller. 1,200 words. (category: a)

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