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Need to know: Monday, May 15, 2017
Callista Gingrich set to be named ambassador to the Vatican
Gingrich is a devout Catholic, telling the Christian Broadcasting Network in a 2011 interview that she has “always been a very spiritual person.”
Pope says he doubts continuing alleged Medjugorje apparitions are authentic
Pope Francis has voiced serious doubt about the authenticity of alleged continuing apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje, a once-obscure village in Bosnia where six children first reported visions in 1981.
Do Muslims have to be Democrats now?
“As Republicans have embraced an extreme anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim platform, has the Democratic Party emerged as our only viable political home?” asks Wajahat Ali.
Trump promises to protect Christians at Liberty commencement speech
“As long as I am your president no one is ever going to stop you from practicing your faith or from preaching what’s in your heart,” he said at the evangelical college in Lynchburg, Va.
James Comey: The fall of a Niebuhrian
What is the significance, if any, of the former FBI director’s attachment to the leading political theologian of the 20th century?
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Christian militias kill up to 30 Muslim civilians in Central African Republic
(RNS) Hundreds of civilians are seeking refuge inside a mosque in the Central African Republic's border town of Bangassou, said a United Nations official.
Mayor of Virginia city targeted by anti-Semitic tweets after criticizing marchers
(Reuters) Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer was the target of anti-Semitic tweets after speaking out against white nationalists who converged on a local park carrying blazing torches the night before.
Pope canonizes Fatima visionaries, giving church new child saints
(Reuters) Hundreds of thousands of people broke into applause as the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics proclaimed the siblings — Francisco and Jacinta Marto — the newest of the church's saints.
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Rob Bell takes back the Bible
(RNS) Rob Bell says the Bible has been hijacked by fundamentalists, and it's time to take it back.
Mormons scale back involvement with Boy Scouts. What’s behind it?
Mormon leaders are trying to “create and maintain youth programs that do a better job of keeping LDS young people tied to the church,” writes RNS columnist Jana Riess.
Will JFK’s grandson become our first Jewish president?
A new category: Jews-by-surprise. It says more about us than about them.
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