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Hobby Lobby in Mansfield, Ohio. Photo courtesy of Creative Commons/Nicholas Eckhart
Need to know: Thursday, July 6, 2017
Hobby Lobby to forfeit ancient Iraqi artifacts in settlement with DOJ
The arts and crafts retailer will forfeit 5,000 illegally smuggled ancient Middle Eastern artifacts destined for a Bible museum, U.S. officials said.
Vatican police bust drug-fuelled gay sex orgy hosted at papal apartments by top priest
The priest serves as secretary to Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, Pope Francis' personal adviser.
Auschwitz officials chastise US Rep. Clay Higgins for gas chamber video
Auschwitz‑Birkenau Memorial and Museum leaders chastised a U.S. congressman for a video in which he lobbies for a strong military and tight homeland security from inside a gas chamber at the Nazi death camp.
Longtime Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls dies at 80
The physician/press officer who was a confidante of St. John Paul II transformed the Vatican press office into a modern media operation.
In Myanmar, one girl’s plight epitomizes Rohingya struggle
Half a decade after anti-Muslim violence exploded in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, more than 120,000 Rohingya Muslims were forced into a series of refugee camps and their prospects are grim.
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British baby on life support draws in pope, Trump
The life support 11-month-old Charlie Gard is receiving at a London hospital soon will be turned off over the objections of his parents, who want to take him to the United States for experimental therapy they believe could give him more time.
Vatican acknowledges past problems at ‘pope’s hospital’
An Associated Press investigation that found that under its previous 2008-2015 administration, the mission of the children's hospital had shifted to focus more on profits than on its young patients.
Pope shakes up Vatican by replacing conservative doctrinal chief
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) Mueller, 69, who was appointed by former Pope Benedict in 2012, will be succeeded by the department's No. 2, Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer.
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I can hear Jesus’ indignant response to the AGs who want to deport ‘Dreamers’
EL PASO, Texas (RNS) The roles of the scribes and Pharisees are being played out again today in the campaign to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Why on July 4 we should remember the psalm ‘By the Rivers of Babylon’
It inspired Frederick Douglass and has served as an uplifting historical analogy for oppressed and subjugated groups.
Where are the Mormon Shakespeares and Michelangelos?
This week in New York City, hundreds of people are celebrating the contributions of Mormon artists, composers, writers, and musicians.
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