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Need to know: Monday, May 8, 2017
Nigeria exchanges 82 Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram for prisoners
The kidnapping was one of the high-profile incidents of Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast, now in its eighth year and with little sign of ending.
‘We are the No,’ Cardinal Tobin says as faith leaders vow to support immigrants
An interfaith coalition in New Jersey convened imams, pastors, priests and rabbis to urge action amid swift changes to immigration enforcement and health care.
Kumail Nanjiani’s culture-clash comedy
His standup comedy and his new movie, “The Big Sick,” offer portrayals of secular Muslims that American audiences rarely see.
How the British developed a taste for religion in politics
The reasons are complex and include an aggressive secularism, the influx of migrants of other faiths and fears about Islam.
Body of Maryland priest exhumed in investigation of nun’s slaying in 1970
Police in Maryland have exhumed the body of a Catholic priest who died in 2001 as part of the investigation into the unsolved slaying nearly 50 years ago of a Baltimore nun.
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A church closes, but where does its pipe organ go?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A glut of organs up for grabs is in part a consequence of declining church membership across denominations.
The Maccabeats sing to promote ‘halachic prenups’ for Orthodox Jewish couples
NEW YORK (RNS) The endearing group of a cappella Orthodox Jewish singers is out with a 30-second spot that takes aim at the phenomenon of "agunot," or "chained women" whose husbands will not grant them a divorce.
Trump’s religious liberty order slammed as ‘pretty much nothing’
“Ivanka and Jared won. We lost,” as one Christian conservative said.
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Trump casts faith leaders as unpaid extras in his TV-show presidency
(RNS) A clownish cast of old-school religious-right figures and various other Trump disciples eagerly showed up to dutifully support the president’s executive action, completely unaware of how insignificant it turned out to be.
Who are Jehovah’s Witnesses?
Their biblical interpretations and missionary work have critics. But it is the group's political neutrality that has attracted the most suspicion. They do not vote in elections.
Trump’s religious freedom nothingburger
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing of substance.
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Bonus tracks
- Meet Dr. Willie Parker, a Southern Christian abortion provider
- ‘Stranger in a Strange Land’: Looking for the man who took Kabbalah mainstream
- Clergy members aren’t being persecuted for their politics
- The American Health Care Act’s prosperity gospel
- Prince Philip: Cyclone coinciding with retirement ‘likely to cement God status among cult who worship him’
