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Need to know: Thursday, June 1, 2017
Doing good and doing well: Faith-based investing converts the skeptics
Private investment firms see new opportunities as socially responsible investing becomes popular — and profitable. So what’s left for religious advocates to do?
Group cancels anti-Muslim rally in Portland, says it will be moved to Seattle
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler had asked organizers to cancel the “Portland March Against Sharia" in light of last week's deadly stabbing aboard a light rail train.
Catholic farmer ousted from Michigan market over same-sex marriage views
Stephen Tennes was barred from a municipal farmers market after he refused to host a lesbian couple’s wedding. He now is suing the city.
Trump administration reversing Obamacare’s birth control mandate
Once the final rule is implemented, women’s groups say it will be up to the states — and possibly the courts — to protect insurance coverage for contraceptives.
New York’s high court hears physician-assisted suicide case
Plaintiffs argue that existing laws against assisting a suicide shouldn't apply to those seeking merciful ends to incurable illnesses.
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Suspect in fatal Portland attack yells about ‘free speech’ at hearing
PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) Suspect Jeremy Joseph Christian, a 35-year-old convicted felon, entered the Portland courtroom Tuesday (May 30) yelling "Free speech or die, Portland. You got no safe place."
NJ mosque wins $3.25 million in settlement in discrimination case
The Islamic Society of Basking Ridge sued Bernards Township, which held 39 hearings on a planned mosque — hearings which subjected mosque members to anti-Muslim tirades — and refused to issue buildings permits.
Cloistered nuns on Facebook: What’s not to like?
The 10 remaining nuns in an Italian convent are breaking their vow of silence with their own website, Facebook page and even a cellphone as part of an effort to ensure the order’s survival.
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Memorial Day, Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the American future
In a time of bitter divisions in New Orleans and throughout the nation at large, Landrieu spoke not as a great denunciator, but as a great enunciator of directions for his contemporaries to take.
‘The most fantastic association of men imaginable’
What is activating and inflaming white supremacists right now?
Don’t blame Trump for Portland killings
(RNS) Racism knows no politics, and white supremacy is not a disease of a particular political party or ethnicity.
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- The disappearance of virtue from American politics
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- The Arabic word that perfectly describes the uncertainty of my condition
