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Need to know: Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Portland mayor asks feds to bar free-speech and anti-sharia rallies after stabbings
Ted Wheeler says the city is still “in shock” after two men were fatally stabbed while fending off a man shouting anti-Muslim slurs.
Mourning in Manchester, religious and secular traditions meet and meld
This is a moment where Christian tradition meets secular rituals that have come to define public mourning since this increasingly irreligious nation said goodbye to Princess Diana exactly 20 years ago.
Muslim women in India challenge ‘instant divorce’ law
With such divorces, available only to men, husbands can oust their wives from their homes, usually without any alimony.
For two evangelical Christians, Manuel Antonio Noriega became the ultimate jailhouse convert
The Panamanian dictator, who died Monday, underwent a full-fledged conversion guided by two American ministers.
US visas issued to visitors from Muslim majority countries drop
Some think Trump policies are having a “chilling effect” on travel to the United States from Muslim nations.
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Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State Department, sources say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) The Secretary of State is apparently breaking with a bipartisan tradition in place with few exceptions for nearly 20 years.
As major cities crack down on panhandling, people of faith wrestle with their consciences
OKLAHOMA CITY (RNS) Ordinances making it a crime to approach vehicles at intersections are touted as safety measures. Civil liberties advocates say the homeless are being treated as 'human blight.'
Masked gunmen kill 28 in attack on Christians in Egypt
Masked men stopped two buses and a truck and opened fire on a road leading to the monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor in Minya province, which is home to a sizable Christian minority.
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The most Jewish thing that JFK ever said
Was John F. Kennedy a Jewish theologian? Almost.
Why Trump’s travel ban deserved another thumping
The President has had his 90 days and then some.
Mainstream rap has grown more Christian. So why is Christian rap going mainstream?
Jonathan Merritt puts the question to Christian rap artist Propaganda.
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