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Buddhist monks at Chaiya Meditation Monastery offer prayers for the victims on Oct. 8, a week after the mass shooting in Las Vegas. RNS Photo by Kimberly Winston
Need to know: Monday, October 9, 2017
Sermon on the Strip: ‘Where is God?’
At worship this weekend, people of different faiths sought solace and answers to a question that may be unanswerable: why the mass shooting happened.
Princeton student ministry drops evangelical name after 80 years
The 80-year-old Princeton Evangelical Fellowship now calls itself Princeton Christian Fellowship, citing baggage surrounding the evangelical label.
Stoking Islamophobia and secession in Texas — from an office in Russia
An anti-Islam rally held during the presidential campaign was called and promoted by a Facebook page called Heart of Texas, which was operated by a "troll factory" in St. Petersburg, Russia.
E! News’ Ken Baker seeks and finds God in ‘The Ken Commandments’
In his new book, the celebrity journalist charts his path back to faith amidst the “me, me, me” culture of Hollywood.
In Las Vegas as before, spontaneous shrines bring healing after horror
The piles of flowers, teddy bears and candles recall sacred spaces created after terror attacks in New York, Madrid, London and elsewhere, and date back to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington.
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Religious objection order gives broad leeway to employers to drop birth control coverage
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Back from Puerto Rico, the Rev. Gabriel Salguero shares ways to help
The president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition traveled to the island to deliver water and generators, in hopes of buoying at least some of the millions deprived of life’s basics.
AG’s religious objection order undercuts LGBT protections
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an order that undercuts federal protections for LGBT people, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping directive to agencies Friday (Oct. 6) to do as much as possible to accommodate those who claim their religious freedoms are being violated.
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Taking on bigotry, the Air Force got it right this time
(RNS) — A rabbi and former Air Force chaplain cheers the strong anti-bigotry message delivered at the U.S. Air Force Academy last week, and remembers a similar message delivered at an air base in Japan some 40 years ago.
Testing the proposition that lack of religion leads to violence
The proposition fails.
First Look: Trump talks Israel on Mike Huckabee’s new TBN show
Trump's peace plan, the president says, will be decided "in the not-too-distant future" and "everybody says it is not going to work."
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