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Need to know: Monday, July 11, 2016
After the shootings, Dallas clergy will pray, then advocate for change
The Rev. George Mason says transformation is needed not only in local communities but across the nation.
Dallas residents look to churches for hope and answers in wake of police deaths
People filled the churches of this rattled city looking for something that even the pastors preaching to them struggled to offer: answers.
A Saudi morals enforcer called for a more liberal Islam. Then the death threats began
He argued that much of what Saudis practiced as religion was in fact Arabian cultural practices that had been mixed up with their faith.
Hillary Clinton addresses recent shootings at African Methodist Episcopal Church convention
Clinton told the crowd that after the 24-hour news cycle has moved on from this issue, she won't.
‘Godspot’: German churches now offer free and secure wifi hotspots
A group of evangelical Protestant churches in east Germany plan to provide free internet in 3,000 churches and religious buildings.
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Possible Trump VP pick supports abortion rights
WASHINGTON -- Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, under consideration by Republican Donald Trump as a possible vice presidential choice, said on Sunday he favors a woman's right to choose whether to have an abortion.
After a painful week for police and protesters, Obama says America is united
"There is sorrow. There is anger. There is confusion about the next steps.," the president said. "But there is unity in recognizing that this is not how we want our communities to operate."
Report: Islamic State lost quarter of its Iraq, Syria territory in 18 months
BEIRUT (Reuters) The territory controlled by ISIS shrank from 35,000 square miles in January 2015, six months after it declared a caliphate in Syria and Iraq, to 26,370 square miles, the research firm said.
Two Rwandan pols found guilty of slaughter inside a Catholic church
(RNS) A French court sentenced the former politicians to life in prison for masterminding the killing of 2,000 people taking refuge in the church during the country’s 1994 genocide.
Film explores hidden history of World War II: the rape of nuns
(RNS) A long-hidden World War II atrocity gets attention in an acclaimed new film.
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‘Convulsive ingatherings’ and the reaction against immigrants
The immediate occasion for the present chaos, is reaction against immigrants, immigration, and governmental elites which have not found or chosen ways to convulsively ingather people into “clusters” of “separatenesses.”
Why do people support police using force? Religion is part of the answer
Videos of police shootings (again) divide public opinion. Here's how religion shapes views of police.
Who’s not defending Mississippi’s religious freedom law
The leading promoters of the New Religious Freedom.
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