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Need to know: Thursday, January 26, 2017
Refugee ban, border wall: Religious leaders respond
Trump’s actions touched on issues religious leaders have spoken out about: his proposed wall along the Southern border, sanctuary cities and refugees from Syria and other Muslim countries.
Pope Francis blesses sculpture celebrating culture of welcome for migrants
The pontiff has again expressed his closeness and concern for migrants and refugees by blessing a sculpture to be placed in the port of the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, the gateway to Europe for hundreds of thousands fleeing poverty and violence.
Can the March for Life heal antiabortion activists’ divide over Trump?
The tension leaders faced over their differing views on Trump threatened a movement that has long been unified over its common cause of fighting abortion rights.
Does Trump’s presidency signal the end of the ‘American Century’?
A 1917 speech to Congress by President Woodrow Wilson that concluded with a quintessential religio-political reference is the seedbed from which ‘American exceptionalism’ and ‘indispensability’ sprang.
Trump’s Hindu, Sikh and Muslim power brokers
Three men who supported Trump, despite their ethnic and religious communities' distaste for the president, find themselves with the ear -- for now -- of the president.
Rabbi of Venice’s storied Jewish community fights for Jews to return
'The community is becoming more and more of a museum,' said Rabbi Scialom Bahbout. 'We need a city that is alive.'
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Knights of Malta head resigns on Pope Francis’ orders after dispute with Vatican
Grand Master Matthew Festing had been locked in a bitter dispute with the Vatican over the firing of another leader of the ancient chivalric order.
The changing nature of America’s irreligious explained
Who really are the nones?
Pope Francis calls on media to end ‘constant focus on bad news’
The pope said he wanted to encourage media professionals to engage in “constructive forms of communication that reject prejudice” and help create a world of “realism and trust.”
More views from RNS
Why even the worst cancer news won’t push me to try every treatment
(RNS) Not all potential life is equally valuable to me.
I was Maimonides’ ghostwriter (and other alternative facts)
We are now living in the kingdom of lies.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Donald Trump: What can we learn?
A social psychologist argues that how we responded to the controversy of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing at Donald Trump's inauguration reveals the fault lines of how different kinds of people view the world.
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Bonus tracks
- Mark Shriver goes in search of Pope Francis, and gets more than he bargained for
- The secret Jewish life of Mary Tyler Moore
- These Monks Have A Calling: Making Fresh Italian Cheese — In India
- ‘Carpool Karaoke’ with Trenton’s Bishop O’Connell
- Charlie Liteky, a chaplain who relinquished Medal of Honor in peace protest, dies at 85
