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Trump administration should use key diplomatic tools for religious engagement
By Susan Hayward — February 17, 2017
(RNS) By overemphasizing the links between Islam and extremism, the administration has fueled Muslim anger, obscured the complex roles that religious institutions play in global affairs and ignored important lessons from the past.
Thou shalt not speak alternative facts: religion and lying
By Kimberly Winston — February 16, 2017
(RNS) The three Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- weigh in on the spiritual and moral consequences of telling a whopper.
Reading Trump’s mind on anti-Semitism
By Mark Silk — February 16, 2017
So what if he didn't answer the question?
Jewish groups dismayed by Trump’s response to anti-Semitism question
By Lauren Markoe — February 15, 2017
(RNS) The reporter asked about rising anti-Semitism in the U.S. The president's answer — or seeming lack of one — angered many prominent Jewish Americans.
Pope appears to back native tribes in Dakota pipeline conflict
By Yonat Shimron — February 15, 2017
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) While he did not name the pipeline, he used clear language applicable to the conflict, saying development had to be reconciled with "the protection of the particular characteristics of indigenous peoples and their territories."
Trump retains LGBT State Department official, frustrating Christian conservatives
By Lauren Markoe — February 15, 2017
(RNS) Once again, Trump and religious conservatives don't see eye to eye on LGBT rights. A sign of things to come?
The problem conservative religious people should have with Trump
By Mark Silk — February 13, 2017
It's essential.
Vietnamese refugee priest to Trump: Give my citizenship to a Syrian
By David Gibson — February 11, 2017
(RNS) The Catholic priest, who fled to the U.S. from war-torn Vietnam as a youth, wrote the president asking that his citizenship be given to a refugee barred under Trump’s Muslim travel ban.
Ken Starr on shortlist to head Office of International Religious Freedom
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 10, 2017
(RNS) Others rounding out the short list for the position include Nina Shea and Johnnie Moore.
Trump’s executive order religiously discriminatory, Appeals Court suggests
By Mark Silk — February 10, 2017
A trial on the merits is probably next.
500 prominent evangelicals take out full-page ad supporting refugees
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 9, 2017
(RNS) Christians are called to love their neighbors as themselves, and that includes "the stranger and anyone fleeing persecution and violence," according to the letter.
Don’t build walls, Pope Francis says
By Reuters — February 8, 2017
(Reuters) The Argentine-born pontiff did not mention President Trump or that specific wall in his comments.
Literary agents ISO Muslim authors
By Lauren Markoe — February 7, 2017
(RNS) 'Literary agents are in a unique position to help contribute to bringing more empathy, compassion, understanding and tolerance into this world through books,' the agents explain.
Trump’s order violates Establishment Clause, say 18 states
By Mark Silk — February 7, 2017
And they make an excellent point.
The ’Splainer: What is the Free Speech Fairness Act?
By Kimberly Winston — February 6, 2017
(RNS) Legislation introduced in Congress aims to 'restore' religious liberty in the pulpit. Will it? Let us 'Splain ...
