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(RNS) — American and Israeli Jews condemned a decision by Israel's Supreme Rabbinical Court to reject the authority of prominent New York Orthodox rabbi by forcing one of his converts to submit to additional questioning. Earlier this month the court, which is affiliated with the Chief Rabbinate, rejected the
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WASHINGTON (RNS) — Evangelical Christians converged on the nation's capital for a prayer rally on one of the hottest days of the summer. With the nation reeling from recent shootings and shocked by news of a terrorist attack in France and an attempted coup in Turkey, speakers at "
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(RNS) — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will be presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's running mate. Trump made it official Friday (July 15) — fittingly, in a tweet.
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(RNS) — A Harvard law professor who taught both President Obama and his wife, Michelle, told fellow members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church that his faith is helping him cope with a personal diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. "I've made up my mind to be thankful
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Donald Trump's campaign announced its new evangelical advisory board Tuesday (June 21) as the presumptive presidential nominee met with nearly 1,000 conservative Christians. The Evangelical Executive Advisory Board will convene regularly to "provide advisory support to Mr. Trump on those issues important to Evangelicals and other
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NEW DELHI (RNS) — Afreen Rehman, a 25-year-old Muslim woman, received a letter from her husband while visiting her parents in Jaipur earlier this year. In it were three words: "talaq, talaq, talaq"– or "divorce" three times in Arabic, thus ending their marriage of two years.
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NEW YORK (RNS) — Donald Trump's flagging presidential bid is enjoying a boost of that old-time religion after conservative Christian leaders gave the candidate high praise and standing ovations at a critical closed-door meeting that one observer described as a "campaign rally." Trump would look back on
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The Southern Baptist Convention, born in 1845 in a split over its support for slavery, has passed a resolution calling for Christians to quit using the Confederate flag. "We call our brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of