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Judge puts stop to school preventing Christian free speech
A judge approved a permanent injunction against a North Carolina State University (NCSU) policy in a win for a Christian group whose free speech rights were being infringed upon.
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Pool’s women-only hours challenged as discriminatory
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City municipal pool that maintains female-only hours so that Hasidic Jewish women can swim with no men present has raised alarms among critics who say the accommodation violates the constitutional separation of church and state as well as laws against discrimination by sex. But
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In sign of unity, Christians renovate Christ’s tomb together
JERUSALEM (AP) — A team of experts has begun a historic renovation at the spot where Christians believe Jesus was buried, overcoming longstanding religious rivalries to carry out the first repairs at the site in over 200 years. The project, which began Monday, will focus on repairing, reinforcing and preserving the
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Vatican summit of judges pledges aid in trafficking fight
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Judges and prosecutors from around the world pledged Friday to crack down on human trafficking and help victims of modern-day slavery in the latest Vatican initiative to draw attention to the problem and rally resources to fight it. At a Vatican summit of judges, prosecutors and other
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Rodney Stark challenges anti-Catholic historical tropes in latest release
Any person, moderately informed on a topic of current interest, will have experienced the Brandolini law, which can be paraphrased as: the amount of energy necessary to refute a false claim is an order of magnitude bigger than what it took to produce it. And if that individual happened to
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Church-going women live longer, Harvard study shows
BOSTON – Does attending church give you a longer life? A Harvard University study shows a significant proportion of women who went to services more than once a week lived longer than those who never attended religious services. For the Nurses' Health Study, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan
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Momentum builds for Lowell Middle East relief effort
Leaders from the Lowell region and beyond are gathering this Sunday to honor the persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East. A growing number of local politicians and church representatives will meet at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in what promises to be the largest event of its kind in
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Dorothy Day: From bohemian to beatitude
Of all the modern examples of holiness, Dorothy Day may well be the most approachable. During her bohemian years, she had a number of affairs, an abortion, lived out of wedlock, attempted suicide twice, and became a radical socialist. But all the while she longed for deeper meaning, with an
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