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Durango Dharma Center to host talk about compassion

Rebecca Bradshaw, guiding teacher at the Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley and Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, will give a talk, “Four Faces of Compassion: Mary, Tara,...

DATE: Aug 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Why Native Americans struggle to protect sacred places

Forty years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the American Indian Religious Freedom Act so that Native Americans could practice their faith freely and that access to their sacred sites would be ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Church president: Use ‘Latter-day Saints’ not ‘Mormon’

SALT LAKE CITY – The faith has the famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir, recently made a documentary about its members called “Meet the Mormons” and uses “Mormon” in its official website addresses...

DATE: Aug 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Church sex scandal: Abuse victims want a full reckoning

Six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania joined the list this week of those around the U.S. that have been forced to face the ugly truth about child-molesting priests in their ranks. ...

DATE: Aug 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pennsylvania priests abused over 1,000 children, report says

HARRISBURG, Pa. – A priest raped a 7-year-old girl while he was visiting her in the hospital after she’d had her tonsils removed. Another priest forced a 9-year-old boy into having oral sex,...

DATE: Aug 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Judge won’t toss claim against Mormon church in rape case

SALT LAKE CITY – A woman’s lawsuit claiming she was raped by a Mormon church leader who was allowed to oversee young missionaries despite a history of sexual misconduct will go forward, a ju...

DATE: Aug 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Evangelist seeks prayer for yoga-practicing Oregon governor

SALEM, Ore. – The evangelist Franklin Graham recently asked thousands of people at an Oregon rally to pray for the state’s Democratic governor, saying she should be a Christian. Y...

DATE: Aug 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Death penalty decree could be quandary for U.S. politicians

Pope says option ‘inadmissible’ in all cases

DATE: Aug 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Michigan attorney set to be first Muslim woman in Congress

DETROIT – Rashida Tlaib’s opposition to President Donald Trump began while he was still candidate Trump and before she decided to run for Congress. The 42-year-old attorney, who i...

DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Muslim candidates run in record numbers but face backlash

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – A liberal woman of color with zero name recognition and little funding takes down a powerful, long serving congressman from her own political party. When Tahi...

DATE: Aug 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Jewish teens enlisted to fight anti-Semitism in Germany

LUCKAU, Germany – Sophie Steiert opens a bag of kosher gummy bears and offers them to 20 other German teenagers seated around her in their high school classroom. “They’re really y...

DATE: Aug 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope rules out death penalty in change to church teaching

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has decreed that the death penalty is “inadmissible” under all circumstances and the Catholic Church should campaign to abolish it, a change in church teaching th...

DATE: Aug 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion