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Editorial Roundup: North Carolina
Recent editorials from North Carolina newspapers: ___ Oct. 13 The Greensboro News & Record on indoor worship services in North Carolina: Those odd-looking, animate objects you’re beginning to see again in the stands at college and pro football games are called people. Time was when actual human beings...
Rockwell's 'Four Freedoms' exhibit back in Massachusetts
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — An exhibition that celebrates Norman Rockwell’s depictions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms is returning to Massachusetts after a six-city international tour. “Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom” is going back on display at the Norman...
GOP lawmakers seek to keep Louisiana pastor from prosecution
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Republican Louisiana lawmakers trying to chisel away at Gov. John Bel Edwards' coronavirus restrictions Wednesday sought to protect a Baton Rouge area pastor charged with violating those rules and advanced legislation that would keep emergency orders from governing churches. The...
For Coptic Church, changes, questions after priest ouster
For 17 years, Sally Zakhari said she told priests and leaders in the Coptic Orthodox Church her childhood nightmare — how a Coptic priest visiting from Egypt sexually abused her at her Florida home during what was supposed to be her first confession. “I’ve already gone to countless bishops....
Supreme Court wrestles with Muslims' suit over no-fly list
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Supreme Court that has been friendly to religious interests took up a case Tuesday involving Muslim men who claim their religious rights were violated when they were placed on the government’s no-fly list because they refused to serve as FBI informants. The justices, in arguments...
Lawsuits challenge Virginia's sexual orientation protections
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A conservative legal group has filed lawsuits challenging a new Virginia law that bars discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The lawsuits filed this week in state and federal court by Alliance Defending Freedom argue that the new law infringes on their...
Pikeville schools respond to graduation prayers complaint
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Pikeville Independent School District is considering whether prayers can be allowed at graduation ceremonies after receiving a letter of complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation, WYMT-TV reported. The Wisconsin-based group said it received complaints following the...
Senate race pits political scion against TV-savvy Republican
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A Latino congressman and mainstay of Democratic politics in northern New Mexico is vying for an open U.S. Senate seat against a television-savvy Republican challenger with household name recognition as a former network meteorologist based in Albuquerque. The race between U.S. Rep. Ben...
Atheist advocacy group sues state over religious voter oath
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An atheist advocacy group has filed a lawsuit against Alabama's secretary of state, claiming a mandatory religious oath on voter registration forms is unconstitutional. A Wednesday news release from The Freedom From Religion Foundation said Alabama is the only state that requires...
Pompeo, Vatican clash over China after tensions spill out
ROME (AP) — The U.S. and the Vatican butted heads over China on Thursday as the Holy See chafed at U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s public call to take a harsher stance against Chinese restrictions on religious freedom. The State Department sought to play down the differences, but tensions...
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