Religion and Values
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PublishedApril 19, 2019
Photos: Portland church reenacts Stations of the Cross on Good Friday
The devotional exercise depicts Jesus Christ's condemnation and crucifixion on the Friday before Easter Sunday.
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PublishedApril 19, 2019
As Good Friday and Passover meet this year, interfaith families receive double blessings
When the springtime holidays fall on the same date, Jewish and Christian couples look for ways to combine them or celebrate them one after the other.
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PublishedApril 19, 2019
Atheist prayers can be barred by House chaplain, appeals court says
The co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation alleged the Rev. Patrick J. Conroy improperly rejected a request to have him serve as guest chaplain.
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PublishedApril 19, 2019
Christian pilgrims march through Jerusalem for Good Friday
The faithful carry wooden crosses high on their shoulders and sing hymns to mark one of Christianity's most solemn and sacred days.
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PublishedApril 18, 2019
Poll: Church membership in U.S. plummets over past 20 years
"Culturally, we are seeing significant erosion in the trust people have for institutions in general and churches in particular," a professor of the sociology of religion at Boston University said.
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PublishedApril 16, 2019
Hundreds at Portland cathedral pray for people of Paris in wake of Notre Dame fire
Bishop Robert Deeley offers a prayer ‘for the people of France whose temple of God's glory has been so marred by this destructive fire.’
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PublishedApril 12, 2019
Students at Mormon-owned BYU urge honor code compassion
Several hundred hold a protest to push college officials to be more forgiving of those who violate rules banning things such as drinking, premarital sex, beards and piercings.
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PublishedApril 12, 2019
Indonesia rejects appeal of woman imprisoned for blasphemy
The ethnic Chinese woman's complaint about the volume of mosque loudspeakers led to an 18-month prison sentence.
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PublishedApril 12, 2019
Vatican opens its own probe in decades-old missing girl case
It's investigating the case of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old Vatican citizen who disappeared in the summer of 1983.
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PublishedApril 12, 2019
Pope kisses feet of South Sudan’s leaders to encourage peace
The pontiff makes an unprecedented gesture of humbleness to close a two-day retreat for the African leaders.
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