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DOJ asks appeals court to allow churches to endorse political candidates (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! (RNS) — Department of Justice lawyers have asked a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court decision that kept an IRS ban on nonprofits endorsing candidates in place— the latest development in a decades-long battle over whether pastors and houses of worship should be allowed to endorse political candidates. In a brief filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Monday (Sept. 21), lawyers f
Sri Lankan court sentences 15 men to life in prison for roles in deadly 2019 Easter bombings (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A Sri Lankan court convicted 15 men on Tuesday for helping to organize the 2019 Easter bombings on churches and hotels that killed 267 people, sentencing them each to at least 200 years in prison after a trial that lasted more than five years. Another nine men were freed after being acquitted of similar charges in the same trial. The April 21 attacks, which were inspired by the Islamic St
Suspect in Yom Kippur shooting outside Ontario synagogue dies from his injuries (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! BELLEVILLE, Ontario (AP) — A 29-year-old man suspected of opening fire on a police officer stationed outside an Ontario synagogue during Yom Kippur has died from his injuries, the province’s police watchdog said Tuesday. Belleville police identified the man as Sean Ward of Quinte West. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit, an independent civilian agency that investigates police shootings, said Ward died Monday ni
Priests, nuns march to Vatican to demand end to 'genocide' in Gaza (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! ROME (AP) — Some 150 Catholic priests and friars, a bishop and nuns from around the world marched to the Vatican and prayed Tuesday in front of St. Peter’s Basilica to call for an end to what they called the “genocide” in Gaza. The protesters carried a banner down the main boulevard leading to the Vatican bearing the names of 300 children who died during Israel’s war in Gaza and southern Lebanon. The marchers didn
Meryl Streep as Narnia's Aslan: Why some evangelicals call it blasphemy (opens the original)
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Get RNS’ thoughtful, essential religion reporting every morning. Sign up for free! (RNS) — For some conservative Christian fans of C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, the idea of God being portrayed as a lion is fine. News that three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep would voice Aslan — the Jesus figure at the center of Lewis’ bestselling series in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming adaptation of “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” — led to confusion, anger and disappointment on social media, with some evangelical
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