Pew Research Center

Religion & Public Life

August 02, 2019
Daily Religion Headlines
NEW FROM PEW RESEARCH CENTER
Compared with other Americans, U.S. Jews have relatively high levels of religious knowledge – including about non-Jewish religions like Christianity, Islam and Sikhism. But most non-Jewish Americans are unable to answer some basic factual questions about Jewish practices, including about the Jewish Sabbath and New Year. A Fact Tank post ([link removed]) explains.
U.S. Headlines
In his first public statement, Washington’s new Catholic archbishop slams Trump for ‘diminishing our national life’ ([link removed])
THE WASHINGTON POST*

Leaders of religious right balk at labeling Trump a racist ([link removed])
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Republican lawmaker disowned by county GOP after officiating same-sex wedding ([link removed])
THE WASHINGTON POST*

Presidential candidate Jay Inslee visits a Detroit mosque; talks Trump, Muslim ban, and BDS ([link removed])
MICHIGAN RADIO

A first at a century-old seminary: A black woman takes charge ([link removed])
THE NEW YORK TIMES*

New Jersey will allow terminally ill patients to end their lives ([link removed])
CNN

Radical Baptist church preaches LGBTQ hate just miles from California’s Capitol ([link removed])
LOS ANGELES TIMES*

Manischewitz is selling all of its kosher food business ([link removed])
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY


International Headlines
Change in Saudi law to permit women to travel without male ‘guardian’ ([link removed])
NPR

Death of Hamza bin Laden seen as blow to al-Qaida’s future ([link removed])
THE NEW YORK TIMES*

Uighurs challenge China to prove missing relatives are free ([link removed])
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Liberals fear unrest as Poland Catholic Church doubles down on anti-gay rhetoric ([link removed])
REUTERS

Jesse Jackson pays homage to Roma at Auschwitz ceremony ([link removed])
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

India accuses Pakistan-backed militants of targeting Hindu pilgrims in Kashmir ([link removed])
REUTERS

Yemen officials: al-Qaida kills at least 20 at military camp ([link removed])
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mayor of Mogadishu dies as result of al-Shabaab attack ([link removed])
THE GUARDIAN


Analysis & Commentary
For Marianne Williamson and Donald Trump, religion is all about themselves ([link removed])
THE WASHINGTON POST*

Tomorrow’s gods: What is the future of religion? ([link removed])
BBC FUTURE

The nuns who bought and sold human beings ([link removed])
THE NEW YORK TIMES*

More presidential candidates are visiting mosques than ever before ([link removed])
HUFFPOST

What rural Christians hear when the Democrats debate ([link removed])
THE WASHINGTON POST*

Archaeologists have searched for the Church of the Apostles for years. They say they’ve found it near the Sea of Galilee ([link removed])
CNN

Couples all over Instagram are ‘doing life together.’ Here’s where it came from ([link removed])
VOX


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