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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Religion & Public Life


** Daily Religion Headlines
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** U.S. Headlines
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Justice Department to seek death penalty for Tree of Life suspect Robert Bowers PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE* ([link removed])
LDS Church makes it clear: No guns in its meetinghouses THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE* ([link removed])
Russell Moore: Southern Baptist churches must prevent sexual abuse, care for victims THE TENNESSEAN* ([link removed])
In Mississippi Delta, Catholic abuse cases settled on cheap THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ([link removed])
Pleas that Trump deport Iraqi Christians to safer country go unmet POLITICO ([link removed])
Judge denies order letting unvaccinated kids go to school THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ([link removed])
Trailblazing sociologist of religion Wade Clark Roof dies at 80 RELIGION NEWS SERVICE ([link removed])

Appealing to Orthodox Jews, Trump hotel in D.C. offers kosher cuisine THE JERUSALEM POST* ([link removed])



** International Headlines
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Hungary’s Orban hopes a rabbi can save his country’s controversial new Holocaust museum THE WASHINGTON POST* ([link removed])
India’s widows, abused at home, have sought refuge in this holy city for centuries THE NEW YORK TIMES* ([link removed])
Bangladesh to remove the word ‘virgin’ from Muslim marriage certificates AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE ([link removed])
Sri Lankan Islamic clerics seek clarity on face veil ban THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ([link removed])
Dutch doctor faces trial in landmark euthanasia case BBC NEWS ([link removed])
China ban on some textbooks seen as aimed at Uighur culture THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ([link removed])
Interfaith group pledges to use religion’s influence to address climate change, poverty RELIGION NEWS SERVICE ([link removed])
U.S. State Department says removal of ‘Palestinian Territories’ from website isn’t policy change CNN ([link removed])



** Analysis & Commentary
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The Catholic nun who helped change how America thinks about the death penalty is not done yet VOX ([link removed])
What economics is for FIRST THINGS* ([link removed])
A visit with the Dalai Lama THE WALL STREET JOURNAL* ([link removed])
A letter to the Protestant church about sex abuse: We are not safer THE WASHINGTON POST* ([link removed])

The Family: ‘Raised in a doomsday cult, I entered the real world at 15’ BBC NEWS ([link removed])



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