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Connecticut clergy want truth on U.S. torture
June is Torture Awareness month, but the Rev. Alli Berry can't wait.
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The grieving mother stood weeping
Suspected Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been laid to rest. But Paul D. Keane, the Yale Divinity graduate, who offered Tsarnaev's family a burial plot in Hamden, Conn. in honor of his late mother stands by his offer.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev buried in undisclosed location
RNS) An undisclosed community on Wednesday (May 8) accepted the body of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, which is now “entombed,” according to police in Worcester, Mass.
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Church leaders tackle the stigma of mental illness
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) The Rev. Frank Page, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, was getting ready to work in the yard in the fall of 2009 when the phone rang. His daughter was on the line.
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50 years later, recalling the young ‘foot soldiers’ of civil rights
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) In May 1963, thousands of Birmingham school children faced police dogs, fire hoses and possible arrest to demonstrate against segregation. Now, 50 years later, those who were part of what became known as the “Children’s March” say they don’t want their story to be forgotten.
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As Holocaust Museum turns 20, the ranks of survivors dwindle
It won’t be long before no eyewitnesses remain.
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Americans: Marijuana isn’t sinful but not sure it should be legal
American views on marijuana are evolving much like their views on gay marriage, according to a new poll, with many people ambivalent but growing numbers in favor of legalization.
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Stabat Boston
I look down at my glass; and, for a moment, the red wine becomes the blood of the injured and dead, the blood of the bombers, the blood of Christ’s pierced side.
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Black pastors: Gun violence isn’t just a problem for white suburbs
WASHINGTON (RNS) Black clergy have launched a new coalition to fight gun violence, saying they are undeterred by the recent failure of legislation on Capitol Hill and all too aware of the problem of gun violence.
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Atheists rally around jailed Bangladeshi bloggers
(RNS) An international consortium of nonbelievers is planning rallies Thursday (April 25) outside Bangladeshi embassies and consulates to demand the release of several Bangladeshi bloggers who were arrested on charges of blasphemy.
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