Martha Hennessy, a granddaughter of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was sentenced Friday (Nov. 13) to 10 months in prison for breaking into Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia.
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Five faith facts about Kamala Harris
Few, if any, presidential candidates have had as much exposure to the world’s religions as Kamala Harris.
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Jesuit priest is sentenced to time served after 2018 break-in at nuclear naval base
Rev. Stephen M. Kelly, a 71-year-old Jesuit priest, was sentenced by a U.S. District Court judge to 33 months in jail, three years’ probation and restitution fees for his role in a symbolic nuclear disarmament action.
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Mark Galli, former Christianity Today editor and Trump critic, to be confirmed a Catholic
For a few days last December, Mark Galli was perhaps the most well-known evangelical in the country – after penning an editorial calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal from office and arguing he was “profoundly immoral.”
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Kamala Harris is the future of American religion
Kamala Harris’ selection as the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee has prompted discussion about her ethnic and religious background and what it means for the future of religion in the United States.
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Survey: Most Americans aren’t comfortable going back to religious services
The results of the survey suggest that despite political pressure to reopen houses of worship—from President Donald Trump as well as leading conservative Christians and religious liberty advocates—Americans aren’t quite ready to take a seat in a sanctuary.
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Martin Gugino is a Catholic peace activist, not an ‘Antifa provocateur,’ friends say
A tweet from President Donald Trump drew a wave of shock and outrage from friends of Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old activist who was shoved to the ground by Buffalo police during a protest outside City Hall.
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New report finds white supremacist propaganda on college campuses doubled in 2019
The report found a total of 2,713 cases of leafleting on and off campus — an average of more than seven per day— nationwide, compared with 1,214 in 2018.
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Pew report: Older U.S. Christians being quickly replaced by young ‘nones’
The United States is steadily becoming less Christian and the number of people with no religion is rising.
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These Catholics broke into a nuclear base. Now they’re asking a judge to drop the charges.
The activists, known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, are charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor and face up to 25 years in prison each for trespassing on the U.S. Navy base that houses six Trident submarines carrying hundreds of nuclear weapons.