The pastor’s release came a day after Canadian officials confirmed that a delegation had traveled to North Korea to discuss his imprisonment.
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Top US bishop urges Trump to quickly act to ease contraceptive mandate
Cardinal DiNardo lamented that after three months no steps have yet been taken to erase the HHS mandate since Trump’s pledge ease the mandate.
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Trump picks Gov. Sam Brownback to be religious freedom ambassador. Here’s what that means.
The role was created in 1998 and is charged with helping the U.S. government promote global religious freedom.
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Court rules church did not discriminate based on gender, affirms right to hire employees who ‘advance faith’
A court ruled unanimously that the New York Archdiocese did not discriminate against a school principal when it chose not renew her contract.
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Suit aims to block a law requiring pregnancy centers to ‘advertise’ abortion
The law compels Hawaii’s six pregnancy care centers to post or distribute information referring clients to state-provided prenatal services that would include contraception and abortion.
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After protests over Satanic memorial, city nixes all religious symbols
Two days after hundreds of people—many of them Catholic—descended on Belle Plaine to protest the installation of a Satanic memorial in the city’s veterans park, the City Council voted unanimously to nix all religious symbols there.
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USCCB: Retain open internet ‘by strongest legal authority available’
The USCCB is “concerned that the FCC is contemplating eliminating current regulations limiting the manner by which the companies controlling the infrastructure connect people to the internet,” said USCCB assistant general counsel Katherine
Grincewich.
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Church opposes new plans to regulate religious practice in South Africa
The director of Freedom of Religion South Africa, Michael Swain, said that government had no business “meddling with religion.”
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In Myanmar, one girl’s plight epitomizes Rohingya struggle
Frail and severely malnourished, she looks a lot like every other underfed child here—until you realize she’s not really like any of them at all. A tiny girl with big brown eyes, Rosmaida is 4—but barely the size of a 1-year-old.
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Religious freedom supporters are applauding Supreme Court decision on Lutheran school
The high court, in a 7-2 ruling in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, sided with the religious school.