President Trump wants to repeal the code banning all federally recognized nonprofit organizations—including religious organizations—from endorsing political candidates.
Religious Freedom
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Trump says he will roll back political limits on churches
The president made no mention of steps he may take on religious freedom, saying only that it is a “sacred right.”
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No future for Christians in Mosul, says Iraqi Christian leader
“Christians aren’t going to come back to stay. The churches I saw were not destroyed with bombs, but by the everyday business operations of the community.”
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How rabbis are responding to white supremacist threats
Students will visit the Auschwitz concentration camp and a Torah is being mailed every Jewish family in the state.
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Why one U.S. bishop will advocate differently for Iraqi religious minorities
The Iraqi Catholic clergy do not want to see a safe corridor set up for Christians.
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Five Stories You May Have Missed in 2016
Here are a few pieces America editors wish had made it on to those top-ten lists but didn’t:
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‘Catholics must be patriots’ in China to end divide with Vatican
The ruling Communist Party has long feared that opposition to its rule could be spread by religious and other civic groups outside its control.
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In Christmas messages, Middle East patriarchs call for peace amid Christian persecution
Cardinal Bechara Rai, patriarch of Maronite Catholics, appealed to the international community to work to end terrorism “that is killing and displacing families and depriving them of their rights and dignities.”
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Egypt mourns for 25 Christians killed in church bombing
Those killed were mostly women and children. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack on Sunday.
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Genocide, crucifixion and rape: What Christians are facing in the Middle East
“I am very aware that my ethnicity is dying.”