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Photo Slideshow: “Realize the Dream” – a glimpse into the March on Washington 50th anniversary commemoration 26 Aug 2013 | 11:32 pm
(RNS) Tens of thousands of people — led by clergy, civil rights veterans and activists — gathered in the nation’s capital on Aug. 24, 2013 to remember the 1963 March on Washington. They listened to sp...
Court says atheist was wrongly jailed over religious rehab 26 Aug 2013 | 11:24 pm
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) An atheist parolee should be compensated by California after the state returned him to prison for refusing to participate in a religiously-oriented rehabilitation program, a federa...
Secretary denies God told Benedict XVI to resign 26 Aug 2013 | 10:48 pm
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The personal secretary of former Pope Benedict XVI denied that the pontiff resigned as a consequence of a “mystical experience” in which God “told me” to step back from the papacy. ...
N.C. governor allows anti-Shariah bill to become law 26 Aug 2013 | 10:35 pm
(RNS) North Carolina became the seventh state to prohibit its judges from considering Islamic law after Gov. Pat McCrory allowed the bill to become law without formally signing it. Muslims across Nor...
N.Y. Freethought Trail traces nonbelievers who chartered a historic course 26 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
Elizabeth Cady’s Stanton’s “Declaration of Sentiments” are engraved in a granite waterfall at the National Women’s Rights Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y. where it is part of The Freethought Trai...
N.J. gay conversion therapy ban challenged in federal court 26 Aug 2013 | 09:27 pm
(RNS) New Jersey’s newly enacted ban on gay-to-straight conversion therapy for minors violates a licensed therapist’s obligation to “respect the rights of clients to make decisions,” according to a fe...
COMMENTARY: Change is still going to come 26 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
(RNS) Any reflection on the March on Washington and the civil rights movement makes it clear that everything has changed. Yet the sad reality is that many things have not changed. People gather at th...
Monday’s Religion News Roundup: King’s March * Night Thievery * Miley’s Moment 26 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
A Thief in the Night film (via http://bit.ly/1c9miV0) Wednesday will mark the 50th anniversary of the “March on Washington.” Scholars say it would be a mistake to celebrate King’s “I Have a Dream” sp...
Latest measles outbreak tied to Texas megachurch 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Doctor Tabor enters a health center to give inoculations against measles to a group of children (West Virginia). Photo courtesy Library of Congress This image available for Web publication. For quest...
Quote of the Day: Evangelist Billy Graham 26 Aug 2013 | 06:52 pm
“I felt like slashing their throats. But anyway, God be with you.” – Evangelist Billy Graham, in a recently released 1973 phone call with President Nixon, about CBS News’ coverage of Nixon’s speech o...
