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News Articles: Religion

Hector Guerra, right and Juan Carlos Sanchez, from El Mariachi Continental, make their way to a funeral service in Donna, Texas on Aug. 21.

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  • National

A Priest, An Editor And A Mariachi Player Talk Life In The Rio Grande Amid COVID-19

Their work and lives have been upended in this region devastated by the coronavirus, and where poverty and preexisting conditions like diabetes, hypertension and obesity are prevalent.

September 09, 2020
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By:
  • John Burnett
GPB News NPR

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  • Religion

Black Pastor Wants His Mostly White Congregation To Understand Racial Justice

The racial justice movement asks what role white people should play in the struggle. Lenny Duncan's ministry tries to answer that question. He's a black pastor in the whitest denomination in the U.S.

September 09, 2020
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By:
  • Tom Gjelten
Virtual worship services announcement at United Methodist Church in Moscow, Idaho. The denomination, with some 13 million members worldwide, is experiencing a major internal rift over same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy.

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  • Religion

Georgia Church Leaves United Methodist Over LGBTQ Clergy, Same-Sex Marriage

Asbury Memorial Church in Savannah, which supports LGBTQ rights, announced Thursday that it would split with the United Methodists, becoming the first congregation in the country to do so.

September 03, 2020
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
Members of Savannah's Asbury Memorial Church pose with a rainbow-painted door that says "God's Doors are Open to All"

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  • Religion

Savannah Church Leaves United Methodist Church Over Same-Sex Marriage

Savannah's Asbury Memorial Church will now be non-denominational after leaving the Methodist Church over same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy.

September 03, 2020
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By:
  • Emily Jones
The work of French street artist Christian Guemy aka "C215" depicting members of satirical magazine <em>Charlie Hebdo</em> is painted on a facade near the magazine's offices at Rue Nicolas Appert in Paris, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attack of the magazine that killed 12 people.

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  • Religion

'Charlie Hebdo' To Reprint Muhammad Cartoons As Trial Linked To 2015 Attack Begins

The satirical weekly, whose Paris offices were stormed by Islamist extremists who killed several staff members, will reprint the controversial cartoons that apparently sparked the attack.

September 01, 2020
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  • Scott Neuman
A marble plaque over the main entrance of the Vatican Archives reads in Latin "Secret Vatican Archive." The Vatican's library on Pope Pius XII and his record during the Holocaust opened to researchers in March.

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  • World

Records From Once-Secret Archive Offer New Clues Into Vatican Response To Holocaust

The Vatican has long maintained that Pope Pius XII did everything he could to save Jewish lives, but newly unearthed papers have renewed accusations of complicit silence against him.

August 29, 2020
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By:
  • Sylvia Poggioli
Former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz speaks from Orlando, Fla., during the third night of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. Holtz questioned Democratic candidate Joe Biden's Catholic faith.

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  • Elections

Conventions Bring Sharper Faith Appeals From Both Parties

Some speakers at the Republican National Convention were as quick to question the faith beliefs of the Biden-Harris ticket as they were to defend those of their own candidates.

August 28, 2020
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  • Tom Gjelten
Devotees prepare to immerse in an artificial pond an idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesh in Mumbai, India, Aug. 23. India's coronavirus caseload topped 3 million that day, with the country leading the world in new daily infections.

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  • Asia

Hindus Work Around Coronavirus To Celebrate God Ganesh, Remover Of Obstacles

Mumbai officials get creative to allow devotees to celebrate the elephant-headed god safely, even as virus cases surge in other parts of India.

August 27, 2020
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By:
  • Lauren Frayer and
  • Sushmita Pathak
Jerry Falwell Jr. has told NPR that he has accomplished all he had hoped to do at Liberty University.

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  • National

'Free At Last,' Says Jerry Falwell Jr. After Resigning As Head Of Liberty University

In an interview with NPR's Sarah McCammon, Falwell expresses relief — and maintains that he has "not broken any rules" that apply to staff members at the university.

August 26, 2020
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By:
  • Samantha Raphelson,
  • Vanessa Romo,
  • and 1 more
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

Evangelical Voters Weigh In On What's At Stake In November's Election

Some evangelical voters had misgivings about President Trump ahead of the 2016 election. Four years later at the Republican National Convention, many say those doubts are gone.

August 26, 2020
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
GPB News NPR

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  • Religion

Political Conventions Show How Religion Is Playing A Role In Campaigns

Republican and Democratic conventions show that both parties are appealing to faith voters. They have mostly different target audiences, though Catholics are getting special attention this year.

August 25, 2020
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  • Tom Gjelten
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Jerry Falwell Jr.'s Role At Liberty University Is In Question

Jerry Falwell Jr. denies reports he resigned from Liberty University. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Aram Roston of the Reuters News Agency about the allegations involving Falwell.

August 25, 2020
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  • GPB Newsroom
GPB News NPR

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  • Politics

News Brief: Republican Convention, Wisconsin Protests, Jerry Falwell Jr.

Day 1 of the GOP convention rebutted the Democrats' convention. In Kenosha, Wis., peaceful protests end with fires and looting. And, Jerry Falwell Jr.'s role at Liberty University is in doubt.

August 25, 2020
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By:
  • David Greene and
  • Steve Inskeep
Jerry Falwell Jr. speaks at a Liberty University commencement in 2017 in Lynchburg, Va.

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  • National

Liberty University Doubles Down After Falwell Denies Reports Of His Resignation

Jerry Falwell Jr., has officially resigned as president of Liberty University, according to a university source. In an interview with Virginia Business, he contradicts the university official.

August 24, 2020
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
<em>Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife,</em> by Ariel Sabar

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  • Book Reviews

'Veritas' Asks How A Respected Scholar Could Be Duped By A Bumbling Fraudster

Author Ariel Sabar explores the lives of Harvard's Karen King and of Walter Fritz, the porn producer who convinced her the papyrus fragment he gave her — "The Gospel of Jesus's Wife" — was genuine.

August 19, 2020
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  • Tom Gjelten
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