Religion
Christians pray at a discount: Muslim prisoners charged more for religious texts
A PA Post review of county jails' commissaries finds that Muslim prisoners meet financial barriers to practicing their religion.
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‘It’s getting very scary’: Hasidic Jews change routines amid anti-semitic attacks
The streets of Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood are usually busy with Hasidic families coming and going.
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United Methodist Church announces proposal to split over gay marriage
The United Methodist Church announced a proposal to split the denomination over what it called "fundamental differences" regarding same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy.
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Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists
Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry.
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Pennsylvania dioceses offer $84M to 564 clergy abuse victims
Seven of the state’s eight dioceses launched victim compensation funds in the wake of a landmark grand jury report on sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.
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Notre Dame rector: Fragile cathedral might not be saved
The rector says experts must first remove scaffolding that was on the cathedral before the fire, because the scaffolding is threatening the vaults.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg inducted into Philly Jewish museum’s hall of fame
The Supreme Court member connected her strives for justice to religious tradition.
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Listen 1:28A majority of Americans believe religion should be involved in society but not in politics. This hour, we discuss the intersection between religion and politics.
Air Date: December 19, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 49:01Anti-Semitism order raises tough issue of defining prejudice
President Donald Trump’s order to expand the scope of potential anti-Semitism complaints on college campuses is raising the stakes of an already tense battle.
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Possibility of female deacons gives some catholics hope
Elsie McGrath is an unlikely renegade. For much of her life, the 81-year-old tried to avoid confrontation and follow the rules.
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Pennsylvania’s sexual abuse laws leave survivors conflicted
When Pennsylvania overhauled its child sexual abuse laws after a years-long battle, absent from the bill-signing ceremony were some of the people who had worked hard.
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TikTok unblocks N.J. teen who posted on China’s Muslims
Chinese-owned video app TikTok says it has unblocked a U.S. teenager and restored her viral video condemning China’s treatment of its Muslim minority.
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Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work
The classified documents lay out the Chinese government’s deliberate strategy to lock up ethnic minorities even before they commit a crime.
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The man behind China’s detention of 1 million Muslims
Newly revealed, confidential documents show that the official, Zhu Hailun, played a key role in planning and executing a campaign that has swept up a million or more Uighurs.
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Clergy abuse reparations are closure for some victims, resurface trauma for others
After more than a decade of investigations into sexual abuse in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church, last year's grand jury report still contained new revelations.
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