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Jimmy Carter's jibe at Trump in Liberty University address
The former US president, Democrat Jimmy Carter, spoke at Liberty University, a bastion of Republican conservative Christianity, on Saturday, in a counter-intuitive pairing that saw him warmly applauded by the commencement audience.
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Helpless and dependent: Why do we struggle with a vulnerable Jesus?
So where does Jesus fit into this question of vulnerability? Was he vulnerable? Is he vulnerable?
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Catholic home accused of allowing 'illegal' adoptions
A Catholic-run home in Northern Ireland has been accused of 'illegal' cross-border adoptions after allegations emerged it had shipped babies overseas against their mother's will.
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27 US cities identified as 'abortion deserts' due to lack of abortion clinics, study finds
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has found that as many as 27 cities in the U.S. can be classified as "abortion deserts" because there are no clinics for women who want to terminate their pregnancy.
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Preaching Michael Curry-style: How long should a sermon be?
Leave alone the content of Michael Curry's sermon at the Royal wedding â most people loved it, some hated it â what seems to have wound some people up is its length.
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Clapping at communion: How bread and wine became symbols of hope
Sometimes the sheer sadness of a care home seems to engulf me â the brutality of what a combination of life and age does to people.
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Anne Frank: Hidden diary entries reveal the secrets in all of us
For anyone who has kept a personal diary, the thought of it selling 25 million copies worldwide and being translated into 70 languages would be a living nightmare.
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Cuba plane crash: 20 evangelical pastors among the 110 dead
Twenty evangelical pastors were among the 110 dead after a plane crash in Cuba left only three survivors.
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Church of Scotland takes another step towards allowing same-sex marriages
'From those of us who want to uphold the traditional and orthodox teaching of the Church, it is possibly as good an outcome as we could expect.'
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Justin Welby: Curry's Royal wedding sermon 'blew the place open'
The archbishop of Canterbury has praised the sermon preached by Most Rev Michael Curry, primate of the Episcopal Church in the US (TEC), at the Royal wedding yesterday.
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Venezuela's Maduro expected to defeat opposition split by evangelical pastor
The 55-year-old former bus driver is expected to win despite his unpopularity.
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Oscar Romero, Paul VI to become saints in October
They will be made saints along with two priests and two nuns, the Vatican said in a statement.
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Trump Jr offered campaign help by Gulf princes' emissary in 2016
The meeting was a chance for the envoy to offer help to the Trump presidential campaign, according to The New York Times.
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Texas school shooter 'non-emotional', lawyer says
The teenager, identified by law enforcement as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, has been charged with capital murder.
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Conservative leader Tony Perkins named as newest addition to US Commission on International Religious Freedom
Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council (FRC), has been appointed to a position at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an independent federal government board that monitors violations of religious rights across the world.