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Religious News From Around the Web March 2, 2020

02 Mar 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

Biblical Plague, Give up Phones for Lent?, Minister Farrakhan, Thich Quang Do, SCOTUS to hear Catholic Foster Case, Boko Haram, Coronavirus and Hajj Give up Phones for Lent? Pope Francis suggested...

Politics, Religion and the Principled Life

26 Feb 2020
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Sam Field

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch,” said Benjamin Franklin. Democracies had failed in the past, blown to pieces by demagogues inflaming raging passions, the majority...

Religious News from Around the Web, Feb 9th 2020

10 Feb 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

Coronavirus, Church and State, Romney and White Horse, 200 Years of Christianity, Baxter Black, Blessing of the Nukes, Chinese Ban Funerals Christians Help in Coronavirus Hot Zone Christians in Wuhan,...

Religious News from Around the Web, Feb 3rd 2020

03 Feb 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

Iran vs. Religion, Mass Wedding, Same-Sex Adoption, Religious School Funding, Christians Released, Should Churches Report Child Abuse? William Barr Warns of Militant Secularism, Catholic Schools in Trouble 80...

How a Priest Made Kobe Bryant’s Life Better

29 Jan 2020
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Nathan Glover

In 2016, WRN published a story about how Kobe Bryant's faith helped him withstand and move past difficult times personally and professionally. We reprise this story now in memory of one of the truly great...

Identity and Religion: The War Against the Spirit

15 Jan 2020
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Sam Field

Who are you? What is your identity? Are you your name, your family, your car, your bank account, the language you speak or the accent with which you speak it? Are you that body by which people identify...

Religious News From Around the Web, Jan 13th 2020

13 Jan 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

Giving Machines, Blaine Amendment, Religious Court Cases, Confessional Confidentiality, Taliban Destroyed now Repaired, Jewish and Muslim Women Meet, ERA is Dead Latter-day Saints Giving Machines Raise...

Top Religious Stories? Is This the Best You Can Do?

Movie Review: The Two Popes (two reviews)

23 Dec 2019
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WRN Editorial Staff

The Two Popes - Netflix Starring: Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce Director: Fernando Meirelles Review By Charlotte Odenson Inspired by true events, this beautifully shot film dramatizes...

WRN News from Around the Web: Obama Rule Repealed, Church Demolition, Assisted Suicide, Transgender, Kung Fu Nuns, Empty Heavens

11 Nov 2019
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WRN Editorial Staff

Kung Fu Buddhist Nuns The Druk Amitabha Mountain Monastery in Kathmandu has long promoted gender equality and the empowerment of women. Since 2008, Buddhist nuns have been trained there in kung fu for self-defense,...