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Texas board advances plan to allow Bible material in elementary school lessons

Texas board advances plan to allow Bible material in elementary school lessons

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' education board on Tuesday advanced a new Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for schools to incorporate in kindergarten through fifth grades, one of the latest Republican-led efforts in the U.S.
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Sean Rowe wants to realign the Episcopal Church

Sean Rowe wants to realign the Episcopal Church

(RNS) — Sean Rowe, the newly installed presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, knows a thing or two about austerity. As a boy, growing up in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, he saw Westinghouse Electric Corp. shutter its plant.
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Connecticut man comes forward with story of clergy sexual abuse in hopes of helping other victims

Connecticut man comes forward with story of clergy sexual abuse in hopes of helping other victims

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Duane Gray says the priest at his Connecticut parish began sexually abusing him around 1974, when he was 12 years old. He told his parents, but they didn't believe it and beat him repeatedly.
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Texas board advances plan to allow Bible material in elemetary school lessons

Texas board advances plan to allow Bible material in elemetary school lessons

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' education board on Tuesday advanced a new Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for schools to incorporate in kindergarten through fifth grades, one of the latest Republican-led efforts in the U.S.
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'Tis the season for holiday albums, from Jennifer Hudson to Toby Keith and Jimmy Fallon

'Tis the season for holiday albums, from Jennifer Hudson to Toby Keith and Jimmy Fallon

NEW YORK (AP) — It's not the holiday season until the house is full of festive music, from classics to covers and reimaginations across genres, for all to enjoy.
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Pakistani police arrest a man accused of insulting the Quran and save him from being lynched by mob

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Police arrested a man accused of insulting Islam's holy book, the Quran, in deeply conservative northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday after being alerted that a mob wanted to lynch him, police said.
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Thousands of Indian Sikhs visit the shrine of the founder of their religion to mark his birthday

Thousands of Indian Sikhs visit the shrine of the founder of their religion to mark his birthday

KARTARPUR, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Sikh pilgrims from India and around the world thronged a shrine to the founder of the Sikh religion, Guru Nanak, in Pakistan on Tuesday to commemorate his birth, officials said.
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Thousands of Indian Sikhs visit the shrine of the founder of their religion to mark his birthday

Thousands of Indian Sikhs visit the shrine of the founder of their religion to mark his birthday

KARTARPUR, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Sikh pilgrims from India and around the world thronged a shrine to the founder of the Sikh religion, Guru Nanak, in Pakistan on Tuesday to commemorate his birth, officials said.
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Abuse survivors urge the Vatican to globalize the zero-tolerance policy it approved in the US

Abuse survivors urge the Vatican to globalize the zero-tolerance policy it approved in the US

ROME (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged the Vatican on Monday to expand its zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S.
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Texas proposal would give schools the option to use Bible teachings in lessons

Texas proposal would give schools the option to use Bible teachings in lessons

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas public schools could use teachings from the Bible in lessons as an option for students from kindergarten through fifth grade under a proposal that drew hours of testimony Monday and follows Republican-led efforts in other s
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