News Wrap: Trump’s latest travel ban blocked by federal judge
16 Aug
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News Wrap: Trump’s latest travel ban blocked by federal judge

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Top Stories Tamfitronics JUDY WOODRUFF: The president answered by saying, "At some point, I fight back, and it won't be pretty."In turn, McCain said, "I have faced tougher adversaries."In Afghanistan, Taliban bombings and shootings left at least 74 people dead today. The worst was Paktika province in the east, where two car bombs killed dozens, including the provincial police chief, and wounded more than 100 others. Taliban militants also staged attacks in the south and west of the country.In Syria, militia forces backed by the U.S. say they have retaken the Islamic State group's de facto capital. The city of Raqqa had been under ISIS control since 2014. The battle to recapture...
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Why Catholic bishops rocked out to megachurch worship hits
16 Aug
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Why Catholic bishops rocked out to megachurch worship hits

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — In mid-July, Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts, was transformed into a place of worship as more than 50,000 Catholics gathered for the National Eucharistic Congress.The stadium full of young people, nuns in an array of habits and priests in black and brown faced an altar adorned with four candlesticks and a golden monstrance displaying a consecrated host for Eucharistic adoration.Then there were the Catholic bishops and other worshippers in the stands, hands raised in worship like Pentecostals, singing “How Great Is Our God,” a megachurch-style worship anthem, as a church rock band played on stage. That song was one of several Protestant-style worship songs sung at the Eucharistic Congress. Others included “Way Maker,” Build My Life,” “Come to the Altar” and “Praise,” the latest hit from Elevation,...
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Faith groups are mobilizing thousands to march outside the DNC
16 Aug
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Faith groups are mobilizing thousands to march outside the DNC

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — Jameeleh Shelo, a Palestinian American and a native of Chicago, plans to march alongside thousands of others outside the Democratic National Convention next week to protest the party’s stance on Israel.Shelo, who is Muslim, will join people of various faiths and no faith to demand that the party end U.S. aid to Israel, which has carried out a 10-month war on Gaza that has so far killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.A series of massive protests outside Chicago’s United Center, where Vice President Kamala Harris will accept her party’s nomination (Democrats already officially nominated Harris in a virtual vote of delegates), are planned for every day of the convention, Aug. 19-22.“People of all faiths are coming together to stop what’s happening in Gaza,” said Shelo, 41, a documentary filmmaker whose...
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