Ex-pope Benedict says he is in the last phase of his life

Can LGBT rights and religious rights coexist? Kim Davis-like case tests the waters
THE WASHINGTON POST*
Judge: Baker can refuse to make same-sex wedding cakes
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. prisons allow extremism to fester, study warns
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL*
Early chaos of Trump’s travel ban set stage for a year of immigration policy debates
THE WASHINGTON POST*
Draft DHS report called for long-term surveillance of Sunni Muslim immigrants
FOREIGN POLICY*
Beth Moore, Jen Hatmaker and other evangelical leaders are publishing a letter urging Trump, Congress to act on immigration
THE WASHINGTON POST*
‘I know that God will forgive me,’ the Nashville mayor says. But will the voters?
THE NEW YORK TIMES*
Peter Colapietro, ‘saloon priest’ who ministered to lowly and mighty, dies at 69
THE NEW YORK TIMES*
 

International Headlines

Poland's new ‘Holocaust law’ widely condemned in Israel
DEUTSCHE WELLE
Poland’s ‘death camp’ law tears at shared bonds of suffering with Jews
THE NEW YORK TIMES*
Ex-pope Benedict says he is in the last phase of his life
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Mashal Khan case: Death sentence for Pakistan ‘blasphemy’ murder
BBC NEWS
UN rights chief: Intolerance making inroads in Indonesia
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brazil police arrest sect members for enslavement
BBC NEWS
Pope praises joint Korean Olympic teams, Vatican willing to back peace initiatives
REUTERS
Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan is denied bail after rape charges
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
 

Analysis & Commentary

How past wounds fuel debate over Polish law
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Notre Dame switches its position on birth control coverage – again
THE ATLANTIC
A televangelist’s flu-season advice: ‘Inoculate yourself with the word of God’
THE WASHINGTON POST*
How Americans came to embrace meditation, and with it, Hinduism
THE CONVERSATION
 

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