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Across multiple fronts, Democrats and their allies are stiffening their resistance to a surge of Republican-led book bans. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the…
Read more The Book-Bans Debate Has Finally Reached a Turning PointCOLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — As monks chanted prayers in Saint John’s University church, members of the student LGBTQ organization, QPLUS, were meeting in their lounge at the Minnesota institution’s…
Read more LGBTQ students wrestle with tensions at Christian collegesBALTIMORE — Even as they signaled a continued hardline stance on opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, the nation’s Catholic bishops acknowledged Wednesday that they’re struggling to reach a…
Read more US Catholic bishops worry about abortion views in the pewsNEW ORLEANS, La. — The United Methodist Church, a mainstay of the American religious landscape, has cut ties with 58 churches in its Louisiana conference amid a nationwide…
Read more Louisiana churches leave Methodist denomination amid schismThe United Methodist Church moved toward becoming more progressive and LGBTQ-affirming during U.S. regional meetings this month that included the election of its second openly gay bishop. Conservatives…
Read more LGBTQ-friendly votes signal progressive shift for MethodistsATLANTA — Jane Fonda says the work of the Georgia-based nonprofit organization she founded to prevent teenage pregnancies has become “far more important” in the months since the…
Read more Jane Fonda: Nonprofit’s work ‘far more important’ after RoeHAVANA — Two former beauty queens, Fabiola Valentín of Puerto Rico and Mariana Valera of Argentina, announced this week that they had secretly married. The joint Instagram post…
Read more Miss Puerto Rico, Miss Argentina announce they are marriedMEXICO CITY — Lawmakers in the border state of Tamaulipas voted Wednesday night to legalize same-sex marriages, becoming the last of Mexico’s 32 states to authorize such unions.…
Read more Same-sex marriage is now legal in all of Mexico’s statesUTHAI SAWAN, Thailand — Hundreds of mourners and victims’ families gathered Tuesday evening to watch flames burn from rows of makeshift pyres at cremation ceremonies for the young…
Read more Families bid farewell as Thai massacre victims are crematedALLENTOWN, Pa. — A malfunctioning heater sent a dangerously high level of carbon monoxide into a Pennsylvania day care center early Tuesday, sickening dozens of children — some…
Read more Carbon monoxide leak at day care center sickens kids, staffUnited Methodists have for generations been a mainstay of the American religious landscape — one of the most geographically widespread of the major Protestant denominations, their steeples visible…
Read more United Methodists are breaking up in a slow-motion schismHAMILTON, Miss. — State regulators are investigating after a video showing four day care employees scaring children at a facility in an unincorporated northeast Mississippi community went viral…
Read more Mississippi day care employees fired over viral videosMUSKEGON, Mich — A Michigan judicial candidate is facing domestic assault charges partly based on video footage suggesting he hit his girlfriend repeatedly with a belt, prompting local…
Read more Domestic violence charge casts shadow over judge’s raceUTHAI SAWAN, Thailand — Grief-stricken families prayed Saturday morning at a Buddhist temple filled with children’s keepsakes, flowers and photos of the smiling toddlers who were slain as…
Read more Mourners pray at Thai temple filled by children’s keepsakesLOS ANGELES — A court filing Tuesday from Angelina Jolie alleges that on a 2016 flight, Brad Pitt grabbed her by the head and shook her then choked…
Read more Jolie details Brad Pitt abuse allegations in court filingLOS ANGELES — A Southern California man who was accused of killing his estranged wife and abducting their 15-year-old daughter had been living with the teenager out of…
Read more Teen had been staying with father before mother’s slaying
