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Missouri doctors to be present with patients when administering abortion-inducing drugs

The Missouri legislature passed a bill requiring doctors to be physically in the same room as patients when administering abortion-inducing drugs, such as Mifepristone, or RU-486. Another bill passed prevents pharmacies from being required to carry specific drugs – including those that induce abortions. 
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Troubled Missouri diocese to pay $600,000 abuse settlement

| May 16, 2013

The Catholic diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph led by Bishop Robert Finn, who was convicted last year of failing to report a priest who was taking pornographic pictures of children, will pay a $600,000 settlement to the family of one of the priest's victims.
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Americans: Marijuana isn’t sinful but not sure it should be legal

| Apr 25, 2013

American views on marijuana are evolving much like their views on gay marriage, according to a new poll, with many people ambivalent but growing numbers in favor of legalization.
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Mosque arsonist Randolph Linn sentenced to 20 years

| Apr 18, 2013

An Indiana truck driver and former Marine was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to pay $1.4 million for setting fire to an Ohio mosque, a crime that the judge likened to Monday's Boston Marathon bombings as "assaults on the American spirit."
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Tax or fee? Pastors push back against city’s ‘annual registration fee’

| Apr 16, 2013

(RNS) City officials in East St. Louis say a new $100 “annual registration fee” will help defray the costs of building safety inspections. Pastors, however, say it’s a tax by another name, and possibly unconstitutional.
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Imprisoned Iranian-American pastor gets push from State Dept.

| Mar 27, 2013

Secretary of State John Kerry is calling for the release of an Iranian-American minister from a Tehran prison, a welcome step for advocates who had accused the State Department of being "AWOL" on the case.
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Lesbian provisions prompt Catholic bishops to oppose Violence Against Women Act

| Mar 8, 2013

(RNS) Key U.S. Catholic bishops are objecting to portions of the Violence Against Women Act, which they say attempt to subvert traditional views of gender and marriage, and fail to protect the religious freedom of aid workers. 
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Did gun control prevent Jews from stopping the Holocaust?

| Feb 6, 2013

(RNS) As gun control moved toward the top of the American agenda after the Dec. 14 massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, gun rights activists began to invoke a curious analogy: the Holocaust.
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One nation under God?

| Feb 6, 2013

Ever since I can remember, I’ve heard about the “separation of church and state,” buzzwords imprinted on my mind. But the problem with such buzzword phrases is that they imply a simplicity to issues that are anything but. They imply that we live in a world of black and white, when we actually spend almost all of our lives in various grey areas.
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New Vatican sex abuse prosecutor praises media

| Feb 6, 2013

The new Vatican prosecutor for sexual abuse cases in the Catholic Church praised the media’s role in uncovering the scandal.
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Arkansas Senate OKs guns in churches

| Jan 30, 2013

The Arkansas Senate has passed a bill that lifts a ban on carrying concealed weapons in church.
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