The Cabinet has agreed that a referendum should be held later this year on removing the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution. Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan brought a proposal to Tuesday’s meeting seeking approval to proceed with the referendum, which is expected to be held in October. It would likely take place at the same time […]
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With its members arguing for and against physician-assisted dying, the American Medical Association voted yesterday to continue to review its stance on the issue. A recommendation that the AMA maintain its opposition to medical aid-in-dying was voted down, with delegates at the group’s annual meeting in Chicago voting to continue to review its guidance on
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This year was always going to be a controversial one for the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, which takes place Tuesday and Wednesday in Dallas. From the public outcry surrounding former president Paige Patterson, who was fired from his post as head of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary after making a series of remarks that
Republicans’ attempts to repeal the Johnson Amendment aren’t over yet. For more than a year now, Donald Trump has promised the Religious Right that he would sign a repeal of the rule, which forbids places of worship from endorsing political candidates if they want to keep their tax exempt status. If he were to rescind it, Christian
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During this weekend’s annual Road to Majority Conference, Faith and Freedom Coalition chairman and Religious Right activist Ralph Reed told attendees that Republican leaders in the Senate have been working with him to place a repeal of the Johnson Amendment in a “must-pass bill” before the end of this Congressional session. A provision in the
The Indiana Republican Party voted to keep language defining marriage as being “between a man and a woman” in its platform, rejecting language meant to be more inclusive of same-sex couples. Members at the GOP state party’s convention on Saturday overwhelmingly voted to keep the language first adopted under then-Gov. Mike Pence (R) in 2014, the Times
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About one in six women in the United States name a Catholic facility as their go-to hospital for reproductive health care. But more than a third of these women are unaware that their hospital is Catholic, according to a survey revealing an “information gap” about Catholic hospitals, where religious rules dictate access to contraception, sterilization, and abortion services.
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According to disturbing reports out of Bangladesh, atheist poet and publisher Shahzahan Bachchu was shot to death today in the town of Kakaldi. There were five assailants on two motorcycles, the [Superintendent of Police Jayedul Alam] said. Shahzahan had gone to meet friends at a pharmacy near his home before iftar, when the assailants came into the area. They blasted a crude
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Newly installed NASA Administrator James Bridenstine said the agency will — and should — continue to monitor the Earth’s carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming, marking another break from many of the conservative lawmakers with whom he once served. Two weeks after telling a Senate panel he now believes human activity is the primary source of
Some private schools in Florida that rely on public funding teach students that dinosaurs and humans lived together, that God’s intervention prevented Catholics from dominating North America and that slaves who “knew Christ” were better off than free men who did not. The lessons taught at these schools come from three Christian publishing companies whose
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