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  • Watch His Conscience0

    The date was June 5, 1917, the first day of the draft. Sousa’s Band struck up &”Stars and Stripes Forever&” and the 6,000 in attendance at the American Medical Association Convention in New York City rose to their feet as former president Theodore Roosevelt walked across the stage. The United States had tried to avoid

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  • Faith in World's Newest State0

      This country belongs to all of us,&” affirmed President José Ramos-Horta of East Timor, adding with a smile, &”Heaven, of course, may be divided up.&” It was a lighthearted way of pointing out that there is full religious freedom under the constitution, and all religions are free to pursue their faith goals. East Timor

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  • The European Holy Wars0

    This article is part three in a four part series. Read Part 2 Read Part 4 The second part of this five-part series on Europe’s wars of religion told the story of how, from the 1520s until approximately 1650, the greatest nations in Christendom—France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Sweden, the Dutch Republic, and Britain—were all caught

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  • Eighth Annual Religious Liberty Dinner0

    Without freedom of religious expression, no discussion of life’s fundamental questions—&”What is the meaning of life?&” and &”What are my rights and obligations?&”— is complete, a United States congressman said at this year’s Religious Liberty Dinner. &”It is my hope that the ‘marketplace of ideas’ always allows space for faith and religion—not to dominate, not

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  • No Safe Forum0

    The way President Barack Obama sees things, Americans should be able to find unity in prayer—even if they disagree on the details of faith and politics. That’s true in the current debates about health care, poverty, and even gay marriage, he said at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast. &”Surely we can agree to find common

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  • "Give Us This Prayer"0

    It wasn’t supposed to work like this. An atheist organization filed a lawsuit earlier in the year challenging the National Day of Prayer as a violation of the establishment clause. The hope was that, if the organization won, the suit wouldn’t be challenged by the Obama administration. After all, a liberal democratic president (a &”socialist,&”

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