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As Boston buries its dead, more evidence gathered
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston area held funerals for two more of its dead Tuesday — including an 8-year-old boy — as more details emerged from U.S. officials and family members about how the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects may have...
Tags: Religion and Belief, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mich. courts weigh suits against right-to-work law
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Several courts are weighing a host of legal questions about Michigan's right-to-work law, including how it was passed and how it will affect tens of thousands of public workers, however, none were expected to issue rulings...Tags: Bill Schuette, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Rick Snyder, Politics
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Judge: Teacher can sue Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese in IVF case
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an Indiana woman who says a Catholic diocese fired her from her teaching job because she had in vitro fertilization. U.S. District Judge Robert Miller cleared the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Christianity, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Roman Catholicism
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Ohio Amish face unfamiliar life in federal prison
CLEVELAND (AP) — Sixteen Amish men and women who have lived rural, self-sufficient lives surrounded by extended family and with little outside contact are facing regimented routines in a federal prison system where almost half of inmates are...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Defendants, Prosecution, Elkton, Hate Crimes
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Mich. GOP consider concealed firearms for teachers
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Some Republican lawmakers are reintroducing measures to allow guns in Michigan schools. Kewadin Republican Rep. Greg MacMaster introduced a bill last month to let local school officials allow teachers, administrators or...
Tags: Rick Snyder
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Mich. Gov. Rick Snyder vetoes gun legislation
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have allowed concealed weapons in churches, schools and daycare centers, days after a mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that weighed heavily on his mind....
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Firearms, Teaching and Learning, Crime, Law and Justice, Rick Snyder
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No Hanukkah song at Mich. Catholic school concert
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A Catholic schools administrator in Traverse City has dropped a Hanukkah song from a Christmas concert. Mike Buell of Grand Traverse Area Catholic Schools says he doesn't have a problem with Jewish music. But he says...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Parochial Schools, Christianity, Religious Education, Roman Catholicism
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Bill would require Christian prayer in Indiana's public schools
WSBT TVIt's a place many parents send their children to learn – but should public school classrooms also be a place for faith? What if just Christian faith is promoted? Northern Indiana Senator Dennis Kruse, a Republican, is sponsoring a bill that would...Tags: Religion and Belief, Teaching and Learning, Science and Technology, Freedom of Religion, Politics
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Indiana lawmaker wants 'Lord's Prayer' in schools
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Republican state senator is pushing for Indiana's public school students to start the school day by reciting the Lord's Prayer amid what he calls an "attack" on religion in the schools. Senate education committee chairman...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Teaching and Learning, Politics, Freedom of Religion, Public Schools
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Mich. Gov: Gun bill to give 'extra consideration'
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder pledged Monday to take a close look at legislation that could allow concealed weapons in schools and churches following the massacre at a Connecticut elementary school that evoked painful memories of a fatal...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Teaching and Learning, Rick Snyder, Executive Branch, Politics
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Ind. justices weigh largest school voucher program
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Supreme Court justices weighing the legality of the nation's largest school voucher program made clear during a packed hearing Wednesday that the program's fate may rest on whether it primarily benefits students'...Tags: Religion and Belief, Economy, Business and Finance, Teaching and Learning, Tony Bennett, Judges
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1st Native American saint stirs pride, skepticism
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Some traditional Mohawks are treating the naming of the nation's first Native American saint with skepticism and fear that the Roman Catholic Church is using it to shore up its image and marginalize traditional spiritual...Tags: National Government, Religion and Belief, Canada, Christianity, Smallpox
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