The more frequently a household attends worship services, the more likely its members donate to religious institutions and give generously, new research shows. “Most strikingly, those attending religious services once a month or more make an average annual religious contribution of $1,848, while those attending religious services less than once a month donate $111,” says […]
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USAMore than a hundred Tennessee interfaith leaders have joined forces to condemn a white supremacy movement they say “cloaks itself with Christianity” in the wake of “White Lives Matter” rallies expected for the weekend in Shelbyville and Murfreesboro. The leaders banded together to prevent a repeat of the events that took place in Charlottesville, where
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USABy Stuart Winer Israel’s ambassador criticized a United Nations human rights official Thursday for urging economic and travel sanctions against Israel to force a withdrawal from the West Bank. Danny Danon said the United Nations Human Rights Council had “lost its legitimacy,” after the comments by Canadian law professor Michael Lynk, who is the council’s
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International, Middle EastMK Yoav Ben Tzur (Shas) told Arutz Sheva on Thursday that his party would work to enact a law that would ban supermarkets in Israel from being open on Shabbat, in response to a Supreme Court ruling approving the opening of supermarkets in Tel Aviv on Shabbat. The ruling, which was the final ruling handed
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York–In 2017, the total population of the world is estimated at around 7.5 billion. At our present growth rate, the world population will reach 9.8 billion by 2050. Is this a positive or negative prospect? Some disturbing numbers are easily found online: *795 to 842 million members of the world’s
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Arkady Mamaysky, International, The World We ShareParliaments in Barcelona and Madrid are preparing for the next step in the Catalonia crisis as positions on both sides of the independence row become even more deeply entrenched. After rejecting a call to explain himself before the Senate in Madrid, Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and his cabinet met for a seven-hour meeting Wednesday night
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InternationalIvanka Trump and Jared Kushner Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary on Wednesday, and the first daughter and assistant to the president took to Instagram to commemorate the occasion. “Happy eight-year anniversary to the love of my life!” she wrote alongside a photo from the couple’s wedding day, which features a
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USAWASHINGTON — The congressional subcommittee led by California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is being heavily monitored by GOP leaders because of allegations the congressman has been overly influenced by his connections to Russia. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce will be “more involved in guiding the direction” of the subcommittee that is in part
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International, USAIn rallying the nation against drug addiction Thursday, President Trump spoke in unusually personal terms about the death of his older brother Fred from alcoholism, and about the lesson it holds for him in the value of abstinence. To an audience at the White House, Mr. Trump recalled his older brother as a “great guy.”
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USAKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has a new Breitbart column out, and in it he cites a man whom the Southern Poverty Law Center has called a member of the Holocaust denial movement. Kobach’s piece makes the case that immigrants commit a disproportionate share of crimes. He uses a San
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USAFeeling trapped and facing a barrage of propositions years ago in Harvey Weinstein’s hotel room, Ashley Judd says, she made a deal with the now-disgraced producer: She would say yes to his sexual advances after she won an Academy Award for one of his films. He countered with after she was nominated for one. She
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe Trump administration is floating a 40-percent hike in gas taxes to fund a $1 trillion infrastructure package, a regressive tax that would disproportionately hurt the low- and middle-income Americans who comprise the president’s political base. Gary Cohen, whom President Donald Trump appointed as director of the National Economic Council, raised the idea when he
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USAMegyn Kelly made an appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” where she recalled her time at FOX News and called out Billy O’Reilly as someone that sexually harrassed her. “It was time to tell that story,” Kelly said on the late night show. “I take no pleasure in discussing Fox News in that way
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAPolitical journalist and author Mark Halperin was pulled Thursday from his contributor’s role at MSNBC after a report that he sexually harassed five women during his tenure at ABC News. Five women who worked with Halperin when he was political director of ABC News in the early 2000s told CNN that he propositioned them or
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