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Members of Michigan's Chaldean community rally against religious persecution in Iraq in 2010.

After Fleeing Persecution, U.S. Christian Refugees Now Face Deportation

5:00am July 08, 2017

by Tom Gjelten

The Trump administration's efforts to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally is bad news for Christian refugees who could be returned to the countries where they were persecuted.

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Christians Seeking Refuge May Get Caught Up In Trump's Deportations

9:06am July 07, 2017

by Tom Gjelten

Efforts by the Trump administration to deport immigrants who have come to the U.S. illegally is likely to impact Christian refugees who face persecution in their home countries.

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Hobby Lobby Agrees To Renounce Smuggled Iraqi Artifacts

10:12pm July 06, 2017

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Candida Moss, professor of New Testament at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Bible Nation: The United States of Hobby Lobby. After Hobby Lobby was fined for smuggling artifacts out of Iraq, Moss talks about Hobby Lobby's unique business mission: to promote the bible.

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Haroon Moghul is a fellow in Jewish-Muslim relations at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

'How To Be A Muslim' Author On Being A Spokesperson For His Faith

8:09pm July 06, 2017

by Terry Gross

"Professional Muslim" Haroon Moghul says, "Every time something bad happens you're called upon to apologize. ... Your entire identity is pegged to events in other parts of the world."

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Religion

Objects Of Devotion: Tracing Religion In Early America

12:45pm July 05, 2017

Religion has never been simple in the United States, and there's a lot more to the stories we learned in school.

California Beach Party Brings Together Ex-Believers

4:48pm July 04, 2017

by Luke Vander Ploeg

When people leave religious groups, they sometimes feel adrift. Some formerly faithful folks in Southern California are looking for ways to build community specifically for ex-believers.

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News Brief: Trump CNN Tweet Is Criticized, Latest Vatican Shake-Up

8:42am July 03, 2017

It seems President Trump's frustration with his party and the news media is growing. At the Vatican over the weekend, the cardinal who headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was ousted.

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Cardinal To Defend Himself Against Sexual Abuse Charges In Australia

6:25am July 03, 2017

A close aide to Pope Francis has been charged with sexually abusing children. Steve Inskeep talks to Thomas Doyle, a former Catholic priest and now a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter.

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In Fighting Abuse By Members Of Catholic Church Clergy, Victim Sees Resistance To Change

8:08am July 02, 2017

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro discusses the Catholic Church's response to its sexual abuse scandal with Marie Collins, who recently resigned from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014.

Pope Francis Replaces Conservative Top Theologian

10:47pm July 01, 2017

by Maquita Peters

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller was ousted as the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on Saturday. Days earlier another top official left to face charges of sexual abuse.