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Reparations After Clergy Abuse Puts A Price On Trauma, Victims Say

7:39am November 22, 2019

by Laura Benshoff

Following the 2018 grand jury report in Pennsylvania, Catholic dioceses launched reparations programs. Hundreds of people have now received more than $50 million, but not all are satisfied.

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Lucía Cerna worked as a housekeeper at the José Simeón Cañas Central American University in El Salvador. On Nov. 16, 1989, she witnessed armed soldiers kill six Jesuit priests, a cook and a teenage girl.

'I Miss Them, Always': A Witness Recounts El Salvador's 1989 Jesuit Massacre

11:50am November 16, 2019

by Danny Hajek

Six priests became modern-day martyrs in one of the most high-profile religious crimes in recent Latin American history. A woman who witnessed the incident says the FBI pressured her to stay quiet.

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Vatican Hosts Tech Giants For Online Child Safety Conference

5:34am November 15, 2019

The Vatican is hosting a conference this week on promoting child safety online. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Joshua McElwee of the National Catholic Reporter.

'Who Is An Evangelical?' Looks At History Of Evangelical Christians And The GOP

4:34pm November 14, 2019

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Thomas Kidd, a professor of history at Baylor University, about the history of the relationship between evangelicals and political power.

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Evangelical Voters In N.C. Discuss Trump's Divisive Comments On Race

6:09pm November 12, 2019

by Audie Cornish

White evangelicals overwhelmingly support President Trump. But when a group of white and black evangelicals get in the same room, it gets complicated.

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Archbishop José Gomez, 67, was elected to lead the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Tuesday. He's seen here blessing a dog with holy water during the annual Blessing of the Animals ceremony in Los Angeles last year.

U.S. Catholic Bishops Elect Their First Latino President: Archbishop José Gomez

3:56pm November 12, 2019

by Bill Chappell

Gomez has been archbishop of Los Angeles, the largest Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S., for most of the past decade. He has been vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops since 2016.

Evangelical Christians On Faith And Politics

4:51pm November 11, 2019

In, Part 1 of a two-part conversation with evangelical Christians in Fayetteville, N.C. about faith and politics, we talk about issues on their minds and impeachment.

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Flanked by Buddhist monks, the Dalai Lama, 84, greets visitors in September at a prayer ceremony at his monastery in Dharamsala, India.

Who Will Decide On The Dalai Lama's Successor — His Supporters Or Beijing?

9:25am November 10, 2019

by Lauren Frayer

"The Dalai Lama's reincarnation is a civilizational struggle between China and Tibetans over who controls Tibetan Buddhism," says Amitabh Mathur, a former Indian government adviser on Tibetan affairs.

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A Hindu devotee waves an Indian national flag and celebrates a verdict in a decades-old land title dispute between Muslims and Hindus, in Ayodhya, India, on Saturday.

Indian Supreme Court Rules Disputed Territory Belongs To Hindus

5:47pm November 09, 2019

by Sushmita Pathak

The territory, in northern India, was the site of a 16th century mosque, torn down in 1992 by Hindu extremists. Judges paved the way on Saturday for a Hindu temple to be built there.

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The History Of Mormons In Mexico

5:02pm November 09, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Patrick Mason, professor of Mormon history and culture at Utah State University, about the history of Mormon communities in Mexico.