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Kansas City Star
February 21, 2018
The school was left-leaning and openly dismissive of religion, and Graham was insecure — he had no advanced theology degree. After he was introduced, ... says," was his catch phrase. But he won over audiences worldwide with his friendliness, openness, humility and unyielding religious conviction.
Kansas City Star
February 20, 2018
Tabandeh has had close relationships with liberal activists. Earlier on Monday, Sufis had rallied in front of a police station ... Sufis are a branch of Islam that emphasizes direct mystical experience over mainstream religious practices. While they have been influential in many Muslim countries in history, theyÃÂ ...
Windy City Times
February 13, 2018
Detectives discovered that evidence was missing while recently re-examining the 1978 fatal stabbing of a 25-year-old Black gay political activist named ... in Johnson County that could result in one of them becoming the first openly gay member of the Kansas legislature., the Kansas City Star reported.
Kansas City Star
February 12, 2018
Not far away, Kyaw Min, a well-known Rohingya activist and president of the Democracy and Human Rights Party, brandishes the newspaper photos of ... Few local NGOs or Buddhist activists will stand up for the Rohingya, but Ajas said he and others are trying to talk with liberal Buddhists and otherÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
February 12, 2018
Asma Jehangir, one of Pakistan's most prominent right activists and lawyers, died on Sunday of a heart attack in the eastern city of Lahore at the age of 66, her daughter said. News of ... A champion of human rights, Jehangir was unafraid to speak loudly against those attacking minority religions and women.
Kansas City Star
February 11, 2018
In a story Feb. 12 about her death, The Associated Press misspelled the name of Asma Jahangir as Jehangir. A corrected version of the story is below: Pakistani leading rights activist, Asma Jahangir, dead at 66. Asma Jahangir, one of Pakistan's most prominent right activists and lawyers, has died of a heartÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
February 9, 2018
Barber, a powerful speaker who meshes current events, history and religious passages in his calls for actions, is a difficult act to follow. ... Speakers include David Goodman, the brother of Andrew Goodman, who was 20 years old when he and two other civil rights activists were ambushed and killed by KuÃÂ ...
fox4kc.com
February 8, 2018
Weaver, a health care activist, calls her daughter amazing. ... conduct policy,” which says, “You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.
Salon
February 7, 2018
ya-embed-logo In 2013, Claudia Amaro made national headlines as part of the Dream 9, a group of nine undocumented activists from Mexico who demanded to be let into the United States and granted asylum. In 2018, she is making local headlines again for her activism in Wichita, Kansas, the place sheÃÂ ...
The Macomb Daily
January 30, 2018
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, which operates student activist groups at around 1,100 schools nationally, said the disagreements at the ... Religious environmental activists have urged the broadening of the term “pro-life” to include policies that affect water and air quality, which in turn canÃÂ ...
CBS News
January 30, 2018
"He's going to pull votes from the Democratic side," said Tom Witt, a party activist and executive director of the LGBT-rights group Equality Kansas. ... term as governor last summer, shortly after President Donald Trump nominated Brownback as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom.
The Morning Sun
January 30, 2018
Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, which operates student activist groups at around 1,100 schools nationally, said the disagreements at the ... Religious environmental activists have urged the broadening of the term “pro-life” to include policies that affect water and air quality, which in turn canÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
January 30, 2018
Government air strikes and shelling of ethnic Kachin rebels in northern Myanmar have killed five civilians and wounded more than a dozen others since the weekend, a lawmaker and activists said Tuesday. The government offensive has also trapped more than 3,000 other civilians, miners of amber andÃÂ ...
Sight Magazine
January 26, 2018
Mr Brownback is the first ambassador under the US's revised International Religious Freedom Act, which affirms a commitment to international religious freedom as a foreign relations policy. Mr Brownback, 60, ran for president in 2008 and has been serving as the Republican Governor of Kansas. While inÃÂ ...
Amherst Bulletin
January 25, 2018
BELCHERTOWN — Julius Lester, a renowned author, musician, activist and photographer who taught for three decades at the University of ... He grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, and later Nashville, Tennessee, where in 1960 he received an English degree from the historically black Fisk University.
Vox
January 25, 2018
Barton has also headlined the 2013 Kansas Prayer Breakfast during Brownback's time as governor. Meanwhile, Barton is best-known for a series of books, including Original Intent: The Courts, The Constitution, and Religion and The Jefferson Lies, that argue America was founded by evangelical ChristiansÃÂ ...
The Intercept
January 19, 2018
The New Sanctuary Coalition's work builds on a movement begun by religious congregations in the 1980s to support Central American refugees in defiance of Reagan-era immigration policies. Grounded in religious congregations, the movement relies in part on the government's reluctance to send lawÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
January 19, 2018
Kansas archbishop to take lead role in Catholic fight against abortion ... Naumann's election has excited anti-abortion activists, including those in Kansas. ... Although the march is open to people of any religion, its president and others have called Catholics the backbone of the march and the pro-lifeÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
January 18, 2018
HHS put on a formal event in the department's Great Hall, with Republican lawmakers and activists for conscience protections as invited speakers. The religious and conscience division will be part of the HHS Office for Civil Rights, which enforces federal anti-discrimination and privacy laws. Officials said itÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
January 17, 2018
So she called Nora Sandigo, an immigration activist who has accepted responsibility for 1,250 children, becoming an essential part of emergency planning for ... Sandigo, a deeply religious woman who makes frequent references to God and Jesus, gets more involved if the parents are detained or deported.
Word and Way
January 17, 2018
“Free speech is under assault in America,” Jerry Johnson, president of the National Religious Broadcasters, declared at a press conference in Washington, ... also previously taught at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Mo.
Christian News Network
January 17, 2018
Atheist Activist Group Wants Santa Fe Ten Commandments Monument Moved to Private Property ... “One the government confers endorsement and preference for some religions over others, it strikes a blow at religious liberty, forcing taxpayers of all faith and of no religion to support a particular expressionÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
January 16, 2018
Activist Nyo Tun spent 10 years as a political prisoner locked away by Myanmar's military in the notorious Insein prison, where he endured beatings and ... Most alarming to many observers is the support the military has gained from the very activists and former political prisoners who once campaigned forÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
January 15, 2018
Raised in New York in a non-religious, "dysfunctional" family fractured by divorce, he was a decided atheist by the late 1960s while he and his high school ... "a time of great upheaval and change," particularly with the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.,ÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
January 14, 2018
By week's end, Trump was signing a King holiday proclamation with the martyred activist's nephew at his side. ... This is the type of thing, activists, religious leaders and scholars say, that puts Trump's presidency in direct conflict with the legacy of King, who was assassinated April 4, 1968 while trying toÃÂ ...
GetReligion (blog)
January 11, 2018
This piece at FreeBeacon.com shed some light. Catholic leaders and human rights activists are blasting Democrats for delaying the confirmation of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to a State Department post aimed at protecting the freedom of people around the world to practice the religion of their choice.
Riverfront Times (blog)
January 9, 2018
He was so full of violent religious fervor it wouldn't be an exaggeration to refer to him as the "Usama bin Laden of Europe.” Devout followers of ... In 2017 St Louis removed the statue in Forest Park honoring the Confederacy after local activists (myself included) put heavy pressure on Mayor Lyda Krewson.
CNN
January 9, 2018
... Ricahrd Grenell, the conservative activist chosen as ambassador to Germany; Jerome Powell, Trump's Federal Reserve chairman nominee; and Sam Brownback, the former Kansas governor tapped to serve as ambassador at large for religious freedom. The list also includes several judicial picks and topÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
December 30, 2017
As governor of Indiana, in 2015, Pence signed a bill called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that “essentially legalized discrimination against homosexuals by businesses in the state,” the New Yorker reported. He signed it as anti-gay activists stood at his side. Reactions to the rainbow flag near hisÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
December 28, 2017
... said the organization was opposed to the practice of instant divorce but argued against the government or courts interfering in religious laws. He said the board was in favor of leaving the divorce issue to the Muslim community to tackle. But several progressive Muslim activists decried the board's position.
Kansas City Star
December 25, 2017
The priest was charged with forced religious conversion, an accusation frequently leveled against Christians in India. ... Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party doesn't condone the violence against Muslims, Christians and others, but activists say it needs to do more to stop it. "It is notÃÂ ...
Religion News Service
December 19, 2017
But there are also other religions in the mix. One of my dear ... To use religious terminology, I feel so very blessed by my new associations. If I believed in the kind of ... If there's one lesson that I still believe in from my old days of religion, it's this: every death brings a new life. The death of the old me led to theÃÂ ...
ThinkProgress
December 12, 2017
On Monday, the Senate voted along party lines to advance Leonard Grasz, a staunchly conservative religious activist whom Donald Trump nominated to a ... the Alliance for Justice and quoted in a contemporaneous report in the Kansas City Star, which is available through the research service LexisNexis.
Kansas City Star
December 31, 1999
But it does lay out a vast and wide-ranging Russian effort to sway political opinion in the United States through a strategy that involved creating Internet postings in the names of Americans whose identities had been stolen; staging political rallies while posing as American political activists and payingÃÂ ...
The Michigan Daily
December 31, 1999
Raised in a conservative, Christian home, and is also openly gay, Steph White came from a small town of Kansas, . ... Donald Trump and the Department of Health and Human Services have proposed, which would allow healthcare workers to refuse to perform abortions on religious and moral grounds.
Wichita Eagle
December 31, 1999
During that meeting, the arresting officer apologized to the young man. “Once they had met and talked it over, the parents were so much impacted by the fact that the chief was concerned about their feelings and about their mindset,” Woods said. The “God Squad” is a group of black religious leaders who'veÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
December 11, 2017
In September, King Hamad's son, Prince Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, went to the center to promote a religious tolerance declaration signed by the king. ... In the time since, activists, Shiite leaders and politicians have found themselves ensnared in a wide-ranging crackdown on all dissent in Bahrain.
Common Dreams
December 9, 2017
You and many of your colleagues say you are Christians and that you let your religion guide your policymaking. You even say you are “pro-life.” But your actions are stripping people of the healthcare they need to survive. You are working to pass legislation that is antithetical to the more than 2,000 versesÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star (blog)
December 3, 2017
Among the American Renewal Project's fellow travelers is the highly debunked evangelical author and activist David Barton of the Texas-based WallBuilders. Barton pushes the theory that the Founding Fathers were deeply religious Christian men and that Congress initially intended for the Bible to be usedÃÂ ...
HuffPost
November 27, 2017
Koontz says Kansas Law HR 2409 infringes on her religious right to boycott Israeli Jews and those individuals and companies who do business with Israel. ... political campaign as a religious duty handed down from the sixteenth-century, non-confrontational teachings of the pacifistic Mennonite religion.
Kansas City Star
November 21, 2017
Native American activists and tribal leaders from around New Mexico are joining the chorus of environmentalists who have been fighting for years to stop oil and gas development. This time, opponents are ... "As with many cultures and religions, we do not have a book to guide us. The land is our Bible.
Wichita Eagle
November 21, 2017
Native American activists and tribal leaders from around New ... "As with many cultures and religions, we do not have a book to guide us.
Kansas City Star
November 17, 2017
Activists have raised concerns about the response of the local sheriff ... guidance on protecting religious freedom that undercuts protections for ...
Seattle Times
November 15, 2017
When White again gathered religious leaders at Trump Tower in ... pastors, activists and heads of Christian organizations who advise Trump. ... conservative political activist Ralph Reed and Dallas-based pastor Robert Jeffress. ... where she spoke to journalists at a Religion News Association conference.
Wichita Eagle
November 15, 2017
Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists spokesman Mitch ... from engaging in any activity with students that involves religious beliefs, ...
Liberty News Now
November 14, 2017
The Catholic leaders and the human rights activists blasted the Democrats for delaying the appointment of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to the ...
Kansas City Star
November 12, 2017
Jalane Schmidt, a local activist and associate professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, said there's also a clear link between ...
The Atlantic
November 9, 2017
... and religious liberty; wars that have not gone well; the splintering of ... anti-slavery activist, and senator from Kansas, cast the deciding vote ...
Wichita Eagle
November 9, 2017
"I repeatedly asked my parents not to marry me against my will as my religion, Islam, also allows me to choose the man of my choice for ...
The Tidings
November 1, 2017
Trump administration makes overseas religious freedom a priority ... or where they experience “a high level of social hostility” to their religion. ... The appointment of Sam Brownback, the former governor and U.S. senator from Kansas, as the ... Habib Malik, a human rights activist and history professor at the ...
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