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Hobby Lobby birth control coverage up for federal appeal

In the most prominent challenge of its kind, Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. is asking a federal appeals court Thursday for an exemption from part of the federal health care law that requires it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill.

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Religion, politics and the common good

Religion, politics and the common good

When political discourse is marked by bitter partisanship, how and where can people of different faiths and political ideologies find common ground?

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Pope blasts 'cult of money'

Pope blasts 'cult of money'

Pope Francis has denounced the global financial system, blasting the "cult of money" that he says is tyrannizing the poor and turning humans into expendable consumer goods.

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Building a bridge between skeptics and believers

Building a bridge between skeptics and believers

Among the most divisive issues in American life - guns, abortion, same-sex marriage - no gulf seems quite so deep as that between religious believers and nonbelievers.

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Interfaith service continues in Boston

Interfaith service continues in Boston

The interfaith service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross continues.

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Interfaith service in memory of Boston bombing victims

Interfaith service in memory of Boston bombing victims

President Barack Obama will speak at an interfaith service in memory of the bombing victims at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston today.

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Pope supports crackdown on US nuns

Pope supports crackdown on US nuns

The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis supports the Holy See's crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns, dimming hopes that a Jesuit pope whose emphasis on the poor mirrored the nuns' own social outreach would take a different approach than his predecessor.

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Lao New Year unites groups to celebrate together for first time in Minn.

Lao New Year unites groups to celebrate together for first time in Minn.

Organizers of the Lao New Year's event in Crystal on Saturday say they brought the region's Hmong, Burmese and Laotian communities to celebrate together for the first time.
by Rupa Shenoy

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Holocaust Remembrance Day: Liberator Leonard Parker and survivors Lucy Smith and Sabina Zimering

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Liberator Leonard Parker and survivors Lucy Smith and Sabina Zimering

Yom Hoshoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013. Hear an emotional letter from 22-year-old US Army Sgt. Leonard Parker at the liberation of the Dachau concentration and death camp, and MPR interviews with Holocaust survivors Lucy Smith and Sabina Zimering, who live in Minnesota. Both girls hid from the Nazis.

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Pope's first Easter Mass sends messages of peace

Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass praying for world peace and urging a diplomatic solution to the standoff on the Korean peninsula. Only two weeks after his election, the first pope from the developing world continues to make his mark on the Catholic Church.

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