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• Pilgrim Baptist Church, founded by former slaves, celebrates 150 years
  The faces in stained glass that inspire worshippers at the Pilgrim Baptist Church aren't those of a white Jesus and the saints. Instead, they're the faces of the black ministers who led the church, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.June 13, 2013
• 500 years later, theological debate still simmers
  Is God's saving grace free to anyone who accepts Jesus, or did God predestine certain people for heaven and hell before the beginning of the world? That's a 500-year-old question, but it is creating real divisions in 2013 in the nation's largest Protestant denomination.June 8, 2013
• Same-sex couples start applying for marriage licenses
  Same-sex couples are heading to license bureaus in the Twin Cities this morning to apply for marriage licenses for the very first time, and Al Giraud and Jeff Isaacson were among the first in line at the Hennepin County Government Service Center.June 6, 2013
• ND church refuses to marry disabled couple
  A disabled Bismarck-Mandan couple is being refused marriage by the man's church because the pastor there says the couple isn't ready.May 24, 2013
• 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.May 23, 2013
• 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?The Daily Circuit, May 16, 2013
• 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.May 16, 2013
• 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.The Daily Circuit, May 6, 2013
• 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.The Daily Circuit, April 17, 2013
• 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.April 15, 2013
• 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.April 14, 2013
• 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.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, April 5, 2013
• 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.March 31, 2013
• Shroud of Turin goes on display amid new research
  The Shroud of Turin went on display for a special TV appearance Saturday amid new research disputing claims it's a medieval fake and purporting to date the linen some say was Jesus' burial cloth to around the time of his death.March 30, 2013
• America Abroad: Religious minorities in the Middle East
  The Middle East is largely Muslim but it's also the birthplace of Christianity, Judaism and many other religions. This edition of America Abroad is a discussion about Christian communities in Egypt, Jews in Tunisia, Alawi's in Syria and the declining religious diversity in the Middle East.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, March 28, 2013

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