Oklahoma expanded its "Stand Your Ground" law to allow deadly force in houses of worship, and Wyoming also repealed the prohibition of guns in houses of worship.
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We must protect our houses of worship & religious centers.
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Houses of worship, schools and even libraries have been vandalized.
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The group has no qualms about attacking houses of worship.
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Currently, only houses of worship and some companies are exempt.
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Churches and other houses of worship have also been exempt.
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It also banned prayers at houses of worship including mosques.
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It also banned prayers at houses of worship including mosques.
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In Queens, houses of worship often host neighborhood food events.
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Right now, houses of worship are fully exempted from covering contraception.
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Houses of worship remain thick on the ground in the borough.
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They'll marvel at how many houses of worship line Fourth Avenue.
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Churches and other houses of worship are exempt from this requirement.
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Congress, please don't inject politicking into our houses of worship. Rev.
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Originally, praise houses were used as houses of worship for slaves.
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Some towns have enacted zoning changes forbidding new houses of worship.
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The blazes terrorized congregants at the historically black houses of worship.
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State funding should include more robust protection for houses of worship.
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Political fixers will try to funnel money through houses of worship.
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There's been soul-searching recently over materialism in houses of worship.
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Recent acts of violence against houses of worship Trump also addressed recent acts of mass violence against different houses of worship across the globe, including the three historically black churches in Louisiana that were destroyed by arson.
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The blood spilt in our houses of worship has fulfilled their promise.
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The fire comes alongside a slew of attacks on houses of worship.
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The Associated Press: Houses of worship, once sanctuaries, struggle with security issues.
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ICE generally avoids arrests at "sensitive locations" such as houses of worship.
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It is also contacting senior centers, houses of worship, legislators and retailers.
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"These cathedrals and houses of worship are built to burn," he said.
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But shunning the physical houses of worship did not mean rejecting spirituality.
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Houses of worship are often called sanctuaries, a refuge from the world.
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Even houses of worship and movie theaters are on the endangered list.
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But attacks in houses of worship go back even further in recent times.
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U.S. immigration authorities are not prohibited from detaining people in houses of worship.
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Congregants of all houses of worship must mourn with those in Sutherland Springs.
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But most attacks at houses of worship aren't really about religion, experts say.
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It's mass murder and violence in the houses of worship of many faiths.
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These include not just churches, but mosques, synagogues, and other houses of worship.
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Houses of worship, including churches, temples and mosques, were exempt from the requirement.
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Houses of worship are not eligible unless they are attached to such establishments.
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Rick Scott said he will increase state trooper patrols at houses of worship.
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Religious houses of worship were the only employers exempted from the mandate entirely.
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These represent an interior spiritual life in contrast to Jerusalem's monumental houses of worship.
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ICE said it generally avoids arrests at "sensitive locations" such as houses of worship.
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ICE says it generally avoids arrests at "sensitive locations," such as houses of worship.
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But I know that is certainly not the case for all houses of worship.
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This response is emblematic of how other houses of worship are handling the crisis.
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It's similar to why people come together in physical spaces in houses of worship.
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We have deployed assets and resources in Jewish neighborhoods, specifically around houses of worship.
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The White House also wants to make houses of worship eligible for disaster relief funding.
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They said the IRS rule protects houses of worship and religious groups from political pressure.
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The Obama administration exempted churches, mosques, synagogues and other houses of worship from the requirement.
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Houses of worship of many faiths have been the scenes of crimes in recent years.
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Last year, there were more than 900 calls to 311 about noisy houses of worship.
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This bright-line rule has prevented government entanglement in the affairs of houses of worship.
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As a result, houses of worship are being forced to enforce security measures that rival airports.
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This year, 2,500 houses of worship — representing every major religion — did so in all 50 states.
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F.Y.I. Q. Old movie houses don't die; they're repurposed as drugstores, clinics, even houses of worship.
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Brewer's sentencing comes alongside a series of acts of vandalism targeting houses of worship, including synagogues.
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That means closed schools, houses of worship and no large gatherings through March 25, officials said.
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Other houses of worship, like the splendid 19th-century Nahon synagogue in Tangier, are now museums.
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And back on land, houses of worship will receive special attention for New Year's Eve services.
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Recent changes in Texas law allow licensed gun owners to carry firearms into houses of worship.
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Debates are already raging about gun control, the death penalty, and security at houses of worship.
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The division has also pushed to file more cases against towns that discriminate against houses of worship.
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Saturday's Passover violence followed a recent spate of deadly attacks on houses of worship around the world.
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The group has also warned Afghanistan&aposs minority Shiites that their houses of worship would be targeted.
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The containment protocols, which start Thursday, include closing schools, houses of worship and other large gathering facilities.
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Beginning Thursday, schools, houses of worship and other places used for large gatherings will be closed, Gov.
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Over the past few weeks, many houses of worship across the country have canceled their live services.
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Not counted in those numbers are people who seek sanctuary in houses of worship without going public.
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Immigration crackdown: The Trump administration has issued heavy fines to undocumented immigrants sheltering in houses of worship.
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Religious houses of worship are exempted from the mandate entirely, and certain employers can apply for exemptions.
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That has led Christians to set up unauthorized houses of worship, which are sometimes attacked by Muslim mobs.
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We pray with our feet by marching on the streets and by organizing in our houses of worship.
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Houses of worship are meant to serve the needs of the community, not the needs of political operatives.
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Like Drake, Chinn found that more than 10% of all homicides at houses of worship involve mental illness.
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Racists in our own country have desecrated Sikh gurdwaras (houses of worship) and brutally assaulted innocent Sikh Americans.
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Houses of worship do not have to file any paperwork if they choose not to provide contraception coverage.
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But some of the country's faithful attend underground or unregistered houses of worship to practice their religion freely.
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Insults and daily Islamophobia have led to the desecration of houses of worship, and bullying in the streets.
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Because of the outbreak, religious services were suspended at other houses of worship in the New York area.
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The shooting was the latest in a series of acts of violence to occur at houses of worship.
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The killings came amid a rising tide of religious conflict and white supremacist shootings at houses of worship.
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Shutdown schools, maternity wards, hospitals, internet cafes, public spaces, media outlets, houses of worship, and even the streets.
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Houses of worship have been attacked several times in recent years, including shootings at synagogues in Poway, Calif.
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Biden would end workplace immigration raids and stop enforcement actions at schools, medical facilities and houses of worship.
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For this reason, state and federal laws treat religious organizations, particularly houses of worship, differently — and often favorably.
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The mosque's lawyer claimed exemption under a city code covering bells, chimes and organs at houses of worship.
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Police will increase visits to houses of worship and "other critical areas in the community," the mayor said.
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Hate crimes have occurred at places of business, houses of worship, on private property, and even elementary schools.
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That's why it provided an exemption for houses of worship and a different "accommodation" for other religious nonprofits.
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"The whole thing with houses of worship is that you welcome people with greeters, not armed guards," Stetzer said.
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These changes would also allow outlawing of protest marches and shuttering houses of worship suspected of encouraging extremist views.
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If you're comfortable mixing faith into your contributions, you should always look to local houses of worship providing shelter.
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Neighbors came with rescue boats, houses of worship opened their doors to evacuees and Americans rushed to donate money.
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Other houses of worship have taken a similar stance to protest some of the Trump administration's policies on immigration.
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In recent years, deadly attacks have occurred at schools, offices, concerts, sporting events, shopping malls, and houses of worship.
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Not our houses of worship, our schools, our places of leisure and entertainment, nor our streets and our homes.
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Schools, houses of worship and other places used for large gatherings will be closed for two weeks, Cuomo said.
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Within that area, schools, houses of worship and other facilities for large gatherings will be closed for two weeks.
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The order's biggest effects on religious life could come through its directives on partisan politicking by houses of worship.
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The NSGP makes grants to houses of worship and other non-profits deemed to be at risk of attack.
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Congress should authorize some of those grants specifically to support the deployment of police protection to houses of worship.
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It's one of several measures that houses of worship have adopted as they increasingly become targets of mass shootings.
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"We don't want, as a country — well, the vast majority of states — to fund houses of worship," she said.
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The bill allows licensed handgun owners to legally carry their weapons in churches, synagogues and other houses of worship.
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The new laws also make it easier for people to bring guns into houses of worship and foster homes.
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And the trail was also cold at two local houses of worship, including the nearby Chambers Memorial Baptist Church.
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But gun control advocates and some religious leaders have argued such laws have no place in houses of worship.
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Now Rabbi Goldstein and leaders like him in synagogues and other houses of worship are confronting their new reality.
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She cautioned that particular countries may witness increases in attacks on houses of worship, even while they remain rare worldwide.
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According to the Hartford Institute's 2015 survey, the median income for these houses of worship in 2014 was $4.7 million.
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The government does not grant licenses to non-Muslim houses of worship, and limits those of its Shiite Muslim citizens.
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" The Church of Scientology praised the heroic actions of the police officers in defending "houses of worship against hate crimes.
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And then the bombings started, targeting the institutions that hold societies, and nations, together: schools, houses of worship, newspaper offices.
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A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced legislation that would bolster security at synagogues and other houses of worship.
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"The houses of worship are surely of value to whatever denomination," said Cioffi, who was not involved in the research.
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But when politics affects whether and where Americans go to church, even our houses of worship become political echo chambers.
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Houses of worship are dealing with calls to close or limit the number of people allowed to enter their congregations.
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Images from the bombing sites showed bloodied and shattered pews and victims lying on the floor of houses of worship.
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It's more than just sharing parking spaces: the two houses of worship hold interfaith dialogue sessions, and even volleyball tournaments.
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On Wednesday, volunteers gathered in both houses of worship, dripping with sweat as they sorted through heavy boxes and bags.
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At the meeting, Barr told the Jewish leaders that he would explore steering federal grants toward protecting houses of worship.
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The new laws loosen restrictions on gun ownership and use in schools, foster homes, apartment buildings, and houses of worship.
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De Blasio also stated that there will be increased visits — presumably police checkups — on community centers and houses of worship.
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Use them to bring clothing to shelters, houses of worship or Goodwill, and leave them as part of the donation.
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The mass shooting sparked security alerts at houses of worship around the country and condemnation from politicians and religious leaders.
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Jewish people and those of all faiths should not have to live in fear of going to their houses of worship.
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The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland announced that the city&aposs houses of worship had planned a prayer vigil at 7 p.m.
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They are seeking an exemption from the mandate similar to what has been provided to houses of worship such as churches.
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Like El Paso, churches played a big role in that, with 286 percent saying they had donated to houses of worship.
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Houses of worship were not required to provide insurance coverage for birth control if it violated their sincerely held religious beliefs.
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Tour the local institutions: real estate offices, international schools, houses of worship — but not the hospital, if you can help it.
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" ICE officials are not allowed to make arrests at schools, hospitals or houses of worship without prior approval or "exigent circumstances.
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The threat of gun violence is real enough that business owners, schools and houses of worship can buy insurance against it.
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Panelists debated whether cultural institutions should provide the same level of protection against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) houses of worship.
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As the deadly pandemic spreads, houses of worship around the world -- from the Vatican to storefront mosques -- have closed their doors.
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The suspected arson attack against the Chicago synagogue adds to an uptick in suspected arson attempts on houses of worship nationwide.
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In doing so, she joins about 40 other immigrants around the nation who are being publicly shielded by houses of worship.
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Reggie Wilson's Platform for Danspace Project considers the importance of houses of worship in the largely secular world of contemporary dance.
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Through the county welfare office, Ms. Theodore found Family Promise of Union County, which shelters homeless families in houses of worship.
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In fact, as originally proposed, the House tax reform bill would have altered the Johnson amendment only for houses of worship.
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The shooting, the latest in a series of deadly attacks at houses of worship, is being treated as a hate crime.
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This type of religious harmony among neighboring houses of worship is evident not just in Jakarta, but across the Indonesian archipelago.
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They are isolated at home and away from the office, houses of worship, sporting events, restaurants, gyms, theaters, bars and museums.
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Meanwhile, schools and other large gathering facilities within the zone, such as community centers and houses of worship, will be closed.
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Blumenthal said he plans to announce a dramatic increase in federal security grants available to protect houses of worship in Connecticut.
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Feature A building spree of houses of worship is furthering the Islamicization of the country and providing an ongoing economic engine.
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Companies can now cite moral or religious objections to avoid following the rule, which previously only applied to houses of worship.
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Punishing houses of worship for their spiritual beliefs veers into precisely the kind of illiberalism that Democrats are hoping to overthrow.
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"As such, the targeting of houses of worship by violent extremists of any ideology is particularly abhorrent and must be prevented."
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The New Zealand government instituted the program after 210 people were fatally shot at two Islamic houses of worship in March.
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When you see in the news houses of worship being raided and things like that — it's about you and your faith.
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As the attacks on Christians in Sri Lanka and Muslims in New Zealand show, houses of worship for many faiths are threatened.
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Federal rules implemented under Obamacare required employers to provide health insurance that covers birth control, but religious houses of worship were exempted.
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So far this year, at least 12 white supremacists have been arrested for threatening or planning to target Jewish houses of worship.
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New York City police said Saturday they would deploy extra security to local synagogues and other houses of worship as a precaution.
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They have held services in various houses of worship around the city, ensuring the killer couldn't put a stop to their prayer.
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The law exempts houses of worship from the mandate, but only offers an accommodation to non-profit groups who raised religious objections.
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Following the terrorist attack in London, NYPD has enhanced its presence around NYC houses of worship, w/ a specific focus on mosques.
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Chinn has collected data on more than 1,600 "deadly force incidents" since 1733 at all houses of worship, including mosques, synagogues, etc.
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Only one in three Americans said in the Pew poll released in June that churches and houses of worship should endorse candidates.
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At Ms. Caratzola's urging, the township also doubled to six acres the land required for houses of worship, drastically increasing their costs.
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Houses of worship were always exempt from the rule but other groups, including religious nonprofits, hospitals, and universities, have challenged the law.
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As a politician who respected all communities and religions, Rajapaksa was doing the "right thing" by visiting houses of worship, Rambukwella said.
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Tyler Perry thinks houses of worship should remain holy and sacrosanct, but the sad reality is that armed guards may be necessary.
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While many states' stay-at-home orders apply to houses of worship, at least six states have included some sort of exemption.
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Just as important, many clergy members say that the very mission of houses of worship leaves them conflicted over imposing security measures.
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"We see abandoned churches and houses of worship repurposed as apartment buildings — why not a hospital as a residential building?" he said.
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Refugees denied political asylum were spirited across the southern border and sheltered in houses of worship like Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson.
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DHS can also expand its programs to help schools, houses of worship, businesses, and public places better protect themselves from active shooters.
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They also make it easier for people to bring guns into houses of worship and allow some foster homes to store guns.
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That incident was repeatedly referred to during debates over the new law that allows people to bring guns into houses of worship.
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During a four-day trip in September, I found jaw-droppingly good food, beautiful houses of worship and a fantastic day trip.
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His is one of more than 85033 houses of worship across the country offering such sanctuary, Scott Pelley of "60 Minutes" noted.
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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The gunshots that tore through a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday first triggered lockdowns in houses of worship across the city.
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Under Obama, religious houses of worship were exempt from the contraceptive mandate, as Vox's Sarah Kliff and Dylan Scott noted last year.
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In the past decade, houses of worship — from synagogues to Christian churches to Sikh temples — have increasingly become targets for extremist violence.
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The high death toll meant that terrorism targeting religious groups and houses of worship resulted in 19% of total terrorism casualties that November.
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Theories vary on why houses of worship across the world seem to be under increasing threat, though attacks on sanctuaries remain relatively rare.
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He accused immigration officials of violating their own "sensitive locations" guidelines, which advises against detaining people at hospitals, schools and houses of worship.
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Looking more broadly at all violence at all houses of worship, Chinn has tallied more than 250 incidents each in 2015 and 2016.
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"These weapons belong on the battlefield, not in our homes, schools, houses of worship or workplaces," he said, according to the Daily News.
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"An attack on any house of worship is an attack on all houses of worship," said Ahmed Bedier, a Muslim activist in Florida.
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The religious groups said that houses of worship already can host candidate forums, and religious leaders can endorse candidates in their personal capacities.
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On the fourth day, when Solomon was in ethics class, the teachers asked the students what houses of worship they had been to.
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The "Nobody's Fool" director was in NYC Tuesday, where he said Trump's call to arms in houses of worship is not the solution.
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Texas law allows houses of worship to bar firearms, and many do, posting signs saying that carrying guns onto the property is prohibited.
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During the demonstrations, and on numerous previous occasions, I have witnessed both Muslims and Catholics walking peacefully to their respective houses of worship.
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However, most Americans, and even most clergy members, say they do not want churches and houses of worship to engage in partisan politics.
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He says he has moved from a position of "no guns" to church security because of the recent attacks in houses of worship.
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Americans fund and support access to global WASH [WAter/Sanitation/Hygiene] work through their houses of worship, faith-based and non-governmental organizations.
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In America today there are two arenas which I would like to see returned to as safe zones: houses of worship and sports.
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"Americans do not want our houses of worship, charitable nonprofits, and foundations to become points of leverage for partisan politics," the letter said.
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Conservatives have argued that it violates the protections of free speech and free exercise that the First Amendment extends to houses of worship.
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Ironically, the language in Section 5201 would give the IRS a mandate to scrutinize the operations and financial affairs of houses of worship.
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The Justice Department investigates claims of discrimination involving houses of worship under a 220 statute, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
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The first step is to call it out when we see it in our houses of worship, living rooms, libraries, college campuses and kindergartens.
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We ask members of Congress to join us and defend the integrity and independence of houses of worship by keeping the Johnson Amendment strong.
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The rules also require local governments to decide on applications to build houses of worship within 30 days and to explain denials in writing.
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Since the Villejuif plot was foiled, many houses of worship in France, including mosques and synagogues, have been on a heightened state of alert.
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Schools, houses of worship and other large gathering spaces within the area will be closed for two weeks beginning on Thursday, Mr. Cuomo said.
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According to Yahoo News, cultural institutions like libraries are closed, and the government is encouraging houses of worship and other places to shut down.
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The rules would ban social gatherings or ceremonies, including weddings; and close houses of worship, gyms, bars, and restaurants, except for takeout or delivery.
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Angham, a prominent local singer, sang for Muslim-Christian coexistence as a display of fireworks lit the skies over the two houses of worship.
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Yet while many churches, temples, and other houses of worship have switched to virtual religious services, some Americans say their congregations are still gathering.
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It thrived in the heyday of American Conservative Judaism, but like many houses of worship in big cities, it has seen its membership dwindle.
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ObamaCare mandated that employers offer health insurance that covers birth control without a co-pay, with exemptions for houses of worship and some companies.
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Patrick spoke about another Texas law that took effect in September that makes it legal for people to have guns in houses of worship.
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ObamaCare requires that employers offer insurance plans that cover birth control with no co-pay, with exceptions for houses of worship and some companies.
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While the large, empty houses of worship are perfect for fitting vats, kegs and plenty of beer lovers, many clergymen are uncomfortable with the trend.
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The New York Police Department directed special attention to all mosque and other houses of worship throughout the city, the NYPD said in a statement.
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In some ways, Drake said, houses of worship are simply the most "convenient venue" for attackers who harbor grudges against former lovers, spouses or friends.
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According to that report, houses of worship employed a total of 196,460 Americans in May 2018, the most recent period for which data is available.
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Historic houses of worship dot the neighborhood, and side streets are generally quiet, with little new construction, largely because many areas have received landmark designation.
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We should not in any way weaken the foundations of the wall, or we will seriously damage the integrity and independence of houses of worship.
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Senator Lankford doesn't believe houses of worship should make endorsements, however, he doesn't want the federal government, through the IRS, to tell them not to.
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Mr. Cuomo said that large gathering places in the containment area, including schools, community centers and houses of worship, would be closed for two weeks.
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All houses of worship and business premises will be closed, with the exception of supermarkets, wet markets, grocery shops and convenience stores selling daily necessities.
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There is a sense that celebrities and political figures have become a symbol set that has perhaps displaced more fundamental or archaic houses of worship.
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In recent years, these houses of worship have been revived by Christian immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, with Moroccan converts still confined to their homes.
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"To undermine the press is, to me, no different than undermining our houses of worship," he said during an interview in his father's old office.
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Around the country, a string of threats and attacks in recent years have led many houses of worship to take steps to secure their sanctuaries.
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The decision to deconsecrate — which means transform the houses of worship to secular purposes — was announced in decrees posted on the archdiocese website in June.
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But Saturday's shooting was just the latest in a series of mass shootings in houses of worship where the stranger turned out to be armed.
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They should present history as it was, without distortions even if well meant, of symbols and houses of worship that misrepresent and misshape that memory.
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Houses of worship and other charities could become unregulated vessels for campaign contributions, which taxpayers would then have to partly underwrite because they were deductible.
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Senate Bill 535 allows licensed handgun owners to bring their weapons into houses of worship, and was proposed after the deadly 2017 Sutherland Springs shooting.
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They were told to monitor current events, keep an eye on community bulletin boards inside houses of worship and look for "hot spots" of trouble.
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There is a tension between preserving old but active houses of worship, whose roofs are practically firewood, and updating them to meet fire safety standards.
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Rockland County, a suburban area north of the city, tried banning unvaccinated individuals from public spaces, restaurants, shopping areas and houses of worship last month.
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Houses of worship are more likely to be chosen as caucus locations when the county is religiously diverse and less likely when it is homogeneous.
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Security is often ramped up after mass shootings, some of which have taken place at houses of worship, including churches, a synagogue and a gurudwara.
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The decision covers future budgets and projects only, and houses of worship are not required to give back any money or stop projects already in progress.
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They opened up their houses of worship In support of those seeking food and shelter, Sikhs in Orlando opened two temples to anyone who needed it.
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People have been told to avoid houses of worship, as the country enters the first weekend since terrorists bombed churches and hotels in the island nation.
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The report raises concerns that the technology could be used by ICE to target immigrants near "sensitive locations" like medical facilities and houses of worship. 7.
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The incident occurred as law enforcement and houses of worship were on heightened alert following deadly Easter Sunday bombings in churches and hotels in Sri Lanka.
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"Let me make it clear: we are not talking about houses of worship, who will still be exempt from property tax, according to law," he wrote.
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"The charitable sector, particularly houses of worship, should not become another cog in a political machine or another loophole in campaign finance laws," the group wrote.
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The law did not provide exemptions for religious organizations, with the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office saying on its website that "houses of worship" are public places.
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Gun control has long been considered an important issue for many voters, fueled by recent high-profile mass shootings in schools, houses of worship and elsewhere.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Last summer, a number of houses of worship in Nairobi gleamed yellow, with their walls freshly painted in sunshiny shades.
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Churches and other houses of worship do not have to file tax returns with the IRS, whereas Catholic non-profits such as the Little Sisters do.
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The policy still allows a wide range of advocacy on political issues, but bars houses of worship from electioneering and outright political endorsements from the pulpit.
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The documents obtained by Fortify Rights detail restrictions on movement, marriage, childbirth, home repairs and construction of houses of worship, and other aspects of everyday life.
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What could possibly go wrong if our country's more than 22019 million charitable nonprofits, houses of worship, and foundations were authorized to engage in partisan electioneering?
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Extreme forms of police surveillance, including cameras and mobile apps used to spy on families in their homes and houses of worship, are becoming common practice.
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Since 1954, the Johnson Amendment has ensured that tax exempt organizations, including charitable nonprofits, houses of worship, and foundations, do not endorse or oppose political candidates.
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When the tens of millions of Americans attend their houses of worship, they do so to pray and worship in fellowship with their families and communities.
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Lakeville Road, the main north-south artery, which becomes Middle Neck Road north of Northern Boulevard, is lined with apartments, shops, restaurants and houses of worship.
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The regime exerts absolute influence over the handful of state-controlled houses of worship permitted to exist, creating a facade of religious life in North Korea.
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Chennai: There are many reasons to be excited about the South Indian city, our Frugal Traveler columnist found, from good food to beautiful houses of worship.
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And while Christian leaders since time immemorial have striven to make houses of worship inviolable grounds, today conservatives are turning the word "sanctuary" into an epithet.
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Many types of buildings were exempted from the caps, including houses of worship and apartment houses with rent-regulated units and other types of affordable housing.
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Rockland County, N.Y., the center of another outbreak, initially barred unvaccinated children from all indoor public places, including schools, malls, supermarkets, restaurants and houses of worship.
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BuzzFeed reports that houses of worship, schools and other public facilities are closed and large gatherings are banned in a bid to prevent further community spread.
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Consultants have started businesses focused on church security, and the federal government has offered limited grants for houses of worship to install cameras and hire guards.
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Houses of worship across the country are preparing to provide sanctuary or other assistance to undocumented immigrants amid fears of more deportations under the new administration.
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Under the Affordable Care Act, employers must offer free coverage for birth control — only certain religious organizations, such as houses of worship, could ask for an exemption.
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On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers in Connecticut announced plans to free up $5 million in state funding to ramp up security at houses of worship.
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For minorities, the event served as a reminder that not even our houses of worship are safe from hate -- a notion that has been reinforced throughout history.
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Under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, employers are required to provide health insurance that covers birth control, but religious houses of worship are exempted.
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But his quiet on social media following violent or deadly attacks on Muslim Americans, on the street or inside houses of worship, has drawn the most attention.
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The groups, which include hospitals and schools, added that they should be entitled to the outright exemption offered to houses of worship like churches, synagogues and mosques.
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Houses of worship are not subject to the coverage requirement at all and do not have to file paperwork if they choose not to provide contraception coverage.
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A group of over 85033,000 religious leaders from around the country are rallying around a rule that prevents houses of worship from participating in explicitly political activities.
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Immigrants were the most frequent targets, the center said, but blacks, gays, Muslims and other minorities also reported being victimized in schools, streets and houses of worship.
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Schools and other facilities for large gatherings like community centers and houses of worship within the area will be closed for two weeks beginning tomorrow, he said.
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US immigration policy prevents agents from entering houses of worship, except when individuals pose a security risk, so the congregations can effectively block deportations by offering sanctuary.
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During the war years, bus stations, airports, banks and houses of worship became frequent targets, and the cities became choked with barricades, security checkpoints and military presence.
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Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of the al-Azhar Mosque, said Islam obliges Muslims to safeguard and defend houses of worship, whether Muslim, Christian or Jewish.
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In the wake of the attack, communities were surveilled, houses of worship were monitored and law enforcement agencies had to adapt and shift as the threat evolved.
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Brooklyn: The Borough of Churches In the mid-2000s, many houses of worship in Brooklyn, especially in neighborhoods with historic landmark protections, were converted into apartment buildings.
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While many houses of worship are warding off developers as they struggle to hold on to their buildings, Trinity Church has become a big-time developer itself.
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Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg will all have more patrols, and the NYPD will also increase visits to Jewish houses of worship, The Associated Press reports.
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In the wake of the Charleston shooting, several fires at black churches across the country fueled concerns of a wave of arson targeting black houses of worship.
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Ms Sotomayor noted that 39 states have no-aid provisions in their constitutions because they "don't want to spend money from the public fisc on houses of worship".
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So, while religious believers and many others are understandably appalled by attacks on houses of worship, we should be skeptical of analysts pushing a "clash of civilizations" narrative.
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The law originally released houses of worship from the so-called "contraceptive mandate" but did not exempt religiously affiliated organisations with broader missions and more religiously diverse staffs.
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The Affordable Care Act required that employers offer health insurance that covers birth control without a co-pay, with exemptions for houses of worship and some private companies.
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However, because churches don't currently have to file paperwork to the IRS, abolishing the Johnson Amendment could open up the books of houses of worship to federal scrutiny.
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Members of churches and synagogues are again offering their houses of worship as sanctuaries for undocumented people fearing deportation, according to groups that work with immigrants and refugees.
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Christians Against Christian Nationalism points to hate crimes against non-Christian houses of worship by white nationalists in the past few years as proof of this ideology permeating.
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You may have seen one in an airport or stadium; they should also be in schools, theaters, convention centers, houses of worship, casinos — everywhere that large groups gather.
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School districts in several states have shut down, universities are moving classes online, companies are telling employees to work from home, and houses of worship are limiting services.
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With no control, people can try to do their part to flatten the curve, but schools, entertainment and houses of worship remain open, and business proceeds as usual.
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In California and 222 other states, an interfaith network has organized thousands of volunteers to swoop into action when immigrants are arrested or houses of worship are vandalized.
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For starters, the immediate threat of bad actors planning and conducting attacks against Jewish houses of worship and individuals must be met with robust measures by the authorities.
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The Little Sisters challenged the mandate before the court in March 2016, seeking an exemption similar to what has been provided to houses of worship such as churches.
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"We can't assume that churches and houses of worship will remain safe locations," said Ms. Harrington, senior pastor at Southside Presbyterian Church, long a hub for sanctuary work.
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A good start would be safe spaces in houses of worship, know your rights seminars, and workshops on the heart-wrenching work of creating a family deportation plan.
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Museums, houses of worship, advocacy groups and cemeteries have been targets of bomb threats and vandalism as federal officials work with state and local authorities to find those responsible.
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Even in an era of LGBTQ centers, houses of worship, gay Greek college societies, and professional associations, their centrality in the lives of contemporary gay men and lesbians endures.
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Mayor Nir Barkat has said the churches owed the city more than $180 million in property tax from their commercial holdings, adding that "houses of worship" would remain exempt.
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In briefs, lawyers say they want an exemption from the law similar to what is already being offered to the houses of worship, some small businesses and grandfathered plans.
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The policy still allows a wide range of advocacy on political issues, but in the case of houses of worship, bars electioneering and outright political endorsements from the pulpit.
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Today's decision makes clear that Trinity Lutheran's playground improvement is no different than the government provision of police or fire protection to houses of worship and other religious institutions.
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Faith-based agencies often have more direct access to foster homes than do secular agencies because they can recruit generous families through houses of worship in their local community.
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Under both federal law and common law, charitable nonprofits, houses of worship, and foundations have an obligation not to use any resources of any kind to influence partisan elections.
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Charities and houses of worship whose members, staffs and boards of directors now span the political spectrum predict that they will be pressured to take sides in political campaigns.
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More details are emerging about the synagogue shooting in California on Saturday — the latest in a disturbing series of attacks on houses of worship in the U.S. and beyond.
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A provision of the Affordable Care Act requiring employers to provide contraceptive coverage, except for houses of worship, dramatically expanded access to birth control for women across the country.
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The containment measure will close three public schools and several parochial and private schools, in addition to houses of worship, country clubs, and possibly other public places, Bramson said.
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The containment measure will close three public schools and several parochial and private schools, in addition to houses of worship, country clubs, and possibly other public places, Bramson said.
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The Obama administration offered an exemption to houses of worship and a more limited "accommodation" to certain employers who had religious objections to providing or paying for contraceptive coverage.
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The sight of old spires squeezed between new towering high-rises suggests the ability of churches and other houses of worship to hang on through block-altering building booms.
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In addition to houses of worship that have traditionally supported families in crisis, there are hundreds of programs throughout the country dedicated to supporting grieving children and their families.
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Maybe even houses of worship could be induced to take certain stations under their wing, like Parsons Boulevard, Church Avenue, Shepherd Avenue, Rector Street, Elder Avenue and Cathedral Parkway.
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Recognizing that contraceptive services is a sensitive cultural and political issue, the Obama administration exempted houses of worship from the coverage requirement and created an accommodation for religious nonprofits.
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These projects stand in stark contrast to other houses of worship around the city, many with dwindling congregations, struggling to pay heating bills and keep the roof from leaking.
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Since the attack in Pittsburgh, American law enforcement has arrested individuals in multiple states-- in Washington, Georgia, California and Ohio -- for plotting attacks on synagogues and other houses of worship.
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Attitudes of racism, xenophobia, homophobia and sexism also must be purged from our hearts and civil discourse, and houses of worship must lead by being places of acceptance and inclusion.
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In 2017, just 22 percent of American weddings took place in houses of worship, a nearly 20-point drop from 2009, according to data from the wedding website the Knot.
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The incident happened amid heightened security at houses of worship following the deadly Easter Sunday bombings that left at least 359 people dead in churches and hotels in Sri Lanka.
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Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, currently, all employers—except religious houses of worship and some owners of private businesses—have to offer contraceptive coverage in their health insurance plans.
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The pastor says he's heard from the White House As the novel coronavirus spreads across the world, nearly every faith group has closed its holy sites and houses of worship.
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OPELOUSAS, La. — While the victims prayed for the soul of the arsonist who burned down their houses of worship, investigators rushed to assemble clues, worried the assailant would strike again.
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In the secular architecture of New York, few houses of worship invite more devotion than our massive sports venues, built on the holy commandments of tax abatements and corporate sponsorship.
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"An attack on any house of worship is an attack on all houses of worship," Ismael Claudio, bishop of the Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ in Brooklyn, told USA Today.
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From movie theaters, to schools, to houses of worship, families get daily reminders that politicians have pocketed millions from the NRA while failing to protect our kids from gun violence.
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Like her dad, however, she used Twitter to remind her followers that the United States is a "nation built on religious tolerance" and that it's important to protect houses of worship.
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California synagogue shooting The shooting over the weekend at a synagogue near San Diego is just the latest attack against houses of worship that have occurred over the past six weeks.
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"The Constitution and federal law specifically protect the freedom of religious communities to establish houses of worship," Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.
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That core belief, long codified in federal and state laws, holds true for all public servants, whether they are government employees or representatives of charitable nonprofits, houses of worship, or foundations.
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"Following the terrorist attack in London, NYPD has enhanced its presence around NYC houses of worship, [with] a specific focus on mosques," the mayor's press secretary, Eric Phillips, said on Twitter.
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While ministers and clergy are the figureheads of America's many houses of worship, there's a whole team of workers who keep churches, synagogues, mosques, and temples running from day to day.
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In all, 499 houses of worship risk yearly flooding by 2050 if greenhouse gas emissions blamed for climate change continue to grow at their current pace, the Climate Central report found.
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"IPD has reached out to its partners in the Jewish community to reaffirm the Department's commitment to protecting their members, houses of worship and educational institutions," the department posted on Facebook.
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Sturm Ruger and other gunmakers have been under pressure from social activist investors after a series of mass shootings across the United States, including at schools, businesses and houses of worship.
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Neither do they want one of the few remaining places they can escape — their sacred houses of worship — invaded and plunged into the mire and muck of polarizing partisanship via endorsements.
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Churches can effectively shield immigrants from deportation because houses of worship are considered sensitive sites where enforcement is avoided by the Immigration of Customs and Enforcement, commonly referred to as ICE.
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There are plenty of good uses for your unwanted totes: Use them to bring clothing donations to shelters, houses of worship or Goodwill, and leave them as part of the donation.
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The Affordable Care Act of 2010, popularly known as Obamacare, required employers to cover contraception under their health plans with no co-payment but created exemptions for religious houses of worship.
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The GOP tax law imposed a 21 percent unrelated business income tax on expenses that houses of worship and other nonprofits incur for providing parking and transit benefits to their employees.
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Churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship have beefed up their security as a response to the shooting in 2015 and the continuous headlines of religiously motivated attacks across the country.
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If, after these relentless attacks, houses of worship become surrounded by barbed wire and policed by armed guards, that sense of sanctuary will have been lost, and may never be regained.
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"There is no Jewish neighborhood now, just drawings on a map," said Gilbert Saim, an official at Choral Temple, one of the few Jewish houses of worship left in the city.
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On Tuesday, county officials took the extraordinary step of announcing a state of emergency, barring unvaccinated children under 18 from public places, including restaurants, shopping centers, houses of worship and schools.
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Currently, under the ACA, most American businesses cannot seek exemption unless they fall into one of three categories: houses of worship, "closely held" private companies, and institutions with a faith-based mission.
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Open letter referenced attacks on houses of worship Detectives are "collecting digital evidence" and are in the process of reviewing the online content "to determine its validity and authenticity," the sheriff said.
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At least 49 people were killed and more than 40 others others wounded when an immigrant-hating white supremacist opened fire during Friday prayers at two houses of worship in New Zealand.
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In need of repair, the church did what many other houses of worship in the area have done — turned for help to the county, which gave it more than $260,000 in 2013.
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Miller also noted that some attacks on houses of worship were committed by violent Islamists who targeted fellow Muslims, which (again) counters the notion that Christianity and Islam are increasingly in conflict.
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"The savage bombardment harvests lives everywhere, including in hospitals and houses of worship, while the international community is helpless or ineffective to take any decision to deter this criminal machine," it said.
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A resounding chorus of voices — from the battlefields to the halls of Capitol Hill, from houses of worship to the boardrooms of our country's CEOs — is singing off the same song sheet.
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The $60 million project, launched in 653 and funded through donations, may be the first time in US history that the three faiths intentionally build their houses of worship side by side.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it was planning to ramp up efforts to bring more civil rights lawsuits against municipalities that try to discriminate against houses of worship.
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Mr. Toussaint was aware of the two other fires that had been set at nearby houses of worship, St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre, and Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas.
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"New York City is a complicated, dynamic place with lots of old buildings and new buildings and hospitals and houses of worship and affordable apartments," said the City Council speaker, Corey Johnson.
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The deadly attack at a synagogue near San Diego over the weekend was the latest reminder of a new reality for houses of worship, which, like schools, must prepare for mass shootings.
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How do you feel the warmth of communal prayer, the experience that draws the faithful to houses of worship around the world, in the cold blue light of a live-streamed service?
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How do you feel the warmth of communal prayer, the experience that draws the faithful to houses of worship around the world, in the cold blue light of a live-streamed service?
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The Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, a Muslim organization in an unincorporated neighborhood in the township, bought a four-acre plot in 2011 in an area where zoning permitted houses of worship.
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It is crucial that the city has committed to keeping homeless families in their communities, where they will remain connected to their schools, child care supports, neighbors, doctors and houses of worship.
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The New Zealand terror attacks are also part of a broader trend in the West in which terrorists are targeting houses of worship, which were generally considered off-limits in the past.
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But the Johnson Amendment has become a particular target of the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom, which argues it is unconstitutional and has a chilling effect on houses of worship and religious organizations.
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According to F.B.I. statistics, about 4 percent of hate crime incidents in 2017, the most recent year for which data was available, were at houses of worship, including churches, synagogues and mosques.
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Yet the claim is powerful: "Allowing hospitals and other religiously affiliated organisations that are not houses of worship to arrogate to themselves the legal status of a church...would be impermissible religious favouritism".
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But since 2012, the number of attacks on houses of worship, religious figures and religious institutions has remained relatively low, comprising anywhere from 2% to 4% of the total number of attacks worldwide.
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"The reality is that people are scared or they choose not to walk into our houses of worship out of fear," said Michael Masters, national director and CEO of the Secure Community Network.
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In response to the uproar, Newton County officials last week passed a moratorium on the construction of all houses of worship to further study issues such as the impact of traffic and noise.
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Specifically, they are calling on Congress not to upend the Johnson Amendment, which bans tax-exempt 501(c)3 organizations, including houses of worship, from endorsing candidates or explicitly engaging in electoral politics.
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The Johnson Amendment — named after its sponsor, Lyndon B. Johnson, then a senator — applies to all charitable organizations that accept 501(c) tax-deductible contributions, which includes churches and other houses of worship.
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As schools, workplaces, physical gathering areas, and houses of worship close to prevent the spread of COVID-19 virus, we hope to protect ourselves and others from getting sick and even potentially dying.
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"Bernards Township made decisions that treated the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge differently than other houses of worship," William E. Fitzpatrick, the acting United States attorney for New Jersey, said in a statement.
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He also searched phrases like "why did Hitler hate Jews," searched for locations of nearby Jewish houses of worship, and scrawled "Nazi culture" alongside swastikas and the Star of David in his journals.
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More than five years ago, the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge sought permits to build a mosque big enough for 150 people on a four-acre parcel, where zoning permitted houses of worship.
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At the rally, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York announced a proposal to increase federal funding to protect houses of worship and increase the capacity for local police groups to fight hate crimes.
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This downtown church is one of 212 houses of worship in the United States that have offered to provide sanctuary or other assistance to undocumented immigrants, according to leaders of the Sanctuary Movement.
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"Threats made against houses of worship are abhorrent and this Office will work tirelessly to ensure that members of all faiths may worship in peace and without intimidation," said U.S. Attorney Bobby L. Christine.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads LOS ANGELES — The Vault Gallery at the UCLA's Hammer Museum is named after the classic arched architecture that informs the shape and structure of many houses of worship.
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If passed, the legislation would make it incredibly difficult for the IRS to investigate houses of worship that have violated the Johnson Amendment by requiring consent from Congress before enforcement action can take place.
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In Chinn's dataset, robberies account for more than a quarter of homicides within houses of worship, followed by fights between domestic partners (16%) and personal conflicts between people who do not live together (14%).
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Others described the fires as divine retribution for legislation being advanced in Israel, with Mr. Netanyahu's backing, to ban or restrict the use of loudspeakers by mosques and other houses of worship across Israel.
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His most Trumpian promise is his pledge to repeal the Johnson Amendment, a rarely enforced law that bars houses of worship and other nonprofit groups from using tax-exempt resources to endorse political candidates.
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They are searching for solutions to their immigration cases and hoping ICE will stick to its policy of not arresting anyone in "sensitive locations" -- schools, hospitals or houses of worship -- except in extenuating circumstances.
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Mayor William Peduto, who strongly rejected Mr. Trump's suggestion that armed guards in houses of worship are the answer to violence, warned that the president would be a distraction from funerals taking place Tuesday.
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Patty Baker, who is the minister for St. Clare's, says the church — like most other houses of worship throughout the Seattle area — is figuring out precisely what it means to even be a church.
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Today, we are all rightly repulsed by the sight of neo-Nazis and Klansmen openly marching in Charlottesville, VA, and we are horrified by houses of worship being shot up by right-wing terrorists.
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But even so, Mr. Flores's freedom gives the growing sanctuary movement, organized by houses of worship across the country to protect undocumented immigrants, a small victory in the face of a widespread federal crackdown.
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Except for a library branch, six houses of worship and two small commercial clusters along Union Turnpike — one anchored by a Greek restaurant, the other by an Italian restaurant — Hollis Hills has few amenities.
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"Nearly 80 years since Kristallnacht, when the Jews of Europe perished in the flames of their houses of worship, one thing is clear: Anti-Semitism, Jew-hating, is not a distant memory," Bennett said.
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But this was Texas, where a pair of state laws adopted since 267 not only authorize armed security details at houses of worship, but also allow parishioners to bring their own weapons to church.
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According to the federal complaint, the local ordinance required 50 parking spaces for houses of worship based on a 3-to-1 standard ratio, or an average of three people arriving in one car.
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Jay Inslee of Washington State on Wednesday announced a prohibition on community gatherings of 250 or more people in the Seattle area, a measure that could have significant ramifications for major houses of worship.
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Smaller houses of worship provide not only the beauty of their historic structures, she argued, but also crucial social services as well: soup kitchens, food pantries, art programs and gathering places for community meetings.
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A 2008 city law that requires sprinklers and fire alarms does not necessarily apply to old churches and other houses of worship, according to Daniel A. Nigro, the commissioner for the city's Fire Department.
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According to ThinkProgress's Jack Jenkins, at least nine houses of worship in Houston, and several more outside the immediate Houston area, have opened their doors as shelters to afflicted residents or engaged in community outreach.
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And while supporters say the bill does not affect houses of worship because of religious protections, critics note that the bill could still apply to religiously affiliated institutions, schools, and hospitals that receive federal money.
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The letter writer talks about planning the attack and references other attacks on houses of worship, including the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has revised its rules to allow private nonprofit houses of worship to be eligible for disaster disaster relief funds to assist with damages from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
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It exempted houses of worship as explicitly and primarily religious institutions, and it allowed religiously affiliated nonprofits to remove themselves from the provision of insurance coverage while ensuring that their employees and students had coverage.
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Houses of worship, where some parishioners may lean on faith instead of medicine and therapy for mental health issues, seemed a good place to start after an unexpectedly high level of clergy participation, she said.
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Today's white supremacist and neo-Nazi social media trolls have much in common with the angry mobs that beat civil rights activists at lunch counters, defaced houses of worship and stood in the schoolhouse door.
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A proposal backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and initially endorsed this week by his ministers would authorize the government to ban the use of loudspeakers by mosques and other houses of worship across Israel.
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The Israeli Prime Minister said during a recent cabinet meeting that citizens have come to him from "all parts of Israeli society, from all religions, with complaints about the noise" broadcast from houses of worship.
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Despite their different faiths, the two houses of worship are friendly, helpful neighbors — and an example of pluralism in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation at a time of heightened fears over religious intolerance.
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ISIS began its genocide against the Yazidis, an ethno-religious group in Iraq, in 2014 — killing men, taking women into captivity and forcing them into sexual slavery, and destroying Yazidi pilgrimage sites and houses of worship.
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The Islamic Soceity is using social media, radio stations and interfaith efforts with other houses of worship to get the word out that the mosques are available as shelters and are seeking donations to help evacuees.
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EEOC, decided unanimously for religious liberty, Hawley helped to defend the legal principle known as the Ministerial Exception, which protects the rights of houses of worship to make employment decisions in accordance with their religious tenets.
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The township's formula for church parking, one spot for every three people, "is not applicable to mosques, or for that matter, to 'houses of worship,'" the board's lawyer and planner wrote in a January 2013 memo.
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The FBI is also reportedly increasing collaboration with faith leaders on addressing domestic terror threats to houses of worship, such as the New Zealand attacks and the 2018 mass shooting at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue.
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The Obama administration, knowing that right-wing groups would seize on any pretext to limit access to birth control and other reproductive health services, carefully exempted churches, mosques and other houses of worship from the mandate.
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In Unionville, San Diego and elsewhere across the country, it's all but impossible to separate pastors from political operatives, parties from houses of worship, and the redemptive messages of theology from the slogans of partisan placards.
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But none of those experiences prepared me for the media maelstrom in Sutherland Springs, a tiny, poverty-stricken town hit by the unimaginable slaughter of babies, children and adults in one of its houses of worship.
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" On Sunday afternoon, the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, told an interfaith gathering at another synagogue: "Houses of worship do not have to have armed guards to be able to practice their religions.
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Houses of worship — including Christian churches from a range of denominations, as well as synagogues — have positioned themselves as potent forces on progressive issues, promoting activism on social justice causes and inviting in the L.G.B.T.Q. community.
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The installation ceremony filled the soaring Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which sits atop the highest hill in Newark and was designed to resemble the ancient houses of worship in Chartres and Reims in France.
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Such a task force can work with schools to prevent bias-based bullying; work with law enforcement to build trust with the communities they serve; and work with faith leaders to secure houses of worship from attack.
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Image 2 of 2 LONDON – The Church of England owns some of the most impressive houses of worship in the world, with towering facades and spires that have drawn in the faithful for close to 500 years.
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These houses of worship are seen as social safety nets, even as the hundreds of millions of dollars they draw in from attendants each year have propelled preachers into the ranks of the richest people in Africa.
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The Omar Mosque in Paterson, N.J., located near Saipov&aposs home, is among multiple Muslim houses of worship in the New York metro area being studied by the NYPD as possible locations for "budding terrorist conspiracies," NorthJersey.
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From 1970 to 2017, attacks at houses of worship comprised just 1.45% of all terrorist attacks worldwide, according to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland.
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Houses of worship throughout New York City tolled their bells and families of victims of the 493 attacks -- as well as the 249 bombing at the World Trade Center -- for hours recited the names of those killed.
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Under the declaration, which lasts for at least 30 days, anyone under 18 who is not vaccinated against measles is barred from public gathering places, including shopping malls, civic centers, schools, restaurants and even houses of worship.
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Some companies with grandfathered insurance plans are exempt from this mandate, as are houses of worship and closely held corporations with religious objections to birth control (per Burwell v Hobby Lobby Stores, a case decided in 2014).
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There are resources to help understand what constitutes suspicious behavior and what behaviors might indicate a pathway to violence, as well as instructions on how businesses and houses of worship can identify threats and secure their venues.
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"The repeal of the Johnson Amendment would unleash a new wave of dark money into the political system, effectively transforming houses of worship into the equivalent of religious Super PACS," said Larry T. Decker, the coalition's president.
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We also know that houses of worship and their leaders have robust free speech rights under the Johnson Amendment and can speak out on political and social issues—as we are doing by authoring this very piece.
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States with the highest levels of church attendance - including Louisiana and North Carolina - figure among those with the most houses of worship at risk, said a report by Climate Central, a non-profit science and communication organization.
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In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in federal court, the society accused the planning board of breaking a law unanimously passed by Congress in 2000 protecting houses of worship from being unduly burdened by land use regulations.
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More changes may come Many of the religious leaders making the decisions to close houses of worship, ban large gatherings or modify their traditions acknowledge that their actions may be seen as disappointing or overcautious to some.
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But so, too, are the courageous - those men and women in our communities, companies, hospitals, schools, central banks, houses of worship and, yes, elected offices, who are combatting this existential scourge with compassion, effectiveness and moral purpose.
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They're ostensibly meant to serve the new residential buildings rising around them, but it's hard not to see in their proliferation a leader's hope to further the Islamicization of his country by adding more houses of worship.
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In the New York area, about 25 houses of worship are participating in the local branch of the movement, known as the New Sanctuary Coalition, with some 100 more in the pipeline to join, said the Rev.
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A 24 Department of Justice report, for example, found that once federal investigations into discrimination were opened, municipalities settled 23 percent of cases involving non-Muslim houses of worship, compared with 20 percent of cases involving Muslims.
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All five of the attacks have occurred at Kingdom Halls — the name Jehovah's Witnesses use for their houses of worship — in Thurston County, which is located about 60 miles south of Seattle and has a population of 280,000.
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Houses of worship throughout New York City will toll their bells and families of victims of the 93 attacks -- as well as the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center -- will read the names of the people killed.
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"The swift apprehension and punishment of the perpetrator will send a clear message that attacks on mosques, or on any other American houses of worship, will not be tolerated," CAIR's executive director, Nihad Awad, said in a statement.
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Arboleda has since secured other houses of worship willing to transform their walls into public "expressions of common acceptance and tolerance," as he described, but he also emphasized that the project should not be tied to just Kenya.
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It sits on 145 acres between the East New York and Canarsie neighborhoods, with 5,881 apartments in 46 buildings and 15,000 residents, as well as its own power plant, schools, shopping center, houses of worship and ZIP code.
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The centerpiece of the order is a pledge to allow clergy members and houses of worship to endorse political candidates from the pulpit, fulfilling a campaign promise that Mr. Trump repeatedly used to rally his most fervent supporters.
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A poll by the Pew Research Center in 2016 found that though many Americans favor allowing churches and houses of worship to take positions on political and social issues, two-thirds are opposed to having churches endorse candidates.
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The atrocities in New Zealand highlight three emerging trends in the West: Attacks against Muslim targets, the use of social media as a platform for terrorists to share livestream videos, and the violent targeting of houses of worship.
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"Nationally our law enforcement agencies need to step up and acknowledge that our houses of worship are being preyed upon," said Eric L. Adams, the Brooklyn borough president and a retired captain of the New York Police Department.
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"Given recent attacks on houses of worship in this country and around the world, it is incumbent on law enforcement authorities to investigate the possibility of a bias motive for this arson," said Tark Aouadi, the chapter's executive director.
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This provision in the tax code protects our houses of worship and charitable nonprofits by ensuring that they are not torn apart by partisan campaign politics or used as tools by candidates and parties for their own political gain.
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Paul D. Clement, a lawyer for the order of nuns the Little Sisters of the Poor and other challengers, said his clients should be entitled to the outright exemption offered to houses of worship like churches, temples and mosques.
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Mr. de Blasio also said that a small number of houses of worship were continuing to hold religious services, and that they risked fines or having their buildings permanently closed if the police caught them in congregations this weekend.
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Officials with a warrant can arrest undocumented immigrants regardless of whether they're at a church, synagogue or mosque, though US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has said it generally avoids arrests at "sensitive locations," including houses of worship.
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Senior Vice President of Programs at ADL George Selim said the organization's immediate priority is to escalate public security at Jewish houses of worship and institutions, especially during holidays, by collaborating with local FBI special agents and local governments.
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Once again, conscience protection applies to everyone with an bona fide religious or moral objection; not only are houses of worship and ministries of service restored to equal footing before the law, but individual conscience is protected as well.
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The mayor said Sunday authorities will immediately station more officers front of houses of worship and on the streets in Williamsburg, Borough Park and Crown Heights, three Brooklyn communities in which a disproportionate number of attacks have been concentrated.
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Related: The Salacious Ammo Even Donald Trump Won't Use in a Fight Against Hillary Clinton Obama urged people watching on television who had never been to a mosque to think of it as similar to their own houses of worship.
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"Houses of worship are a sacred place in this country, and ATF is committed to devoting the necessary resources to solving this crime," Fred Milanowski, the special agent in charge of the ATF Houston Field Division, said in a statement.
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There have been hundreds of religiously motivated attacks on religious minorities in recent years, some resulting in death, as well as the forced closures of houses of worship and the passage of local bylaws viewed as discriminatory against religious minorities.
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Additionally, any would-be ne'er-do-well would need to individually tamper with hundreds of events—in houses of worship, high school gymnasia, community centers, and building lobbies across 56,000 square miles—to have a serious chance of undermining the results.
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Kennedy v Bremerton School District asks if teachers may overtly practice their religious faith while at a school function; Presbyterian Church in Morristown v Freedom From Religion Foundation examines whether houses of worship can be excluded from government grant programmes.
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Wireless mics are near ubiquitous in modern life, in our schools—think lecture halls and pep rallies—our offices, our hotels and meeting halls, our entertainment venues, musical and theatrical tours, our houses of worship, and our radio and television broadcasts.
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As the first to hear what is really going on in the people's lives, many faith and community leaders have joined the movement to educate and eradicate stigma by hosting MHFA trainings in their houses of worship and community centers.
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Although 57 St. Mark's Place hasn't served as a religious space for many years, other houses of worship in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC continue to open their basement doors to artists, musicians, and performers, regardless of their religious affiliations.
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (Reuters) - After one of the nation's deadliest mass shootings unfolded on their doorstep, pastors and parishioners around the tiny Texas hamlet of Sutherland Springs have begun asking whether guns have a rightful place inside their houses of worship.
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The Washington National Cathedral, one of the nation's most prominent houses of worship, said on Wednesday that it would remove two images of the Confederate battle flag that have been part of its stained-glass windows for more than 60 years.
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In the last four months, Chinese authorities have raided three of the country's most-prominent underground churches, detaining nearly 100 in a wave of pre-Christmas crackdowns on houses of worship that the government claims are threats to the state.
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Organized with Danspace's executive director, Judy Hussie-Taylor, the series examines, among other themes, the connections between houses of worship and experimental dance in New York, with a focus on the history of Danspace, St. Mark's and their surrounding blocks.
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With American officials, Prince Mohammed emphasizes the United Arab Emirates' relative liberalism on social issues: About a third of its cabinet ministers are women and, unlike in neighboring Arab countries, Christians, Hindus and Sikhs are allowed to build houses of worship.
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In the past year, there have been two attacks on houses of worship — the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the Christchurch mosque attacks — inspired by so-called "alt-right" ideas about the threat to Western culture from Jews and Muslim immigration.
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Adding to the tension were donations that poured in to 77 recipients, including not only local charities, houses of worship and parent-teacher associations, but also ad hoc fund-raising websites that were unprepared to track or distribute the largess.
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"Individuals who make any false or baseless reports about the coronavirus in Newark can set off a domino effect that can result in injury to residents and visitors and affect schools, houses of worship, businesses and entire neighborhoods," he added.
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But with a determined focus on deterrence, resolving mental-health treatment deficiencies, creating juvenile rehabilitation programs, defending houses of worship and other Jewish institutions, we can begin to beat back the persistent violence that is afflicting New York's Jewish community.
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In response to the hate crimes, NYPD officials have deployed auxiliary police officers to houses of worship, made sure community affairs officers were in touch with religious leaders and discussed crime prevention strategies, said NYPD Chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison.
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In the open letter posted to 8chan, viewed by CNN, the writer talks about planning an attack and references other attacks on houses of worship, including the shootings at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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The New Jersey ruling, written by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, found that the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders had violated the religious aid clause in the State Constitution when they provided preservation grants to help houses of worship renovate their facilities.
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"While details of the explosion are still under investigation, we cannot ignore that this type of destruction comes at a time when houses of worship are increasingly becoming targets of hate, and communities regularly fear for their safety," she said in a statement.
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The plan for this year's gathering, set for May 8 in New Hampshire, promises to renew a debate over how the company might respond to a series of mass shootings across the United States, including at schools, houses of worship and workplaces.
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A rabbi, a reverend and an imam have a plan for peace in middle America A group of clergymen embark on an initiative to build their houses of worship on the same property in Omaha, Nebraska, to spur interfaith dialogue and peace building.
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Yet if the ban on electoral politics were lifted for 22019(c)(3) entities, then houses of worship and charities could become "super dark money groups" that offer donors not only anonymity for bankrolling electoral activity, but also a charitable tax deduction.
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Ultimately, Shahshahani said, Newton County's moratorium may violate the federal law known as the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), which makes it illegal for local officials to place a "substantial burden" on the religious exercise of houses of worship.
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On the surface, the process seemed straightforward: In November 2011, the group, the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge, led by the former mayor, Mohammad Ali Chaudry, bought a four-acre plot in an area of Basking Ridge where zoning permitted houses of worship.
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New York State officials established a "containment zone" on Tuesday in a suburb with one of the country's largest outbreaks, closing schools, community centers and houses of worship and deploying National Guard troops to decontaminate schools and deliver meals to people under quarantine.
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The affected area is a mix of homes and businesses, and it includes at least one country club, as well as houses of worship and a dozen schools — public, private and religious — where sporting events and student plays were already being canceled.
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BROOKLYN, New York — A recent spate of attacks on houses of worship — including the shootings at a synagogue in San Diego at the end of April and the Easter church bombings in Sri Lanka — have put religious communities on edge across the globe.
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It's also one of the most well-attended celebrations in churches and houses of worship across the US. With 65% of US adults (about 160 million) saying they belong to a church, that's a lot of people potentially headed into communal worship soon.
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It would take another six years before the Church of England agreed to allow divorced people with a spouse still living to remarry in their houses of worship, and in 2005, Charles married Camilla Parker-Bowles, who herself had divorced in 1994.
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"Christians have offered sanctuary for 2,000 years, continuing an ancient biblical practice in which cities and houses of worship provided refuge and asylum for people fleeing injustice," said Christopher Vergara, who works on immigration issues in the ELCA's Metro New York Synod.
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More than 220 years after the Constitution was written — in a 5-4 ruling — the Supreme Court expanded the reach of the Second Amendment, allowing for the absurd — guns in bars, guns in airports and guns in houses of worship, for example.
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"We know this seems ambitious, given Washington's apathy to decades of bloodshed in our schools, neighborhoods, and even our houses of worship," David Hogg, 19, a Parkland survivor and a founder of March for Our Lives, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning.
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More than 5,500 charitable nonprofits, houses of worship and foundations from all 50 states and D.C. signed a separate letter to Congress actively opposing any changes, as did the organization of state law enforcement officials who oversee and regulate 501(c)(3) organizations.
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"We know this seems ambitious, given Washington's apathy to decades of bloodshed in our schools, neighborhoods, and even our houses of worship," David Hogg, 19, a Parkland survivor and a founder of March for Our Lives, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning.
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Without access to show spaces like Skylight Clarkson, Milk Studios or Industria, designers were pushed to exploit the resource that is New York City, staging presentations in borrowed galleries or empty storefronts, in graveyards, deconsecrated houses of worship or seedy gay leather bars.
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Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto on Sunday pushed back against President Trump's suggestion that arming houses of worship instead of enacting stronger gun control laws would stop mass shootings like the one at the Tree of Life Synagogue, where at least 11 congregants were killed.
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However, De Bruyckere does more than passively acknowledge the gallery's interior; she is heavily involved in the alteration of the gallery space and has frequently adopted modes of display typically employed by museums of natural history, houses of worship, and sites for eternal rest.
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In the aftermath of the attack, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for a three-month state of emergency, with many hoping the government will provide more protection to believers, who are targets both at their houses of worship and inside their homes.
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Once houses of worship may permissibly engage in even limited campaign activity, a donor could use the incentive of financial support (or the threat of withdrawing support) to pressure a church to use its influence to support or oppose a candidate before the congregation.
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My cousin had to cancel his bar mitzvah, which was planned for Saturday in Washington, DC. Some 245 people were scheduled to be there, but like many houses of worship this week, the synagogue suspended its services to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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Mr. Adams, who spoke outside Ohel Bais Ezra Children's Home and Family Services Center, urged off-duty officers to bring guns when they attend religious services, and said they would be an "extension" to the on-duty officers that already protect many houses of worship.
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When people came out, it made it harder for others to cling to the belief that they did not have L.G.B.T. people in their families, or that no L.G.B.T. people lived in their neighborhoods, attended services at their houses of worship or worked alongside them.
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Michele Massey, a former Jersey City councilwoman who is the executive director of an organization that oversees a commercial corridor along Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, said Hasidim had opened a synagogue on the avenue despite a recent zoning change forbidding new houses of worship.
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Police officers are scheduled to patrol the streets of Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg, neighborhoods with a large numbers of Jewish residents, where they also plan to visit houses of worship and other "critical areas in the community," Mr. de Blasio added on Twitter.
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The company and rivals including Sturm Ruger have been under pressure amid a series of mass shootings at U.S. schools, colleges and houses of worship such as an attack in West Texas on August 31 that killed seven and wounded 22 others, including a toddler.
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The Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes will oversee neighborhood safety coalitions in the three Brooklyn neighborhoods, and the New York Police Department will also step up its presence at houses of worship and during local events in the communities, de Blasio's office said.
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Certainly, there's a bottom line to worry about if the group loses its nonprofit status -- those tax breaks are nice -- but the group should be more concerned about the growing national distaste for people being murdered in houses of worship, concerts, movie theaters and kindergarten classrooms.
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"With approximately 30,000 men, women and children dying each year at the barrel of a gun in elementary schools, movie theaters, workplaces, houses of worship and on live television, the United States faces a public health crisis of gun violence," said the AMA's president, Dr. Steven Stack.
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The Obama administration offered conscientious exemptions to churches and other houses of worship from the so-called "contraceptive mandate", and—following litigation—concocted a work-around whereby religiously affiliated non-profit groups could opt out while female employees could receive free birth control through a third party.
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Acts of violence anywhere fly in the face of this principle, but ones in houses of worship do so even more heinously because they attempt to threaten the very reason worshipers have gathered -- to share the two-fold love they feel called to embody and express.
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A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said the department has a Center for Faith and Opportunity that works with houses of worship to prepare for acts of terrorism and there are other programs that religious and other communities can use to help protect against hate crimes.
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And the sound of this bell will be echoed by others in houses of worship and town squares all across this country — an echo of the ringing bells that signaled Emancipation more than a century and a half ago; the sound, and the anthem, of American freedom.
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"There can be no tolerance for barbaric groups that claim to act in the name of a faith but attack houses of worship and murder the innocent and defenseless while at prayer," White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement that followed Trump's tweet.
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And, far from government intervention to keep us in our homes, houses of worship and schools, to protect buildings emblematic of black history, we see policies like destructive zoning, with false "trickle down" affordability, changes that incentivize yet more gentrification, sure to transfigure our Harlem forever.
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It was difficult to tell, but I would estimate that perhaps a fifth or a fourth of the audience, on hearing Obama's warning against vandalizing houses of worship and inciting against minorities — which one might hope would be uncontroversial opinions — chose to sit in quiet protest.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Schools, houses of worship and large gathering venues in part of the New York City suburb of New Rochelle will shut down for two weeks in an effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak at its local epicenter, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday.
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Houses of worship that have been damaged in hurricanes could receive grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to rebuild — even if they are using the taxpayer funds to hire only staff members who share their religious beliefs, rather than making the positions open to all.
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The Greater Cincinnati area is also unique because it's home to some of the region's most historic religious sites and houses of worship — from the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, which opened in 1837, to Plum Street Temple, a Jewish synagogue known for its detailed architecture.
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Under the amendment, houses of worship and other nonprofit organizations that do endorse candidates are supposed to be investigated by the I.R.S. It is impossible to know how many churches have been targeted by the agency over the years because it does not make investigations public.
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But on Thursday, Mr. Gonzalez and Eric T. Schneiderman, the state attorney general, held a news conference to say that even that was too much and that ICE should treat courthouses as sensitive locations — like hospitals, houses of worship and schools — where it does not make arrests.
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And as the polls close at night, reports emerge that turnout has reached historic lows, from a mix of voter apathy and fears of catching the deadly new virus that's been spreading silently and closing schools and houses of worship in major cities across the country.
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Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which also tracks anti-Semitic activity, said that he thought that the recent harassment of community centers was driven by the perception that they were so-called soft targets, especially in comparison to houses of worship.
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Or rather, they resembled what we dreamed of being, the better versions of ourselves who turned heads, drove fast cars, and recognized the six most expensive whiskies by smell alone; whose names topped the donor rolls of operas, orchestras, and houses of worship; who were admired, respected, adored.
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"Mosque leaders should do all they can to protect their houses of worship by working with local law enforcement authorities, installing security cameras and employing security officers during the daily prayers," said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, executive director of the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
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At a time when religious communities face a far more real and existential threat of losing their tax-exempt status for houses of worship and schools, these unnecessary laws protecting religious people from extremely rare incidents in bathrooms and bakeries open the door to political scrutiny and backlash.
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"With approximately 30,000 men, women and children dying each year at the barrel of a gun in elementary schools, movie theaters, workplaces, houses of worship and on live television, the United States faces a public health crisis of gun violence," Dr. Steven Stack, AMA president, said in a statement.
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But we are concerned that this might change if the Trump administration and several members of Congress get their way by repealing the Johnson Amendment, which is the law that prohibits houses of worship, and all 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt organizations, from endorsing or opposing political candidates.
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Houses of worship can take positions on issues of moral, social or political concern; lobby on legislation and endorse or oppose non-partisan referendums; host candidate forums and distribute answers to candidate questionnaires; and encourage people to vote, including through voter registration drives and getting people to the polls.
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"There's a history of churches and synagogues and other houses of worship falling victim to construction fires," he said, adding that one of the reasons for the peril was the proximity of open flames on torches, sparks from welders and other hazards on scaffolding to other flammable materials.
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In recent years, there have been hundreds of cases of hard-line Islamic groups harassing, attacking and in some cases even killing religious minorities including Christians, Shiite Muslims and members of the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect, and forcibly closing hundreds of churches and other houses of worship across the country.
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Since 2011, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has had a policy regarding what it calls "sensitive locations," including schools, health care facilities and houses of worship, where enforcement actions "should generally be avoided," according to Carissa Cutrell, a spokeswoman for the agency, which is under the Department of Homeland Security.
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" The accused terrorist is clearly a man of his time, wrote Peter Bergen, since the atrocity combines "three emerging trends in the West: attacks against Muslim targets, the use of social media as a platform for terrorists to share livestream videos, and the violent targeting of houses of worship.
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The shooting, at Chabad of Poway, about 25 miles north of San Diego, is the most recent in a series of deadly attacks at houses of worship, including the mass shooting at mosques in New Zealand last month and the church bombings in Sri Lanka this past week.
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What's more, there are multiple stories of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents appearing outside of schools, at soup kitchens, at houses of worship, and even inside of a family courtroom in Texas where a woman who had sought an order of protection against her allegedly abusive partner was arrested.
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Pilot Point, Texas (CNN)While active-shooter training is not new to houses of worship, the massacre this month at a Texas church has renewed attention to their vulnerability and the fine line religious leaders walk as they try to create a welcoming atmosphere that doesn't tempt a would-be shooter.
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The scene will repeat at some of the most well-known houses of worship in New York: St. Patrick's Cathedral, the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York; Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church; and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, seat of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.
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Not only are schools closed, but so are many places where co-parents have found common ground for custody exchanges, like movie theaters, libraries, restaurants, houses of worship and community centers (although even under the strictest shelter-in-place protocols parents could do child pickups at grocery stores or pharmacies).
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As president, Biden will take bold action to address the scourge of gun violence that plagues our schools, houses of worship, shopping centers and beyond — once again banning assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, implementing universal background checks, pushing for smart gun technology, and more to make our communities safer.
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It could, in effect, instruct the I.R.S. to "carve as wide a berth as possible" and allow churches and other houses of worship to participate openly in campaigns for political candidates without any repercussions, said Richard W. Garnett, a law professor at Notre Dame and an expert on church/state issues.
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" New York Police Department Commissioner Dermot Shea said the department had already begun boosting deployment to all houses of worship following a shooting in Jersey City earlier this month in a Jewish market, as well as "an increase in swastikas, an increase in hate speech, escalation into shoving" and "some assaults.
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"The President will call on the international community to take concrete steps to prevent attacks against people on the basis of their religion or beliefs and to ensure the sanctity of houses of worship and all public spaces for all faiths," White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham in a statement on Tuesday.
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Over the weekend, the NYPD had beefed up patrols in Brooklyn neighborhoods with large Jewish populations after a string of anti-Semitic attacks during Hanukkah, per AP. Besides making officers more visible in Borough Park, Crown Heights and Williamsburg, police will boost visits to houses of worship and other places.
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The New Jersey decision last week came less than a year after the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in a case from Missouri that states must sometimes provide aid to religious groups even when their state constitutions prohibit the use of public funds for the benefit of houses of worship.
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Holocaust remembrance posed a threat to the atheist Kremlin dictatorship, which didn't tolerate unsanctioned monuments, houses of worship or any location that could become a potential focal point for ethnic and religious organization; additionally, acknowledging the ethnic roots of the genocide would invariably draw attention to the Soviet Union's own anti-Semitism.
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New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, California, Louisiana, and Ohio have all issued stay-at-home orders at the beginning of this week or last, but each has a specific stipulation pertaining to houses of worship, either designating them as "essential," saying that they are not ordered to be closed, or exempting them from penalties.
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"The President is working to broaden international support for ongoing efforts to protect religious freedom in the wake of increasing persecution of people on the basis of their beliefs and a growing number of attacks on and destruction of houses of worship by state and non-state actors," the White House announced Wednesday.
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Either way, he said, it will take a lot more open dialogue and a lot of actively holding each other accountable in every space we can manage — from the workplace, to houses of worship, to anywhere else that people gather and associate with one another — to combat misogyny and violence against women.
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These stories also highlight how racism has affected all people of color in 2018 — a year in which Latinos were openly threatened with calls to ICE, Arabic speakers were subjected to racist rants for daring to use their language in public, and people carried out hate crimes targeting nonwhite houses of worship.
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"We have decided as a country not to do research on this problem, so we don't understand it," said Dr. Wintemute, a leading researcher on gun violence who identified himself as a member of the N.R.A. But recently, mass shootings — at schools and music venues and houses of worship — have rocked the American consciousness.
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"Given recent attacks on houses of worship in this country and around the world, it is incumbent on law enforcement authorities to investigate the possibility of a bias motive for this arson," Tark Aouadi, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Connecticut said in a statement about the New Haven fire.
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As efforts in the city have ramped up, Mr. Cuomo also has tried to limit the spread of the virus in Westchester, creating a "containment area" in New Rochelle, closing schools, houses of worship and other large gathering spaces within one mile of a synagogue believed to be the center of the outbreak there.
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The 3.3 percent drop continues the general decline of violent crime in the U.S since the early 85033s, but this trend also means that our law enforcement officials need to become increasingly proactive in their efforts to prevent increasingly publicized, tragic incidents of mass murder in sacred places like schools and houses of worship.
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" And critically for a pope who has seen his flock massacred in their churches, and for Muslim and Jewish minorities who have seen their houses of worship desecrated, the document asserts that the "protection of places of worship — synagogues, churches and mosques — is a duty guaranteed by religions, human values, laws and international agreements.
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The start of what is likely to be a weeks-long operation came four days after a court ruled that shelters could come down — but not common areas like houses of worship, a school, a women's center and library, much of it built with the help of French and British volunteers appalled by conditions in the makeshift camp.
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Its mostly Orthodox population is divided among three main churches; the newly independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate would gain influence and most likely seek to take over houses of worship and other property from the church under Moscow's jurisdiction, which, until now, was the largest in Ukraine and the only one recognized by other churches.
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American society at large has been unable or unwilling to mount a response to mass shootings, which have killed more than 140 people in schools since the Sandy Hook shootings, and so the survival tactics and ingenuity of individuals have been incorporated into lessons for "active shooter" training provided to schools, workplaces and houses of worship.
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Recently, the organization published a book about Yorkville that includes a few buildings in the East 60s, as well as many spots designed to serve immigrants, including houses of worship like St. Joseph's Church on East 87th Street, built in 1884 by the German community, where the German-born Pope Benedict XVI led a prayer service in 2008.
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In the case of banning assault rifles this action was taken for a decade until special interests and political cowards let the ban expire and helped paved the way for carnage that continues in our classrooms, and killing that continues from a country music concert in Nevada to houses of worship in South Carolina and Texas.
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Though many urban Jewish centers and synagogues have already had armed guards or security in place for many years, our small-town and rural houses of worship, like many churches, are open to people during services on Shabbat (our sabbath) and high holidays such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and other days of atonement, festivals and celebrations.
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Houses of worship are more likely to be chosen as caucus locations when the county is religiously diverse More noteworthy is that after controlling for population size, absentee voting, and voter partisanship in the county (using the presidential vote share), there is a strong relationship between religious pluralism and choosing a church as a caucus site.
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"In a way, the ideologue or extremist is exposing their own weaknesses and insecurity when they target houses of worship, because not only do they show how cowardly they are for attacking innocent lives, but also that whatever they claim to stand for is so fragile that it can be threatened by the non-violent prayers and rituals of another group," Barzegar said.
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Letters To the Editor: With all the coverage The Times has been giving to the new "tax reform" plan being touted by Republicans, little attention is being paid to what could easily be its most damaging provision: the repeal of the Johnson Amendment, a move that would allow churches and other tax-exempt houses of worship to engage in political activities.
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But as my research has shown, the sense of meaningfulness provided by religion is not so easily replicated in nonreligious settings: When Americans abandon traditional houses of worship, they increasingly search for alternative religious-like experiences (including those involving ideas about ghosts or space aliens) in order to feel as if they are part of something larger and more meaningful than their brief mortal lives.
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"This event seeks to highlight and broaden international support for protecting religious freedom in the wake of increasing persecution of people on the basis of their own beliefs and faiths, and a growing number of attacks on and destruction of houses of worship, religious sites, and relics by state and nonstate actors," a senior administration official told reporters on Friday during a briefing call about Trump's trip.
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In the face of anticipated rollbacks in health care coverage being proposed by the Trump administration in the name of "religious freedom," we must be willing to engage with the hard question of how to balance an individual's need to control her own health choices (which requires affordable access) with the sincere religious views of houses of worship, religiously affiliated nonprofits, and other similar institutions providing insurance coverage.
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Andrew Cuomo designated the one-mile radius around the synagogue as a containment zone in which schools, houses of worship, and other public spaces are shut down and large gatherings banned — the first such designation in any city in the US. Cuomo announced that National Guard troops would arrive on Thursday to disinfect common areas within the zone and deliver food to quarantined residents and kids home from school.
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Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto (D) said Sunday that he disagrees with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's suggestion that armed guards at houses of worship could prevent shootings like the one at a synagogue in the city a day earlier.
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"Please know I share the concerns expressed by my constituents that the IRS and other relevant agencies are intruding on the First Amendment rights of churches and other houses of worship across the State of Texas in enforcement of the Johnson Amendment," Cornyn said this week in a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE.
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"Please know I share the concerns expressed by my constituents that the IRS and other relevant agencies are intruding on the First Amendment rights of churches and other houses of worship across the State of Texas in enforcement of the Johnson Amendment," Cornyn said this week in a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE.
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She describes Jewish life as a pinball game, a pleasant cycle of recapitulation, handed down with only minor variations: Once that princess pinball was whacked out of her slot, she hit the top of the board and tumbled down, hole to hole — the schools, the Houses of Worship, the Junior Holiday and Varieties, the Blind Dance, the camps, the tour of California, the tour to Europe, the college, the marriage, then — thwock — out comes a new princess-pinball and she drops into the last hole and people rub their eyes a few times at Riverside Memorial.
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Among other things: Attention will be diverted from missions as politicians and their operatives hound 501(c)(3) organizations for endorsements and resources; board governance will falter as board meetings become shouting matches about who to endorse in the primary and then general elections for every office at every level of government; donations for missions will fall when current or potential donors see that an organization endorsed this candidate or that; partisan donors will pressure organizations to endorse the donors' preferred candidates; and the only real refuge for many Americans to escape caustic partisan politics — charitable nonprofits, houses of worship, and foundations — will disappear.
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