Each player belongs to one of two teams: a majority religious group or a minority religious group.
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Polls suggest that evangelicals are the largest religious group most opposed to gun control laws, and that we're the religious group most likely to have access to guns.
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The fact is, this amendment singled out one religious group.
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Jennifer Butler of the liberal religious group Faith in Public Life.
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It was home to the racist religious group The Aryan Nations.
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The Harmonists, a German religious group, founded Economy, Pennsylvania, in 1824.
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That made them the least-educated religious group in the country.
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In 2014, they surpassed atheists as the country's "least accepted" religious group.
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It said Uighur Muslims and the Falun Gong religious group were affected.
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Today, Muslims constitute the "most Democratic-identifying religious group" in the country.
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Never again would genocide devastate any ethnic, national, racial or religious group.
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You can see the profound shaping effect in another religious group: Catholics.
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Who knows what race, religious group, or professional sector will be scrutinized tomorrow?
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The non-religious group was united by their commitment to a common interest .
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It would be the same if it was about a particular religious group.
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It only verbalized a clear desire to keep out an entire religious group.
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The religiously unaffiliated make up the most popular religious group in 20 states.
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Now, though, Cruz has an opportunity to win over another religious group: Mormons.
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Many cases have been traced back to the secretive religious group called Shincheonji.
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It doesn't justify Hindus reacting placidly to the subjugation of another religious group.
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"The conservative religious group is presenting themselves as a solid block," Abolafia said.
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While Trump accurately referred to Buddhist, Sikhs, and Jains — three religious groups that also celebrate the holiday — he omitted Hindus, the religious group with which the holiday is most closely associated, and the largest religious group to celebrate the holiday.
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He said the group is a death cult, rather than a legitimate religious group.
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It does not, like the initial order, prioritize any religious group for refugee admission.
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In 85033, Russia officially banned the religious group and declared it an extremist organization.
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But this Designated Survivor-esque scene was definitely carried out by some religious group.
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Every religious group and every group of people goes through their ups and downs.
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He is scheduled to address the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a conservative religious group.
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Christians were higher — by fairly big margins — than every other religious group except Jews.
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The two have described the religious group a "fundamentalist group for millennials" that formed online.
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Challenge the patriarchs in your religious group when they enable the oppression of women. 66.
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Iran's English-language Press TV said a religious group was behind the attack, without elaborating.
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Critics of this law see it as unconstitutional for purposely leaving out a religious group.
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And when any religious group is targeted, we all have a responsibility to speak up.
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Their tithes are distributed to each religious group according to the size of its flock.
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In 2017, hate crimes against American Jews spiked more than against any other religious group.
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He even briefly aligned himself with the Nation of Islam, a black separatist religious group.
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" But now, "It's 'Did my racial or religious group just lose status in our nation?
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You might be part of a religious group that doesn't accept transgender identity as a possibility.
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Balancing the political strength of each religious group seemed like a way of keeping the peace.
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Jews are now the country's best liked religious group—but the warm attitudes transcend philo-Semitism.
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Why is it wrong to defame a religious group if it will get you more votes?
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Because real people get hurt when we let one conservative religious group reign over all Americans.
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In the meantime, Muslims are expected to surpass Jews as the second-largest religious group. Why?
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A few measures, like the frequency of arguments with relatives, looked worse for the religious group.
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A recent Pew poll found that Americans felt "warmer" about Jews than any other religious group.
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More than half of the country's cases are linked to the Shincheongji religious group in Daegu.
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About half of the cases there are linked to a branch of a controversial religious group.
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"Every religious group feels vulnerable right now as the violence feels unpredictable and chaotic," he said.
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Relatives have said the mother and daughter may have been indoctrinated into an unspecified online religious group.
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White evangelicals remain the only religious group in America to view Trump favorably according to the poll.
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A new religious group in the US House of Representatives is advocating for more representation and influence.
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He said an entire religious group should not be held responsible for the actions of one person.
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Her father was a member of a strict religious group in California that Tasneem declined to name.
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Federal agents raided the compound of a religious group whose leader was accused of stockpiling illegal weapons.
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Provincial officials say the bill targets all face coverings and doesn't discriminate against a particular religious group.
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It was the fifth attack this year targeting the religious group in Washington state, federal officials said.
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No racial, ethnic, or religious group is devoid of members who can be loud, crass, and obnoxious.
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Sikh Americans are not Muslim, and they are in fact part of a wholly different religious group.
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Most countries have a majority ethnic or religious group whose customs, culture and religion dominate public life.
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"If you commit a crime, you are not forgiven because you are united as a religious group."
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Just a couple of decades ago, about 95 percent of Americans reported belonging to a religious group.
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But Muslims, India's second largest religious group, at 200 million, would not have the same legal protection.
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Each group responded strongly to the representation of their particular religious group being isolated and persecuted by Nazis.
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Besides the Rohingyas, they will have in mind the Yazidis, an ethno-religious group mostly from northern Iraq.
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None of those in the religious group with previous psychiatric history had ever encountered difficulty from taking LSD.
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Dr. Ralph Reed, the chairman of the conservative religious group, introduced Cruz, who then spoke before the crowd.
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The Epoch Times is a non-profit publication that's tied to a Chinese religious group named Falun Gong.
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And violence against a religious group, in a house of God, tears at the heart of our humanity.
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Similar data from the Public Religion Research Institute puts the spiritual but not religious group at 18 percent.
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Still, experts say Jews have been the largest religious group in the city for the last 150 years.
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Islam is the largest minority religious group in India, with over 200 million Muslims living in the country.
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The case has been condemned by rights groups as part of a broader crackdown on the religious group.
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Many of the cases were people connected to a religious group that promotes alternative healing and avoids vaccinations.
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A 2012 Pew study tracked the rise of a new religious group: the "nones," or the religiously unaffiliated.
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Google's Play Store is currently hosting a gay conversion therapy app from a religious group called Living Hope Ministries.
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Conservative Christians are the religious group most likely to adopt, but also the group most likely to oppose homosexuality.
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Green's mother-in-law is Deborah Green, who co-founded the religious group in 1981 with her husband, James.
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Strong social affiliations — such as being part of a religious group, hobbyist circle or exercise group — have positive effects.
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Part of the reason is an overall decline in the number of people who identify with a religious group.
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It's difficult to see how Muslims, or any other religious group, could pose a threat to Myanmar's dominant religion.
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Black Protestants were by far the most likely religious group to hear political endorsements from members of their clergy.
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" Twitter's existing policy on hateful conduct does, in fact, prohibit tweets that assert "all [insert religious group] are terrorists.
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He sided with a religious group, Little Sisters of the Poor, that claimed the law violated its religious freedom.
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His religious group, which critics described as a cult, had branches in other states including New Jersey and Tennessee.
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Even then, even as the second largest religious group, Muslims will still only account for 2.1% of the population.
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Twenty-six percent of those who said they were unaffiliated with a religious group said they sympathize with Israel.
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Wiesman in which he condemned as an "ominous sign" the disproportionate burden placed on one religious group ("devout Christians").
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Yet it's complicated, and there is one religious group that is extremely good at living conservative family values: Mormons.
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The religious group called Shincheonji has long been suspected of being the center of the outbreak in the country.
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The religious group says it is cooperating with local authorities, and has shut down all church services and gatherings.
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"Between 2006 and 2018, Jews were the religious group most frequently targeted in reported bias incidents," the report said.
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According to FBI statistics, there were more hate crimes against Jews in 22019 than against any other religious group.
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Lyra faces off against the Church, a powerful religious group that looks to understand the nature of the universe.
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It was a stunning reversal from prior efforts by the religious group that failed to win a majority vote.
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Employees were rebuked when a report mentioned Falun Gong, the religious group that Beijing considers a cult, they said.
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According to the outlet, the program director claims JetBlue wrongly profiled him as having measles because of his religious group.
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Between 2002 and 2007, 73,000 Seventh Day Adventists, a religious group in America, participated in a study of eating habits.
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However, it was associating a certain product that is owned by a religious group with bad decisions and drunk driving.
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"It's refreshing to see that we're not looking at one religious group as the primary influence in elections," Liddell said.
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It was not immediately possible to reach representatives of the religious group or lawyers for those found guilty for comment.
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Soon Lyra finds herself caught up in a struggle between a powerful religious group and those who are resisting it.
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When you consider sheer numbers, there were more reports of hate crimes against Jews than against any other religious group.
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The study confirms previous research predicting that Muslims will be the fastest-growing religious group during the next few decades.
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A modern-day Zion Park's Olive Tree religious group was a particularly attractive option for many Christians in South Korea.
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In South Korea, authorities determined early that its main outbreak stemmed from one religious group in the city of Daegu.
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Brazil's minister for women and families, an evangelical pastor, formulated a new abstinence campaign in consultation with a religious group.
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Encouraging a society where we judge people as individuals, not for belonging to an ethnic or religious group, is crucial.
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We fully understand that the character of a neighborhood changes when members of a new ethnic or religious group arrive.
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An appeal was refused in June 2017 continuing years of state-sponsored persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses as a religious group.
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Why it matters: This is one religious group that Trump is struggling with, despite Mormon voters' widespread support of the GOP.
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WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. – The latest battle pitting a religious group against a town zoning board is playing out in federal court.
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Song Zhiyu, 43, from Hebei Province, is a member of Falun Gong, a religious group banned as a cult in China.
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Ekonomou assisted Sekulow in a famous case involving the religious group Jews for Jesus before the Supreme Court in the 1980s.
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Just this week, the Southern Baptist Convention, the second largest religious group in the country, passed a resolution condemning the flag.
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Taken together, these changes have produced a kaleidoscope society defined by the absence of any single dominant racial or religious group.
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"We got all the necessary approvals that were needed at the time," said Jinit Shah, vice chairman of the religious group.
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Jews are as much a part of the American social, economic and cultural fabric as any other ethnic or religious group.
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The situation had obviously escalated after the racial and homophobic jeers of the religious group known as the Black Hebrew Israelites.
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Wirathu is a leading light in Ma Ba Tha, a religious group accused of whipping up anti-Muslim sentiment in Myanmar.
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Black people are still the most targeted racial group in Canada, while Jewish people remain the most targeted religious group overall.
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They didn't enjoy the experience nearly as much as the other religious group and relatively few said they wanted a relationship.
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More than half of its 000,612 cases are linked to a branch of the Shincheonji religious group in the country's south.
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So long as nationalism is associated with one particular ethnic or religious group, it will serve to exclude and disadvantage others.
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The dramatic rise in the country's cases stems from the city of Daegu, and specifically, a secretive religious group called Shincheonji.
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The Daegu outbreak had been centered around the Shincheonji religious group, but the virus appears to have spread now beyond practitioners.
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Some members of the minority religious group in India increasingly see themselves as second-class citizens in the predominantly Hindu country.
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Many of the new cases were from the city of Daegu and were related to a homegrown religious group, Yonhap reported.
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The religious group, Priests for Life, argued it was being forced to provide health coverage for contraceptives despite its religious objections.
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The rejection of an entire religious group is now normalized in a segment of American politics, in large part thanks to Trump.
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The law was introduced by a conservative religious group as an initiated state statute, and later took effect under former Democratic Gov.
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This weekend, BuzzFeed News reported how Twitter had suspended dozens of suspicious Hebrew-language accounts run by a controversial Chinese religious group.
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No one challenged Cersei after she murdered a beloved family and an entire religious group, leading to the death of King Tommen.
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In 2017, the number of Catholics in Germany inched downwards by 270,000 to 23.3m but they remain the country's largest religious group.
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In America, of all places, people should be treated as individuals and not as stereotypes from a racial, ethnic or religious group.
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The restaurant chain Mo' Bettahs has found success appealing to Utah's dominant religious group: Mormons, who have long had ties to Polynesia.
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They're joined by the Children of Atom, a religious group that literally worships radiation, and sees the fog as a beautiful omen.
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"I do not support the idea that Muslims as a religious group should be denied entry to the United States," he said.
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"We must absolutely not allow any foreign religious group or individual to interfere in our country's religions," the United Front book says.
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All other members of both chambers identify as a member of a religious group or have declined to specify their religious identification.
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"Mormons are the only religious group besides the Jews who have been ordered by the government to be extinguished, killed," he said.
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At the same time, millennials are the least religious group of people in America — only about 27 percent attend weekly religious services.
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They are some of the most dynamic congregations in China, and widely seen as the fastest-growing religious group in the country.
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The United Nations defines genocide as acts meant to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group in whole or in part.
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A ban on any religious group goes against the very freedom to practice religion instilled in this country by the First Amendment.
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Many of them are linked to a secretive religious group, known as the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, in the city of Daegu.
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It defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".
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In one study, white evangelicals were the only religious group surveyed where a plurality (44 percent) had a "negative" view of Muslims.
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The results may vary by religious group as well, and there were no men included in the Nurses' Health Study, VanderWeele noted.
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No claim of responsibility The attack targeted one of the most symbolic religious sites for Copts, an ethno-religious group centered in Egypt.
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" Sessions said Tuesday he would not support the "idea that Muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the United States.
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While white evangelicals may be quite literal in their interpretations and representations of Christianity, they're also the only religious group that supports Trump.
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Others have taken to donning yellow crescents on their coats as a symbolic gesture of support for the country's most embattled religious group.
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Growing up, my mom told me several times that Lutherans have the highest ownership rate of any religious group in the United States.
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The standoff in Waco took place in 1993 when federal agents raided the ranch of a religious group known as the Branch Davidians.
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The Army National Guard kicked out two soldiers in December after activists uncovered their membership in a religious group with white supremacist ties.
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Thirty-five percent say they are unaffiliated with any religious group, compared with 23 percent of Generation X (born between 1965 and 1980).
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The Supreme Court ruling overturned the conviction of a conscientious objector who was a Jehovah's Witness—a member of a pacifist religious group.
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Video also showed that the Black Hebrew Israelites, a radical religious group, were heckling the boys (and numerous other passersby) before Phillips appeared.
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The idea that the 9/11 attacks inspired widespread, ongoing animosity directed at an entire religious group is too simple of a story.
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In fact, he was part of a religious group that called themselves the "Disciples" and claimed they ate acid every weekend without issue.
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A bill intended to ban child marriage in Pakistan fell apart after a prominent religious group spoke against it, The Washington Post reports.
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So apparently, if you are not a practicing member of a religious group, you have no standing with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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In other cases, our social links to, say, a religious group can provide much-needed aid or financial assistance in times of need.
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Once the link to the religious group was established, authorities sprang into action, quarantining attendees, disinfecting buildings, and closing down the group's services.
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Breaking survey responses down by participants' faith, analysts found majority support for anti-discrimination measures for L.G.B.T. people from every major religious group.
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Once the link to the religious group was established, authorities decided to quarantine all attendees of the meeting the 2003st case had attended.
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And roughly half the patients in the country are members of the Shincheonji religious group, which has a large following in the city.
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More than half of South Korea's total infected patients are either members of the religious group or had contact with a church member.
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The Convention defines genocide as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".
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He was also a follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, a fringe religious group that has expressed hostility to Jews, officials said.
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According to the Vatican, Pope Francis was referring to the Community of St. John, a religious group founded in France in the 1970s.
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The Army National Guard has booted two members because they were members of a pagan religious group that's been tied to white supremacists.
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The China-based app censored videos related Tiananmen Square, an independent Tibet, and Falun Gong, a religious group that is banned in China.
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They are the only major religious group still strongly opposed to same-sex marriage, polling showed, with most others supportive and black Protestants divided.
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Weird and mesmerizing, it follows a couple who are in a religious group that sure seems like a cult, at least from the outside.
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In the video, Black Israelites, a radical religious group, are seen shouting at the horde of boys, who respond with group chants and taunts.
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There is also Shen Yun, a dance troupe founded in 2006 by devotees of Falun Gong, a religious group that is banned in China.
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The young couple are members of the Followers of Christ, a small religious group that authorities allege rejects medical care, relying on faith healing.
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Among Democrats, Republicans and members of every large religious group (other than evangelicals), a majority of respondents said a candidate's sexual orientation is irrelevant.
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In The Handmaid's Tale, mass pollution and growing infertility has led to a coup by a religious group known as the Sons of Jacob.
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"One person at work told another colleague of mine … I really think she's in a sect or some kind of religious group," Kahl joked.
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Looking in greater detail, the survey found that 232% of women round the world identified with a religious group compared with 21970% of men.
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As a Pew poll showed in 2014, Jews give a lower approval rating to evangelical Christians (34%) than to any other major religious group.
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But the NBC News report tells another story of the publication's origins, and its business ties to a Chinese religious group named Falun Gong.
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But there are signs that Mormons — who represent the most reliably Republican religious group in the country — may not fall in line so easily.
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So my concern is that when the state offers tax incentives to what is essentially a religious enterprise, they are promoting that religious group.
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As a lawyer at the Beijing Fengrui law firm, he represented members of a banned religious group, Falun Gong, and helped train legal activists.
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Justified or not, these fears are likely driving the majority of Trump supporters to embrace discrimination at the border against a specific religious group.
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The Kansas City Star reported Wednesday that Hawley made the remarks at an event hosted by a religious group, Missouri Renewal Project, in December.
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In August, the D.N.C. passed a resolution saying "religiously unaffiliated Americans" are the largest "religious group" in the party and "overwhelmingly" share Democrats' values.
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The challenge was brought by a religious group that argued it was being forced to provide health coverage for contraceptives despite its religious objections.
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They were members of the religious group Heaven's Gate and had committed mass suicide, believing they were destined to go to a better world.
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"Blocking the construction of homes to prevent a religious group from living in a community is flat out discriminatory," James said in a statement.
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Another is Bumrungrad Pcl.. Muslims represent the second biggest religious group in Thailand behind Buddhists, but make up only about 5 percent of the population.
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This episode also shows the growing threat of the High Sparrow's Faith Militant and Cersei's biggest mistake by giving the religious group too much power.
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Twitter has suspended dozens of suspicious Hebrew-language accounts run by a controversial Chinese religious group ahead of Israel's national elections, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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But when secular liberals ignore the rise of intolerance fomented by one religious group against another, they risk damaging the values they claim to hold.
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It introduces Heloise, a 16-year-old girl who finds herself clashing with the Order, a religious group that violently puts down any magic users.
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Contempt for and irrational fear of a religious group cannot be squared, Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote, with the First Amendment's bar on religious discrimination.
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A religious group is calling for Netflix to cancel the new series Good Omens — the only problem is, the show streams on Amazon Prime Video.
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The attorney for El Aposento Alto, Alberto Santana, told local broadcaster RPP that the religious group had documents showing it had legally purchased the property.
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In years past, the Democratic Party was a steady home for many American Jews – the religious group that forms the core of pro-Israel voters.
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However, it's important to recognize that white evangelical support for family separation is higher than those of any other religious group cited in the poll.
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Another is Bumrungrad Pcl.. Muslims represent the second biggest religious group in Thailand behind Buddhists, but make up only about 5 percent of the population.
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Under the Pan European Game Information (PEGI) rating system, the "discrimination" category currently applies to games that incite hatred against an ethnic or religious group.
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Iglesia ni Cristo, a large religious group, set off 700,000 fireworks for a show lasting nearly an hour, in order to break Norway's previous record.
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"I don't know of any other religious group that has been as successful in achieving its political objectives in such a stealthy way," he says.
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The only other religious group of Americans that are as consistently conservative (politically and ideologically) as Orthodox Jews are white, evangelical Christians, according to Pew.
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The complaint accuses him of conspiring with members of the religious group Lev Tahor to kidnap the siblings and take them south of the border.
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Among the 350 families he studied, no religious group was more effective in passing on their religious identity and beliefs to their children than Mormons.
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"We fight for all Indonesians regardless of their ethnicity, ethnic group, religious group, whatever their race," Mr. Prabowo said Friday after filing his campaign paperwork.
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In Turkey, Gulen still faces charges of plotting against a rival religious group by fabricating evidence and charges, as well as trying to overthrow Erdogan.
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And roughly half the patients in the country are members of the Shincheonji religious group, a church that has a large following in the city.
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The religious group leader was the first high profile figure convicted on terrorism financing charges in Pakistan, which denies regular accusations that it shelters militants.
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But on the human rights level, we all have the duty to defend a religious group and people from unspeakable bullying by a governmental despot.
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But Mr Jadwat then waffled, saying that the text of the order was itself damning, even without evidence of presidential animus toward a specific religious group.
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It is still unclear what these steps would mean and if it would target any particular religious group as the president stated on the campaign trail.
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As I've written elsewhere, the designation of "cult" is more often an aesthetic value judgment — a religious group that "seems weird" — rather than an academic one.
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Because the policy reflected in this order targets a particular religious group, even though it doesn't cover every country in which Muslims predominate, it is unconstitutional.
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As a result, they have beefed up patrols at churches and places of worship, but emphasized that there is no specific threat to any religious group.
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As so many, including Vice President Mike Pence, noted at the time, targeting members of one religious group is a clear violation of the US constitution.
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This is a religious group that has long faced persecution from the authorities, and from hostile compatriots, in Muslim-majority countries such as Pakistan and Indonesia.
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Mormons are the most Republican of any religious group in the US, with 70% identifying as Republican or leaning Republican, according to a 2014 Pew survey.
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President Donald Trump's re-election campaign seems to be getting unlikely help from The Epoch Times, a publication tied to Falun Gong, a Chinese religious group.
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Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 96% (certified fresh)Synopsis: "A look at the quick rise and influence of the controversial religious group known as The Satanic Temple."
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Kym Wilson's Presbyterian family said they were baffled by her apostasy in favor of an unorthodox religious group that preaches prohibition, polygamy and a vegetarian diet.
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Pew has found that almost four in 10 Americans married since 2010 have a spouse who is a different religious group, double the number from 1960.
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Two men have been removed from the Army National Guard after activists revealed that they are members of a religious group with ties to white supremacy.
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At least 231 of the country's 433 confirmed cases are associated with the Shincheonji religious group, according to South Korea's Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (KCDC).
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The Shakers, a separatist religious group that practices celibacy, arrived in America in 1774 and established their first religious community in upstate New York in 1776.
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A Pew report found that 68 percent did not believe the US had an obligation to take in refugees — more than any other religious group surveyed.
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The complaint noted that since 1992, the county had considered 26 applications and never before denied such a permit to either a commercial or religious group.
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Even a majority of white evangelical Protestants, who are typically conservative on LGBTQ issues, support the measures, along with every other religious group tracked by PRRI.
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It's a similar story in India, where there are 20 million Catholics, out of 28 million Christians — the country's third-largest religious group after Hindus and Muslims.
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In September, The Guardian revealed that the app's moderators actively censor content relating to Tibetan independence, the Tiananmen Square massacre and the banned religious group Falun Gong.
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But the measure doesn't define what constitutes a "religious" group, leading LGBTQ advocates to fear that practically any contractor could use a religious justification to discriminate. Rep.
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On Thursday police said they had detained four men, including the leader of a radical religious group, in connection with an arson attack related to the film.
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One of the detained men is Alexander Kalinin, leader of a religious group called Christian State that vowed to set cinemas on fire if they screen "Matilda".
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As the calendar turns west, though, Trump faces a test with another conservative religious group: Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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"No other religious group present in ISIS-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq has been subjected to the destruction that the Yazidis have suffered," the report added.
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The Pew Research Center estimates that by 2050, Muslims will become the second-largest religious group in the United States, after Christians, totaling over eight million people.
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Additionally, there has been a large decline Muslim refugees in the 2018 fiscal year, with the amount of Muslim refugees dropping more than any other religious group.
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But Mr. Trump — who drew harsh condemnation from President Obama on Tuesday — has intensified the power of fear in presidential politics by demonizing an entire religious group.
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The data show that the number of Muslim refugees has shrunk more than any other religious group in the first fiscal year fully under the Trump administration.
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The speaker was Prince Asiel Ben Israel, chief spokesman for the Original African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem, a religious group familiarly known as the Black Hebrews.
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In South Korea, the virus has spread among a religious group called the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in the city of Daegu, the country's fourth-largest city.
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The websites were part of a campaign to target the religious group by infecting an iPhone with malicious code simply by visiting a booby-trapped web page.
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South Korean authorities Thursday were seeking to question more than 1,000 members of the religious group who attended a service with one of the recently confirmed cases.
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The outbreak began in the southern city of Daegu and was centered around the Shincheonji religious group, but the virus appears to have spread now beyond practitioners.
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Community can do powerful things to us, as anyone who has ever felt trapped in a small town or dissented from a religious group knows pretty well.
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"I have no belief and do not support the idea that Muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the United States," Mr. Sessions said.
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In Japan, almost all of the 49 reported cases in Mie Prefecture were people connected to Miroku Community Kyusei Shinkyo, a religious group that promotes alternative healing.
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Muslims are the second-most targeted religious group in the United States for hate crimes, behind Jews, according to the latest statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Outside, on the lawns in front of Parliament, hundreds of yellow-clad Falun Gong members - a religious group that says it is repressed in China - held a protest.
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"I have no belief and do not support the idea that Muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the United States," the Alabama senator said.
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The religious group that quietly operates the paper believes in a coming judgment day that will send communists to hell and says Trump is helping accelerate that timeline.
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Trump ran a clearly racist campaign, calling for a ban on an entire religious group and proposing a wall to keep Mexican immigrants — whom Trump called "rapists" — out.
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Rajneesh — born in India around 2000 — came to America in 21983 already the leader of an eponymous religious group that he had founded in 21984, in Poona, India.
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That's quite a time to sign an order that, first, targets a specific religious group, and, second, shuts the door to America on those fleeing atrocities and war.
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Choi's father, Choi Tai-min, referred to as the "Korean Rasputin," headed a cult-like religious group called the Church of Eternal Life and reportedly became Park's mentor.
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Activists led by a religious group recently won a surprise vote at gunmaker Sturm Ruger, requiring it to prepare a report on the risks associated with its business.
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Compared to any other religious group in Israel, the Christian minority fares the best in terms of education and can be found in every facet of Israeli life.
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I've watched over two hours of footage now, showing every angle, close-ups, wide shots and the exchange with the religious group known as the black Hebrew Israelites.
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But even with the population boom, Christianity is far and away the predominant religious group in the US, followed by those who identify with no religion at all.
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Lee declined to speak to CNN for this and other stories, though he held a rare news conference Monday to discuss the coronavirus and defend his religious group.
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But Garcia-Siller's tweets were different, for two reasons: First, he represents the country's largest religious group, Catholics, who have about 71 million members in the United States.
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Similarly, those who have links to the Shincheonji religious group in Daegu, connected to more than 50% of cases in the country, are deemed to be at risk.
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The spike seems to have happened after a 61-year-old "super-spreader" infected 43 other members of a fringe religious group called the Shincheonji Church of Jesus.
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That arguably overstates the trend: The GSS breaks Protestants into subcategories, and if you group them together, they remain the most populous religious group, at least for now.
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Religious group Biblical Concepts Ministries protested the event and called for residents to reach out to the city and mayor's office to have it canceled, CNN affiliate WJXT reported.
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She also refused to to speak directly to whether one could ban an entire religious group from entering the country in case that question could come before the court.
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White evangelical Protestants are the most likely religious group to say that the United States has no responsibility to open its borders to refugees, according to a recent poll.
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Between the lines: Support for Trump has fallen over the past few years among white evangelicals, but they remain the only religious group with a majority that favors Trump.
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The share of Americans who acknowledge being members of a religious group is falling much faster than the proportion who, perhaps loosely, hew to one faith tradition or another.
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But it was created by a religious group, and the nationwide network of Dream Centers that it helps fund includes a "statement of faith" that promotes Scripture and salvation.
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According to a 1948 convention, it describes killing and other heinous acts, committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".
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As of 2011, over 124,000 Jews, or six in 10 Jewish adults were living in couples: that is a higher proportion than for any other ethnic or religious group.
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In that Pew survey from 2014, the fastest growing religious group was "unaffiliated," which grew from 16.1% in 2007 to 22.8%, eclipsing Catholicism in the US in the process.
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Ayahuasca first became legal for religious use in Brazil in 1987, after the country's federal drug agency concluded that "religious group members" had seen "remarkable" benefits from taking it.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Members of the Shincheonji religious group dress in identical white shirts, black pants and name tags when they gather to hear founder Lee Man-hee preach.
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About 60% of all nationwide cases are linked to the Shincheonji religious group and its branch in the southern city of Daegu, which has reported more than 2,500 cases.
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" Biggs, who is a former policy adviser to a religious group labeled as an anti-gay "hate group"by the Southern Poverty Law Center, called the provision "anti-family.
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Mohar Singh Tomar, an investigating officer with Kasganj's police force, said it was unclear who started the clashes, brushing aside suggestions that either religious group had received unfair treatment.
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How did a religious group whose foundational sacred text explicitly mandates care for the poor, the sick, and the stranger become a reliable anti-refugee, anti-immigrant voting bloc?
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And the religious group said clinics in the state to this day still believe that the abortion law requires them to have such ultrasounds performed before aborting a fetus.
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It is difficult for Mexicans to win asylum, because they are not fleeing a military dictatorship or official war zone, and usually don't come from a persecuted religious group.
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He worked for another religious group deemed a cult by mainstream churches before starting his own Shincheonji Church of Jesus, Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony in 1984.
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About a century ago, millions of Americans feared that members of a religious group was amassing an arsenal of weapons for a secret, preplanned takeover of the United States.
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That's according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center, which estimates that Muslims will outrank Jews before 2040 as the biggest religious group in the U.S. after Christians.
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The move officially took place on May 14, and garnered even more support from Trump's evangelical base, a religious group that also makes up a large contingent of Bolsonaro supporters.
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Four siblings who disappeared from Colorado in mid-September were found safe on Monday in Utah after allegedly spending nearly three months with the leader of a polygamist religious group.
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Early on Monday, hundreds of members of the religious group El Aposento Alto entered the buildings and painted over the club's emblems to set up a church, TV images showed.
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" The report includes three examples of IRA posts: one posted to the fake pro-LGBT Facebook page "LGBT United" and two posted to the faux religious group "Army of Jesus.
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Clinton's campaign has sought to draw a wedge between Mormons -- a religious group that makes up about 60% of Utah, according to some estimates -- and Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.
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The initiative was reportedly part of the lead-up to a weeklong conference hosted by Operation Save America, a religious group fighting to make abortion illegal in the United States.
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The move by top Democrats to speak more openly about their faith better aligns them with their base, black voters, who are maybe the most religious group in the country.
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Last year, Yee was convicted on charges of harassment and insulting a religious group over comments he made about former premier Lee Kuan Yew and Christians soon after Lee's death.
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Yet even as national politics has come to welcome them, Jewish citizens, who make up only about 2% of the American voting population, remain the most frequently targeted religious group.
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In 2015, Yee was convicted on charges of harassment and insulting a religious group over comments he made about former premier Lee Kuan Yew and Christians soon after Lee's death.
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Despite bigoted policy proposals that at one point even called for banning an entire religious group from the US, and the media's constant reminders that Trump is racist, Trump won.
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At Ministério Evangélico Comunidade Rhema, a religious group in Franco da Rocha, São Paulo, followers were pressed to "open up" about their fears and shame, said Daniel - a former member.
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Prior to landing roles in Fatal Attraction, Damages and The Shield, Glenn Close spent her childhood as a member of a cult-like religious group called the Moral Re-Armament.
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" The UN's Genocide Convention defines this crime as killing and certain other acts "committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
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Audio surfaced in January of Hawley making comments at a December event hosted by a religious group, where he blamed sex trafficking crimes on the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
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Then the country saw a spike in late February after a 61-year-old "superspreader" infected 43 fellow members of a fringe religious group called the Shincheonji Church of Jesus.
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Contributing to the exponential rise in cases was the city of Daegu, and specifically, the secretive religious group called Shincheonji, according to the country's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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That diversity makes it hard for any one religious group to dominate Democrats the way that Evangelicals — now often in concert with conservative Catholics — wield power in the Republican Party.
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These are some of the same people who say white Christians are the most persecuted religious group in America and that while "white privilege" is bogus, "black privilege" is real.
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The Nation of Islam was a religious group he used to be a minister for, before he broke away started his own group, called the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
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Compared with 2014, the percentage of Americans who said they personally knew a Muslim had increased to 45 from 38, the highest increase in personal contact for any religious group.
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His reference to genocide elevates the charge to the gravest of crimes against humanity: acts aimed at destroying in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
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Don't be fooled -- he promised again and again during his campaign that he would single out and persecute a specific religious group, and that's exactly what he's trying to do now.
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Threads about sensitive topics such as Tiananmen Square, Huawei, or Falun Gong, the religious group classified by the Chinese government as a cult, are quickly seized upon by pro-China accounts.
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Living Hope Ministries, based in Arlington, Texas, denies that it promotes conversion therapy, an institutionally denounced practice in which a usually religious group tries to "correct" an individual's same-sex attraction.
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When McDonald's in Taiwan recently ran a commercial featuring a young man coming out to his father, a religious group slammed the fast-food chain for spreading "improper" ideas to children.
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From the 1880s the Arya Samaj, a religious group, attempted to reinstate Hindu culture in the diaspora—which rallied, in turn, behind Gandhi's Indian nationalist movement in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Gorka went on to list several Muslim-majority countries that are not included in the "travel ban," citing them as proof the order was not targeted at one particular religious group.
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A leading conservative religious group on Tuesday urged Congress to enact immigration reform that puts an end to the Trump administration's practice of separating families who cross the southern border illegally.
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In the meantime, Muslims are due to surpass Jews as our second-largest religious group, though they'd still account for just 2.1% of the overall population, compared with Christians at 66%.
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" The term genocide, first specified in the 1948 United Nations Convention, refers to "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
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Cultural scripts relate to national ideologies and expectations, subcultural to those ideologies at the local level (or according to ethnic or religious group), and interpersonal to interactions you have with others.
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Between calls for monitoring speech on campuses and a registry for a religious group that composes a quarter of the planet, we're seeing a tight constraint on life appearing around us.
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The mayor of Seoul has sued key leaders of the Shincheonji religious group at the center of South Korea's sudden surge in the number of confirmed cases for the new coronavirus.
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Kim Shin-chang, director of international missions for the Shincheonji religious group, told CNN Sunday that members had been fully transparent and cooperative with authorities in trying to contain the outbreak.
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Then the country saw a spike in late February, after a 61-year-old "super-spreader" infected many other members of a fringe religious group called the Shincheonji Church of Jesus.
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This footnote appears to be an acknowledgment that it is not easy to come up with a comprehensive legal doctrine governing all cases where a religious group seeks a public subsidy.
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Nor is this a partisan issue; the data show a majority in every political party, every religious group and every state in the United States favors LGBT-inclusive anti-discrimination laws.
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Nor, he says, were the attacks simply on ethnic Chinese — indeed, most victims and perpetrators were of the same ethnic and religious group, whether Javanese Muslims, Balinese Hindus or Protestant Bataks.
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The UN has a detailed definition of genocide, which it describes as acts committed with an "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group".
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An obscure religious group called the Aquarian Foundation had obtained a protective order to keep its membership rolls secret during discovery in a lawsuit it had filed against the Seattle Times.
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Soldiers shot and killed dozens of unarmed protesters from a minority Muslim religious group, and the military lashed out at Unicef, briefly ordering the group out of the country before relenting.
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The research may not back up this feeling, particularly if it leads to some white evangelicals claiming that they face more discrimination than a truly marginalized religious group such as Muslims.
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He proposed banning Muslims, an entire religious group, from entering the US. He argued that a federal judge overseeing the Trump University lawsuit should be disqualified because of his Mexican heritage.
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The conservative religious group touts conversion therapy on their website, arguing that groups like the The American Psychiatric Association have "no evidence" to back up their finding that the practice is damaging.
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His first big case in Washington in 1987 was defending religious group Jews for Jesus, helping them defeat a rule that prohibited the distribution of religious literature at Los Angeles International Airport.
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Challengers to the ban say Mr. Trump's campaign speeches and tweets about Muslims were a clear indication that the ban was aimed at a religious group and not justified by security concerns.
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Gennifer's parents, 24-year-old Sarah Mitchell and Travis Mitchell, 21, are members of the Followers of Christ, a religious group that allegedly relies on prayer and anointment with oil for healing.
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The book, which will be adapted into a TV series on Hulu this April, takes place in a late-20th-century America — now called Gilead — governed by a far-right religious group.
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According to Open Doors USA, Christians are now the most persecuted religious group in the world, and the oppression of those who believe in Jesus reaches nearly every corner of the globe.
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Her answer just about summarizes the nihilism of Trump's Washington, where, when questioned whether the President would ban a religious group from Capitol Hill, his spokeswoman won't say for sure without checking.
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Each religious group will contribute one-third of the costs, and a Greek bank contributed 50,000 euros, or $57,20143, for the scaffolding, in return for having its name emblazoned across the machinery.
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In a previous statement to Business Insider, Jasper Fakkert, editor in chief of the publication, acknowledged the publication's connections to Falun Gong but said that it isn't owned by the religious group.
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There is no just way to tell a sweaty Brooklynite on a Sunday afternoon that he should be ejected onto Bedford Avenue because one religious group doesn't want him in the pool.
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The "avengers," who often act alone, target members of the racial, ethnic or religious group who they believe committed the original crime -- even if the victims had nothing to do with it.
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In the closed group, posts have been made about wiping all the Muslims off the earth, and there is frequent use of dehumanizing terms like "goat fucker" to describe the religious group.
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The mayor of Seoul has sued key leaders of the Shincheonji religious group, "for murder, injury and violation of prevention and management of infectious diseases," according to a translation from NBC News.
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South Korea's medical system is overwhelmed, while the virus appears to have peaked in ChinaThe outbreak in South Korea has largely been traced to a religious group in the city of Daegu.
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In a statement released online on Friday, the Shincheongji religious group said it "deeply regrets" the coronavirus outbreak that occurred in their Daegu branch and said it was cooperating with local authorities.
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After the city cut off parts of the CSS contract for placing children in homes — but continued to fund other parts CSS, such as group homes — the religious group sued the city.
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A few days earlier, a 61-year-old member of a controversial fringe religious group — the Shincheonji Church of Jesus — was reported to have spread the virus to dozens of other worshippers.
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The courts have not directly decided whether the law grants the president the power to bar a religious group, such as Muslims, or if that would be a violation of the Constitution.
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Central to their argument is a widespread refrain, repeated not just by Mr Orban but also by Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel: that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world.
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Any word or action that is seen to cause offense to any religious group — in fact, anything construed as insulting a religious figure — can make you an open target for religious zealots.
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Atlanta Antifascists originally published a report in April that tied the two men, identified as Brandon Trent East and Dalton Woodward, to a whites-only religious group that holds white supremacist beliefs.
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Health officials in Japan are combating the country's worst measles outbreak in years, with many infections clustered among attendees of a Valentine's Day gift fair and a religious group that avoids vaccinations.
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Consider Trump's proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the US: A few years ago, nothing like it — a ban on an entire religious group — would break into the political mainstream. Today?
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In 1993, the FBI tried the same trick — blasting recordings of dying rabbits and Tibetan prayer chants in an effort to end a standoff with the Texas-based religious group, the Branch Davidians.
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"You can't call yourself a Christian and vote for this candidate," read a December 2015 post by the non-affiliated religious group PR For The Family, in which the group condemned Lúgaro's platform.
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If you belong to a religious group that says you will live on in heaven, being reminded of death will prompt you to defend that group, so your promise of heaven is maintained.
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When discussing the candidates, Reid said that Barrett belongs to a "very, very conservative Catholic sect" to open a panel discussion that included a guest saying her religious group has "cult-like" tendencies.
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A study by the Pew Research Centre found that Jews are the most popular religious group in America, edging out Catholics and evangelical Christians and much better liked than either Muslims or atheists.
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Some students see the Trump name as synonymous with hate speech, and in at least one case, support for Mr. Trump and the speech against a religious group appeared to be closely aligned.
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For example, students can talk about whether building a wall between Mexico and the United States is good public policy, but should not make blanket, hateful statements about any ethnic or religious group.
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"Don't be fooled — he promised again and again during his campaign that he would single out and persecute a specific religious group, and that's exactly what he's trying to do now," he said.
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Park said the number of cases linked to Shincheonji could be as high as 90% of all coronavirus infections throughout the country, when counting those directly and indirectly linked to the religious group.
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The Druse, a generally quiescent religious group of about 145,20143 citizens for whom loyalty to the state is an article of faith, have denounced the legislation as a stinging insult and a betrayal.
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That makes Catholicism the smallest major religious group in China, and the only one that is shrinking — even as other faiths, especially Buddhism and Protestantism, have grown rapidly amid a nationwide religious revival.
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The F.B.I. said Mr. Bolin and his cousin were members of a neo-pagan religious group called "Folk Odinism" that worships the gods of Norse mythology and limits its membership to white heterosexuals.
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Today, as in 1917, they view Jews not as a people with rights to a national homeland but as a religious group and, throughout much of Islamic history, an inferior one at that.
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In this case, the government has stated that it plans to deport individuals who live in the United States and are members of a tiny religious group facing genocide in their home country.
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The girl was placed in His House Children's Home, a nonprofit run by a local religious group in Miami that doubles as a U.S. government facility for unaccompanied migrant children, the newspaper reported.
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For example, this year, not a single religious group profiled had a majority reporting support of religiously based discrimination by businesses against LGBTQ individuals, something Jones attributes primarily to religious groups' younger members.
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The risk of these harms is particularly acute here, where from the highest elected office in the nation has come an Executive Order steeped in animus and directed at a single religious group.
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Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)An Indonesian religious group that claims to be the world's largest Muslim organization issued an unusual declaration on Tuesday, denouncing fellow believers for the rise of violent extremism across the world.
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It was titled a "Statement on Preventing Muslim Immigration" and attached was a link to a radical, nearly unimaginable approach to U.S. immigration policy: a clear call to totally exclude one specific religious group.
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One third of all millennials now report that they are affiliated with no religious group or church whatsoever, and an almost inconceivable 106 Million people are projected to leave the Christian faith before 2050.
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These young people remain susceptible to a narrative that ISIS is the protector of a holy caliphate, whose members are persecuted at home and abroad simply for being members of a devout religious group.
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The Satanic Temple (TST) a nontheistic religious group that says it is dedicated to humanistic values, evidence-based scientific inquiry, and the separation of church and state, is currently suing Twitter for religious discrimination.
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When rapid immigration and terrorist attacks occur simultaneously — and the terrorists belong to the same ethnic or religious group as the new immigrants — the combination of fear and xenophobia can be dangerous and destructive.
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AMERICAN MESSIAHS False Prophets of a Damned Nation By Adam Morris Whenever Americans attach the label "cult" to a religious group, they reveal more about their own anxieties than about the theological eccentrics themselves.
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Though the state has one of the highest percentages of religiously unaffiliated adults, the fast growing religious group in the country, that largely blue sea is dotted with evangelical islands that are largely red.
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The psychologist Leon Festinger suggested the theory of cognitive dissonance in the 1950s when he studied a small religious group that believed a flying saucer would rescue its members from an apocalypse on Dec.
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Vallow&aposs relatives blamed the downward-spiral of her first marriage with Charles Vallow on a religious group that they referred to as a "cult," however they did not explicitly reference Preparing a People.
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Most of the people infected in South Korea appear to have been part of a religious group, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, a branch of the controversial Shincheonji Church of Jesus.
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He calculated the share of white evangelicals who supported the policies, the share of the next most conservative religious group who supported the policies, and the share of all respondents who supported the policies.
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After Orange County, Florida, allowed a religious group to pass out Bibles at public schools, the Satanic Temple demanded the right to distribute The Satanic Children's Big Book of Activities to the county's students.
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He pointed out that Exodus Cry was a religious group whose founder has previously protested about abortion and gay marriage, and on its website said its aim was to "abolish the entire sex industry".
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It seems that if your goal is saving lives and stopping extremism, it makes more sense to look at home than singling out a group of immigrants who come, disproportionately, from one religious group.
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In an increasingly fragmented society, where the largest "religious" group in America is the religiously "unaffiliated," where even religious faith is increasingly decentralized, corporations have become the closest thing many people have to religious bodies.
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The legislature indicted Park last December over accusations that she had been overly influenced by her (female) adviser, Choi Soon-sil, who heads a religious group and stands accused of soliciting bribes from large companies.
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Challengers to the latest ban said Mr. Trump's campaign speeches and Twitter posts about Muslims were a clear indication that the ban was aimed at a particular religious group and not justified by security concerns.
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The specific targeting of a religious group — on the same weekend the White House minimized the suffering of the Jewish people during the Third Reich's Final Solution — offended those who value our nation's religious liberties.
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As the largest Middle Eastern Christian minority population, Copts — an indigenous ethno-religious group whose members generally adhere to the Coptic Orthodox Church — make up an estimated 6 to 10 percent of the Egyptian population.
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Owen Wilson does a guest-turn as the charismatic leader of a religious group that takes over a small town in Oregon in the 1980s, just as the Indian mystic Rajneesh and his followers did.
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According to Elder Phillips, in an interview with the Detroit Free Press, a confrontation between the students and the religious group is what prompted him to begin his song to try to defuse the tension.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Police opened fire at Shi'ite Muslim protesters demanding the release of their leader in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Tuesday, killing one, in a second straight day of violence, the religious group said.
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In addition to forcing Doe to go to a crisis pregnancy center, a religious group that tries to stop women from getting abortions, officials also told her mother that Doe was pregnant, court documents allege.
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And Jews take a dim view of Mr. Trump, according to a 2018 Gallup poll that found that just 26 percent of Jews approved of the president's performance, the lowest of any major religious group.
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Her continued ties to a strange religious group called "Science of Identity" didn't help matters either, nor did frequent clashes with the party elite during the 2020 campaign (including filing a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton).
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"The law is unconstitutional because it's tailor-made for Orthodox yeshivas, so for a religious group," said Naftuli Moster, a yeshiva graduate who founded Young Advocates for Fair Education, the group that filed the lawsuit.
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After Mr. Trump repeatedly called for a "Muslim ban" during the presidential campaign, White House aides and lawyers said the travel ban he imposed shortly after taking office was not aimed at any religious group.
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"The data suggests this is the fastest growing religious group in America, are people who don't hold any firm religious beliefs," Teixeira, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said Wednesday on Hill.
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Interfax cited the court's spokeswoman as saying the man detained was Alexander Kalinin, leader of a radical religious group called "Christian State - Holy Rus", on suspicion of pressuring the cinemas not to screen the movie.
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Hamid Sabi, a lawyer for the China Tribunal, told U.N. representatives that the Chinese government was taking hearts, kidneys, lungs and skin from groups including Uighur Muslims and members of the Falun Gong religious group.
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Those include reports, denied by the local authorities, that homosexuals are being detained and tortured in the Russian region of Chechnya, and a Supreme Court ruling last month banning the Jehovah's Witnesses religious group as extremist.
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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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And although he's now on the move, it seems most likely that his first stop will be to avenge the deaths of Brother Ray (Ian McShane's character) and the religious group he'd previously attached himself to.
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A video of an interaction between white high school students and an indigenous activist that went viral over the weekend has sparked a wild internet debate, and thrust a little known religious group into the spotlight.
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He said so far there is no evidence Bouhlel had any association with any religious group or faction but that there was evidence he was estranged from his family and going through some kind of divorce.
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Rather it is concerned with the way that sloppy charges of "extremism" are used ever more often by authoritarian regimes to clamp down hard on almost any religious group which, for some reason, they don't like.
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The film follows Alton, a young boy with unexplained powers, and his family who fight to protect him from the FBI and a cultish religious group, both of whom seek to gain or control his abilities.
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Just before this one, the government decreed that retired party officials should not be members of religious organisations, one more example of tighter party discipline (working officials are already banned from belonging to any religious group).
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Mario M. Cuomo worked to establish "the first governmental unit in American history that was created solely to serve the needs and interests of only one religious group" — certain that the courts would overturn their largess.
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He congratulated himself on his prescience, called again for an entire religious group to be barred from entering our country and repeated the same, appallingly dangerous suggestion that President Obama is some sort of secret traitor.
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Using a Facebook post to publicly call for the genocide of an entire religious group would be unthinkable for most congresspeople—not because they're especially smart or moral, but because they seem to enjoy getting reelected.
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However, they should pursue the activity in Cuba for which their license is granted, whether it be helping a religious group or bringing humanitarian aid, and keep records of their visit for the requisite five years.
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Next was the loved it, but highly religious group—these were people (mostly women) who really enjoyed their hookups, but appeared to have strong religious beliefs that don't mesh with adopting a gay or bisexual identity.
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After Malcolm fell out of favor with Nation of Islam head, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, a chorus of voices within the religious group dubbed Malcolm a traitor and left him vulnerable to some members' murderous rage.
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Far too often, our commitment to our political party, our religious group, our sport, our college or a prominent member of our community causes us to choose to disbelieve or to turn away from the victim.
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Contradicting the Arab view of Jews as purely a religious group rather than also a national one, Mr. Abbas acknowledged that what motivated Jews to immigrate to Israel was a mixture of religious and national aspirations.
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On Mr. Trump's proposed ban on Muslim immigrants, Mr. Sessions said, "I have no belief, and I do not support the idea that Muslims, as a religious group, should be denied admission to the United States."
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The divide is smaller but still significant when compared to the next most conservative religious group: on three of the policies, there's a gap of 27 percent, but on the rest, it's 29 percent at least.
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Washington (CNN)Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh said he had been summarizing the view of the religious group that challenged an Obamacare regulation when he referred to "abortion-inducing drugs" during his confirmation hearing last week.
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Although the Episcopal church is firmly on the liberal side of America's religious spectrum, this is still new territory for a religious group which for years was the spiritual home of the nation's social and cultural elite.
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The religious group makes up only 2% of the population, and tensions are high between them and a hardline Muslim core which wants to see a strict interpretation of Islamic law take precedence in Pakistan's legal system.
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The religious group makes up 2% of the population, and tensions are high between them and a hard-line Muslim core that wants to see a strict interpretation of Islamic law take precedence in Pakistan's legal system.
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That may be because the Druze, an ethno-religious group whose 1m adherents are spread across Lebanon, Syria and Israel, are the most mysterious of all the spiritual communities that emerged from the geographical heart of monotheism.
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While there are at least 3 million Muslims in the US, when it comes to media's portrayal of the religious group narratives are often riddled in anti-Muslim rhetoric; pigeonholed as terrorists; or criticized for the hijab.
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The Church of Satan, a U.S.-based religious group which claims to have "defined Satanism", posted a picture of the event on its official Twitter account with the comment: "For clarification, this is not a satanic ritual".
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The couple — who are allegedly involved with Faith Tech Ministries, a non-denominational Christian religious group with beliefs that include a "strong message in the area of divine healing" — was released from jail after posting $75,000 bond.
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Islam is set to become the world's largest religious group by 22060 as the number of babies born to Muslim mothers is set to outpace those born to Christians within the next two decades, new research suggests.
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Pruitt also held a number of meetings with conservative policy think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation, and the Family Research Council, a religious group that argues that homosexual conduct is harmful to society, according to the records.
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Two controversial executive orders barring citizens of certain Muslim-majority countries and refugees from entering the U.S., for example, were blocked by federal judges amid concerns that the orders amounted to a ban on a religious group.
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The definition of genocide established by the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide includes killing, causing harm and suppressing birth rates of members of a ethnic, racial or religious group.
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Founded in 1984, Aum Shinrikyo formally lost its status as a registered religious group in Japan after the attack but continued its activities, even though the United States and other countries classified it as a terrorist organization.
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Phillips confirmed that he was the one who initiated their interaction after witnessing what he considered a looming scuffle between the crowd of white teens and four black members affiliated with the religious group, Black Hebrew Israelites.
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Tlaib's victory was the bright spot Tuesday night for voters who want to see more Muslims represented in government, especially during a time when the current administration seems to have the entire religious group in its crosshairs.
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Even if we suppose that most Buddhists, or members of any other religious group, really do hold beliefs that are pacifist and tolerant, we have no reason to expect that they will really be pacifist and tolerant.
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Pruitt also held a number of meetings with conservative policy think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, and the Family Research Council, a religious group that argues that homosexual conduct is harmful to society, according to the records.
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Other searches, like for Tiananmen Square or the Falun Gong religious group, were similarly scrubbed, though over the years users reported that using coded language could help turn up posts about some topics that were generally controlled.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's highest court overturned the acquittals of two officials from the country's biggest Islamic religious group and rejected a third's appeal of his conviction, in a case over videos that prosecutors say illegally glorified violence.
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The meeting resulted from a letter sent to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, by a leader of the religious group, the Fellowship Foundation, which had previously helped win the release of an Iranian-American imprisoned in Tehran.
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Ironically, by being so outspoken about the ban and other measures, Trump and his aides undermined their ability to impose travel restrictions without running afoul of the U.S. Constitution's Establishment Clause, which prohibits discrimination against a religious group.
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Videos that later surfaced showed Black Hebrew Israelites, a religious group known for trollishly evangelizing in East Coast cities, jeering at the Native Americans as well as the Catholic boys, with remarks that were both racist and homophobic.
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On April 19th, 50 legal scholars filed an amicus brief with the Fourth Circuit arguing that Mr Trump's executive order is precluded by "the long-settled prohibition on governmental acts based on animus toward a particular religious group".
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Weeks after The Satanic Temple announced their plans to sue Netflix's The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for using a statue in a recent episode, the lawsuit between the religious group, Netflix and Warner Bros Entertainment has been resolved.
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An 2323-month police investigation in North Carolina has led to charges against 9103 members of what authorities called an "alternative religious group" who allegedly forced children to work at four fish markets for little or no pay.
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Varys is skeptical of aligning with a religious group until Rachel Weisz narrates his entire childhood trauma back to him, and implies that he himself might have heard the Lord of Light speak to him as a boy.
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Though white Christians remain the largest religious group in America, they are now just one strand in a complex tapestry that includes a proliferation of faiths and an increasing number of Americans who align with no organized religion.
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Turkish police fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday to disperse protesters outside the country's biggest newspaper after authorities seized control of it in a crackdown on a religious group whose leader the government accuses of treason.
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QUETTA — A far-right religious group that declares members of Islam's Shia sect to be heretics, and has been banned by Pakistan as a "terrorist" organization, is running 150 candidates for National Assembly in Pakistan's July 25 election.
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Abortion rights activists attacked him for referring to certain forms of contraception as "abortion-inducing drugs" — but when he uttered those words, he was simply describing the litigation position of a religious group, not stating his own views.
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"We have secured a list of about 9,300 members of the relevant religious group, and we are preemptively enforcing self-isolation and facility isolation," said Kim Gang-lip, South Korea's vice minister of health, at a press briefing.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court in the Russian Far East on Tuesday handed a six-year suspended jail sentence to a Jehovah's Witness, Grigoriy Bubnov, after finding him guilty of extremist activity, a spokesman for the religious group said.
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SAO PAULO, Dec 26 (Reuters) - A far-right religious group in Brazil has claimed responsibility for a Christmas Eve fire-bombing attack on the offices of a comedy troupe that produced a Netflix special depicting Jesus as gay.
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Mr. Muhammad is the grandson of Elijah Muhammad, a founder of the Nation of Islam, the controversial religious group that was often in the news then because of its two highest-profile adherents, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali.
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More than one-quarter of voters in the midterm election were white evangelicals, who, together with Jews, are the most pro-Israel religious group in the country, and who since the 53s have largely supported the Republican Party.
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This week marks the 251th anniversary of one of the strangest and most tragic incidents in American religious history: the bloody ending of the siege between FBI agents and members of the Branch Davidian religious group in Waco, Texas.
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About 100 members of a little-known religious group, Tehreek Labaik Ya Rasool Allah, arrived at the local press club in the port city of Karachi and started hurling stones at people gathered there to support the missing activists.
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In the United States, whose population is more devout than that of most rich democracies, the number of people who identify with no religious group has tripled in the last 25 years, reaching about a quarter of the population.
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White evangelicals remain the religious group closest to majority support for a wider prohibition on bringing refugees to the United States: Forty-four percent say they would support such a ban, according to the Public Religion Research Institute poll.
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This defines the ultimate crime as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group" whether through outright killing of "inflicting…conditions of life" designed to bring about their destruction.
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The novel is set in a totalitarian society in near future New England where a radical religious group has seized power, women are forbidden to read, homosexuality is punishable by death, and environmental degradation has led to widespread infertility.
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But the new normal in American health care looks to be a victory for the religious right, particularly evangelicals, the only religious group in which a majority opposed the mandate, according to a 2012 Public Religion Research Institute poll.
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There's been a rapid spike in coronavirus disease, or Covid-19, cases in South Korea, and about half of the 231 confirmed cases are linked to a secretive religious group often viewed with suspicion by more traditional religious sects.
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It is also the first case the Supreme Court will hear where a religious group claims the right to violate a ban on discrimination since Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation gave reliably conservative Republicans a majority on the Supreme Court.
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When my father lay dying, he struggled to try to explain to me why in the '60s things got so bad in the extreme religious group into which I had been born and he had been born before me.
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On the higher education front, the department plans to propose that as a condition of funding, a public institution of higher education cannot deny a religious group the same benefits, privileges and rights that other secular student groups have.
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After an election year that stirred up animosity across racial and religious lines, a new survey has found that Americans are actually feeling warmer toward people in nearly every religious group — including Muslims — than they did three years ago.
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Politicians, whoever they may be — at a local level or on the national stage — have a responsibility and an obligation to respond and to speak out against code words, bigotry and stereotyping of any racial, ethnic or religious group.
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Another site that trafficked heavily in pro-Trump news was run by Knights Templar International, a militant religious group that Mr. Dowson is involved in, which has recently supported anti-immigrant militias patrolling border areas in Bulgaria and Hungary.
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He also responded with disarming bluntness to some queries, saying he does not "support the idea that Muslims as a religious group should be denied admission to the United States," and that the law "absolutely" does not allow waterboarding.
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We're talking about anti-LGBTQ organizations leveraging a viewpoint that isn't the majority opinion in any religious group in the country to stop more than 11 million LGBTQ Americans from gaining protections that half of our countrymen assume we already have.
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Twenty-five years later, Clive Doyle has not forgotten the heat of the fire that consumed the Mount Carmel compound outside Waco Texas, on April 19, 1993 — leaving behind the bodies of 75 members of the Branch Davidian religious group.
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Ironically, on Monday -- the very day the Trump administration is hosting a summit focused on the rise of anti-Semitism -- the President has clearly failed to recognize that bias against one racial or religious group can lead to bias against others.
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Trump lawyer says President isn't under investigation, despite tweets His first big case in Washington in 1987 was defending religious group Jews for Jesus, helping them defeat a rule that prohibited the distribution of religious literature at Los Angeles International Airport.
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The 30-year-old pastor of a small religious group that former members insist is a cult has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and assault, thus avoiding murder charges in a 2015 attack on two of her church members, PEOPLE confirms.
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There we find two complementary rights of religious freedom: the right to believe as we choose, without fear or discrimination, with the security that the government will not show favor toward a particular religious group or toward religion in general.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Saturday to disperse protesters outside the country's biggest newspaper after authorities seized control of it in a crackdown on a religious group whose leader the government accuses of treason.
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"As of 2 November, over 183,000 people are displaced in the disputed areas, including 79,000 from Kirkuk city," the Office of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq said in a statement, giving no breakdown by ethnic or religious group.
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About three quarters of all the cases have been identified in the city of Daegu and 63% of all cases in the country are directly related to Shinchonji religious group, the South Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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To the contrary, I am consulting with a religious group and advocating the practice's total abolition and the substitution of a benign, sterilized, symbolic pinprick in the hood covering the clitoris, which is much like the foreskin of the penis.
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Brandon Boudreaux, who said his ex-wife Melani is Vallow&aposs niece, has publicly stated that he believed the womens&apos involvement in the religious group was connected to both the missing children and an attempt on his life in October.
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Not everyone may literally worship guns, but — for the 77 percent of white evangelicals who feel safer with a gun around, a percentage unmatched by any other religious group — it's worth investigating how close gun ownership and religious identity really are.
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These were the weeks of massive purges, when tens of thousands of civil servants who the government claimed had ties to Gulenists — members of the secretive religious group allegedly behind the coup — were taken from their homes and into custody.
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The study isn't making an apples-to-apples comparison; the more directly relevant statistic would look at whether or not Muslim Americans kill more US citizens here than any other specific political or religious group (other research has looked at that question).
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Americans who say religion is not important in their lives and who do not belong to a religious group, according to the Pew Research Center, have risen in numbers from an estimated 21 million in 2008 to more than 36 million now.
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Choi Soon-sil has been portrayed in Korean media as having inherited her father's influence over Park, while South Korean media have characterized Choi Tae-min's religious group as a cult and alleged that Park held a shamanistic ritual at the presidential compound.
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"When executive action is challenged as targeting religion, the critical question is intent: If the government can be shown to have intentionally targeted a religious group, its actions violate the Free Exercise Clause," David Cole wrote in a post on the ACLU website.
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For a religious group that was driven to Utah during the 19th century in the face of persecution, Mr. Trump's calls for religious tests and a ban on Muslim migration echo a painful past, leaving some wondering if they will be next.
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Choi Soon-sil has been portrayed in Korean media as having inherited her father's influence over Park, while local media have also characterized Choi Tae-min's religious group as a cult and alleged that Park held a shamanistic ritual at the presidential compound.
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Shahgul Razaee, a member of the Afghan Parliament, said that the recent attacks in Kabul targeting Shiites "are a part of a systematic killing of a specific ethnic and religious group," and that the government had proved unable to do anything about it.
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It has been linked to the Shincheonji religious group, one of a large number of new religious movements in South Korea, which has come under intense scrutiny since the outbreak, amid allegations leaders have not done enough to share information with the authorities.
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In another controversy, in May 2016, Mr. Rafsanjani was drawn into a ferocious debate over a meeting between his activist daughter, Faezeh, and Fariba Kamalabadi, a leader of the Baha'is, a minority religious group regarded by the clerical hierarchy as impure pagans.
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At a September appearance in front of the United Nations Human Rights Council, China Tribunal lawyer Hamid Sabi said that the Chinese government was taking hearts, kidneys, lungs, and skin from groups including Uighur Muslims and members of the Falun Gong religious group.
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The conclusions were limited, since the study was observational and involved members of a religious group who are unusually healthy, do not smoke, tend to abstain from alcohol and eat less meat than the general population (half in the study were vegetarian).
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While most Americans (65 percent) think religion should be kept out of politics (54 percent of Republicans and 76 percent of Democrats), the only major religious group to disagree was white evangelicals, 54 percent of whom think government policies should actively support religion.
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Pew says that number will climb past 8 million by 2050, when Muslims will become the second-largest religious group in the United States, a surge driven by immigration, large families and the relative youth of American Muslims (their median age in 2010 was 23).
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Jonathan Foster, 35, and his 34-year-old wife, Grace Anne Foster, belong to a religious group that does not believe in medical intervention using doctors and pharmaceutical drugs, according to articles in the Reading Eagle, the Lebanon Daily News and Philadelphia TV station WPVI.
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When secular liberals ignore the rise of intolerance fomented by one religious group against another, they risk damaging the values they claim to hold It may come as a surprise to you to learn that pluralism is actually at the heart of the Islamic tradition.
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Over time, disputes over policies that are plainly an attempt to bar members of a specific religious group from entering the United States — something Trump's own vice president denounced as unconstitutional less than a year and a half ago — will become standard partisan disputes.
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Pew says that number will climb past 8 million by 2050, when Muslims will become the second-largest religious group in the United States, a surge driven by immigration, large families and the relative youth of American Muslims (their median age in 93 was 23).
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As the members of Aum Shinrikyo made preparations for a large-scale subway attack using sarin gas it had manufactured at a massive facility at the base of Mt. Fuji, Japanese police were building a case against the religious group and preparing for a raid.
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Islamic State is attempting to destroy the Yazidi population in Syria and Iraq through killings, sexual slavery, and other crimes, acts that United Nations investigators say amount to the crime of genocide being committed by the militants against the ethno-religious group of 400,000 people.
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Given the circumstances (the collective punishment of an entire religious group), that "reciprocal" showed extraordinary equanimity — not that anyone who had seen the film for which Farhadi was nominated, a painstaking psychological inquest into the rival claims of reciprocally humiliated parties, would have been surprised.
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From Alex Hern's very good story in The Guardian: TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network, instructs its moderators to censor videos that mention Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or the banned religious group Falun Gong, according to leaked documents detailing the site's moderation guidelines.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On July 22004th, six members of the religious group Aum Shinrikyo were executed by hanging for their involvement in a variety of crimes, including the 893 Tokyo subway gas attack that killed thirteen people and injured thousands more.
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" Nevertheless, Gorka told Breitbart News Daily radio, "There is not one instance on the campaign trail or after the President took office in which the travel suspension was mentioned without reference to national security -- it was never mentioned, 'we're doing this because of a certain religious group.
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The China Tribunal, a group that's investigating the organ harvesting, said at a tense meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council that the Chinese government was taking hearts, kidneys, lungs, and skin from groups including Uighur Muslims and members of the Falun Gong religious group.
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The league said the money from the fine would go to groups that focus on race- and gender-based issues, including Beauty for Ashes Ministry, a religious group that supports victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault; the Black Women's Blueprint; and the Women of Color Network.
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PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Dozens of people were found on Wednesday in squalid conditions, chained and in cages in a Trinidad and Tobago rehabilitation center run by a religious group for ex-prisoners and drug users, where some were tortured and held for years, police said.
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Among nearly every religious group, the Democratic candidate received equal or higher levels of support compared with the 220006 Democratic nominee, John KerryJohn Forbes KerryA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Trump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button MORE.
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The clashes, which led to more defiant counterdemonstrations, were an illustration of how seriously tensions have risen between the Western-backed secular FSA and the hardline religious group Jabhat al-Nusra — tensions which could evolve into broader hostilities, representatives from both Nusra and the FSA told VICE News.
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When a single religious group is looking after new arrivals, it tends to favour its own adherents, ghetto-ise them and discourage them from making contacts in the wider community: such, at least, had been the finding of a raft of previous studies which the new article mentions.
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The rest of the political establishment is more or less comfortable weighing that question, too: rival politicians, journalists and the fact-checkers employed by news outlets are all accustomed to assessing claims that a given policy will have an outsize impact on a particular race, ethnicity or religious group.
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Local news radio station KJZZ reported this week that two inmates at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville wrote to the religious group, American Friends Service Committee, alleging that they were forced to find substitutes for toilet paper for days after prison officials said the facility ran out.
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Before the fighting started last week, the United States had worked with the Iraqis to assemble a military force that included the Iraqi Army, Kurdish forces and Sunni tribal fighters — but not the Shiite militias, which have a record of abuses against Sunnis, the largest religious group in Mosul.
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The U.N. convention, passed in the wake of the Nazi holocaust, requires countries to act to prevent and punish genocide, which it defines as any of a number of acts committed with the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part" a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.
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Google has removed a gay conversion therapy app from a religious group called Living Hope Ministries from the Play Store after vocal protests from a wide range of groups, including thousands of internet users, New York State Senator Brad Hoylman, and most recently, the Human Rights Campaign, as reported by Axios.
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The Rohingyas' suffering clearly meets the criteria for "genocide", as set out in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide passed by the UN on December 9th 1948—ie, acts intended "to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".
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Keith Ellison faces renewed scrutiny over past ties to Nation of Islam, defense of anti-Semitic figures Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, renounced his association with the religious group in 2006 during his congressional run after local Republican bloggers began publishing information about his connection to the organization.
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The authorities carried out raids in Danilovgrad, a town in central Montenegro, and in Podgorica, the capital, on Friday, after getting a report that "a certain number of foreign citizens, linked to a certain foreign closed religious group" were in the country illegally, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
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Though cast as a bill on secularism, much of the debate stuck on voiles — the word used in Quebec for both hijabs and niqabs, because Muslims are the largest non-Christian religious group in the province, though only around 3 percent of the population according to the most recent census.
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Eating vegan has long been a practice, especially for followers of religious and spiritual movements like Rastafarianism and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, a religious group with black nationalist underpinnings that rose up in the 1960s and still runs a chain of vegan restaurants in cities like Atlanta; Tallahassee, Fla.
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Burge's analysis, published Thursday, finds that on issues ranging from border security to immigration detention, white evangelicals — a group that includes dozens of individual denominations, from the Southern Baptist Convention to the Pentecostal movement — are substantially more conservative than the average American and even the next most conservative religious group.
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US politicians' concern over TikTok began with an investigation the Guardian published on September 25, which revealed leaked documents that showed TikTok instructing its moderators to censor videos that mentioned topics sensitive to the Communist Party of China: Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, and the religious group Falun Gong, for instance.
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The audio of Yahweh Ben Yahweh depicts the sinister edge that eventually overtook the religious group, which began by offering Biblical inspiration to young African Americans during a period of racial tension and won endorsements from local leaders for tangible steps to clean up drug-riddled and dilapidated properties around South Florida.
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Finally, some have argued that the Little Sisters aren't a religious group — that our willingness to care for the elderly poor regardless of their religious beliefs and hire people to help provide that care who haven't taken the same vows we have means we're a social service organization, not a religious one.
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This week, we traveled into an internet empire linked to a mysterious religious group; reported on the "abuse system" of a Louisiana school famous for sending underprivileged black students to elite colleges; and spoke with social media stars doing what the beauty industry often does not: paying attention to women with dark skin.
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"Wild Wild Country," which was nominated today for five Emmy Awards, including outstanding documentary or nonfiction series, revisits the Rajneeshees, the religious group prominent in the early and mid-1980s who were perhaps best known for sexual indulgence, criminal plots and public feuds with local communities near their desert commune in Oregon.
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In another development with substantial political consequences, the national religious landscape is changing in a direction favorable to the left: Americans with no religious affiliation — a disproportionately Democratic constituency — have now become the largest religious group, edging past evangelical Americans and Catholics by the slimmest of margins, as the accompanying graphic shows.
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But in the "ground game" phase of Iowa caucus season, when campaigns fight tooth and nail for every last vote, it's easy to imagine a campaign manager on the verge of defeat in one precinct or another, pausing for a split-second to question the wisdom of reducing an entire religious group to collateral damage.
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In Ben-Gurion's usage, that Hebrew term took in the republican concepts of civic consciousness—"the individual's responsibility to his/her fellow citizens, to the public domain and the common weal"—and civic affinity, a broad recognition of communal imperatives that "do not derive from a primordial attachment" to an ethnic or religious group.
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A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the company had sent out the email, and clarified that abusing people on the basis of caste would be a type of intra-religious distinction and would fall under the company's hateful conduct policies that prohibit the targeting of people based on their membership of a religious group.
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Those included a manufactured conservative backlash to Sarah Jeong, a New York Times hire who had made jokes about white people on Twitter: Last month, a conservative commentator took some of those same tweets, substituted a religious group for the racial category in order to, she argued, underscore the original tweets' repugnance — and was promptly suspended.
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And the Supreme Court of the United States, as we know it in 19903, is not going to accept the claim that a flat ban on entry into the United States by any member of a religious group with a billion members of every imaginable race, nationality, and political orientation is a law motivated by a valid purpose.
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U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga, who sits on the Eastern District Court of Virginia in Alexandria, rebuffed Muslim activists' request to temporarily bar the executive order on the grounds that the ban, which blocks travel to the United States for travelers from six predominately Muslim countries, acts as a discriminatory ban on a particular religious group.
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Testimony from Yazidis — an esoteric religious group that blends ancient Persian and pre-Islamic beliefs — and other ethnic minorities in the area included "accounts of systematic and widespread killings, sexual violence and sexual slavery, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, forced conversions and forced displacement, among other abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law," the report said.
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Bizarrely enough, an NBC investigation linked the Epoch Times' administration to a Chinese religious group, Falun Gong, that "believes in an upcoming judgment day that will send communists to hell, and says that Trump is helping accelerate that timeline" (the publication's editor-in-chief Jasper Fakker told Gizmodo via email that the Epoch Times does not share this belief).
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"Atheists and agnostics, or people with no religion in particular, have higher education levels than the religiously affiliated do in the U.S." Worldwide, Jews were the most highly educated major religious group, with an average of 22010 years of schooling, while Hindus and Muslims were the least educated, with an average of 5.6 years each, according to the report.
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Without getting too far into spoiler territory, I'll say that this includes: hiding out in an abandoned cottage with virtually no supplies, being harassed by a racist shop owner, working at an illegal pot farm, dealing with a cult-like religious group, learning about their estranged mother, and being confronted with a literal wall at the US / Mexico border.
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We'd often be the most visibly diverse table at the restaurant, a snapshot of the second most racially and ethnically mixed religious group in America: Arab-Americans, Afghan-Americans, Iranian-Americans and African-Americans — some of us born here, some brought here as refugees, some who came here to study and others whose great-great-grandparents were brought here on slave ships.
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Though Pence — who describes himself as "a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order" — did not organize the rally, he did share the stage with a man who leads a congregation that follows Messianic Judaism, a religious group that believes in the teachings of the New Testament, in particular, recognizes Jesus as the promised Messiah, which is the defining difference between Jews and Christians.
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Imagine all the circumstances of this were reversed: If the same act had been committed by a person from another country, who was a member of a racial/religious group that was in the minority in America, and this person had targeted white Americans and shouted "Death to your country" instead of "Go back to your country" this would be on the front page as an act of likely terrorism.
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Let's get one thing out of the way: Muslims absolutely face more discrimination than Christians and just about any other religious group in the US. There are all sorts of anecdotes to this effect, from people calling Muslims "terrorists" in the street for seemingly no reason to President Donald Trump proposing a ban on all Muslims entering the US. But the empirical evidence backs this up as well.
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"Regardless of what Donald Trump may think, barring members of a particular religious group from entering the country is unconstitutional and would never be supported by Congress or the courts," House Minority Whip Steny HoyerSteny Hamilton HoyerLiberal Democrat eyes aid cuts to Israel after Omar, Tlaib denied entry Lawmakers blast Trump as Israel bars door to Tlaib and Omar Israel denies Omar and Tlaib entry after Trump tweet MORE (D-Md.) said in a statement. Rep.
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