Taxpayers can't sue over faith-based initiatives
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A White House program to aid religious groups in providing social services survives a court test.
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THE GAZETTE. The Episcopal Church was scolded but not punished in a document released Monday by the churchâs parent organization.
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Two U.S. Supreme Court members  separately rejected on Wednesday an emergency request from a  California atheist who sought to stop the recital of prayers at  President Bush's inauguration.
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A woman who claims she was abused in a Catholic children's home loses a bid to sue the religious order which ran it.
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Some parents and parishioners have accused the Roman Catholic diocese in Orange County of violating church doctrine by allowing a gay couple to enroll their children in a church school.
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The archbishop of Canterbury on Thursday called for a limited application of Islamic law in Britain. Muslims praised the proposal but the government rejected it
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A Christian ministry that helps its members pay one anotherâs medical bills won an important round in its legal battle with insurance regulators.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the government's decision to freeze the assets of a Missouri-based Islamic charity with alleged links to a foreign group that supports terrorism.
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A judge has blocked the Bush administration from providing future "faith-based" grants to an Arizona mentoring group that injected religion into its publicly funded programs.
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The Roman Catholic archbishop of St.  Louis has issued an order denying the sacraments to leaders of  a rebellious parish in a dispute over control of the parish and  its millions of dollars in assets.
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The Supreme Court ruled Monday that ordinary taxpayers cannot challenge a White House initiative that helps religious charities get a share of federal money.
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The religious head of the Anglican church sparked an angry row Friday after saying the adoption of some parts of sharia law alongside Britain's legal system "seems unavoidable".
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A proposed law would limit foreign funding of churches and AIDS programs.
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Iowa pastors who support Republican Mike Huckabee for president have received letters warning them that getting involved in politics could endanger the tax-exempt status of their churches.
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A Christian law group is fighting for a ban on gay members
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Banks refuse cheques issued by Sri Jayendra Saraswathi's religious establishment.
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President Bush's campaign criticized a new Democratic effort to get out the religious vote for John Kerry on Friday, saying it could endanger churches' tax-exempt status by involving them in partisan political activity.