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Through an Internet fundraising campaign, more than $850,000 had been raised by Monday for the mosque since the fire, which is still under investigation.
Trump's executive order has put Catholic leaders on edge.
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Pope Francis will celebrate the first papal Mass in her shrine outside Santiago on Tuesday.
"We have concerns,” the Southern Baptist leader writes.
Timothy and Esten Ciboro were both sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
The LDS Church has had a long commitment to religious freedom.
I have become a member of a group described as a potential threat.
President Trump makes good on campaign promise to institute a ban on people from Muslim-majority countries entering the United States.
Some saw a generational divide during the election.
These lives matter to God.
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U.S. combat veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan say they are outraged at the temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries that has blocked visas for Iraqi interpreters who risked their lives to help American troops on the battlefield.
Southwest Baptist University dismissed two students over their alleged involvement in an assault at a group home for children.
Washington state’s attorney general declared Monday that he was suing President Donald Trump over his temporary ban on immigration from seven countries with majority-Muslim populations, making it the first state to announce a legal action against the Trump administration over one of its policies.
The agent for two Americans who play professional basketball in Iran hopes they will be able to return to the country to finish their season.
The Latest on President Donald Trump, his travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries and other immigration actions (all times local):
CEOs of some of the world’s biggest companies are fighting back against President Donald Trump’s temporary immigration ban, calling it un-American and bad for business.
U.S. combat veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan say they are outraged at the temporary ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and the suspension of the U.S. refugee program that has blocked visas for interpreters who risked their lives to help American troops on the battlefield.
Don’t talk about airport protests in Trump Country. In the places that propelled Donald Trump to the White House, the president’s fans couldn’t be much happier with his executive order temporarily banning refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries.
A Muslim civil rights group has joined the legal battle to overturn President Donald Trump’s travel ban directed at seven Muslim-majority nations.
Washington state’s attorney general declared Monday that he was suing President Donald Trump over his temporary ban on immigration from seven countries with majority-Muslim populations, making it the first state to announce a legal action against the Trump administration over one of its policies.
The Latest on a South Carolina resident trying to return from Iran (all times local):
The agent for two Americans who play professional basketball in Iran hopes they will be able to return to the country to finish their season.
An online fund established to raise money to rebuild a South Texas mosque destroyed by fire over the weekend has far exceeded its $850,000 goal.
Rabbi Joel Mosbacher had just finished the morning’s Shabbat service when he got an urgent message: Rabbis were needed at New York’s Kennedy Airport. People were being detained under President Donald Trump’s sharp travel restrictions on refugees. Would he come pray?
A woman traveling to Indiana to care for her cancer-stricken mother, a family physician who has lived in the U.S. for two decades, and a Minneapolis woman about to become a U.S. citizen were among those caught in the net cast by President Donald Trump when he banned travelers from entering the country from Muslim-majority nations.
