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Lauren Markoe covered government and features as a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years before joining the Religion News Service staff as a national correspondent in 2011. She previously was Washington correspondent for The State (Columbia, S.C.)
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Obama pleads for tolerance in first visit to US mosque

In times of rising Islamophobia, President Obama made a plea for religious tolerance during his first presidential visit to an American mosque.
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Pew study: More Americans reject religion, but believers firm in faith

Americans as a whole are growing less religious, but those who still consider themselves to belong to a religion are, on average, just as committed to their faiths as they were in the past — in certain respects even more so.
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Many Conservative rabbis open to officiating at intermarriage

A controversial new survey of Conservative rabbis shows that nearly 4 in 10 (38 percent) would officiate at the marriage of a Jew and non-Jew if the Conservative movement lifted its prohibition on these unions.
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Muslims prepare for weekend of anti-Islam protests

Muslim leaders and anti-bigotry activists are girding for a weekend of protests — some billed as “open-carry events” — by groups known for their anti-Muslim views.
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Ted Cruz enlists evangelicals with campaign against Planned Parenthood

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is waging a campaign to defund Planned Parenthood, an effort involving pastors, sermons and fasting that the Texas senator insists isn’t political.
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5 faith facts about Scott Walker: Son of a preacher man

Scott Walker, best known for picking a fight with Wisconsin’s unions that led to protesters’ occupation of the state Capitol, credits prayer and his church for delivering him and his family through trying times.
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Righteous or repugnant? Religious responses to the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision

Some hailed the Supreme Court’s decision as righteous and holy. Others deplored it as an affront to God.
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