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An Arkansas student has been invited back to his school’s social time to share his faith after being muted during a Zoom call. 11th-grader Zion Ramos attends Arkansas Connections Academy (ARCA), an online public school, which includes a thirty-minute Zoom “social session” where students are allowed to discuss whatever topics they would like with each…

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A federal court has sided with an Idaho church after a public charter school canceled the church’s lease. Truth Family Bible Church had rented the gymnasium at Sage International’s Middleton, ID campus for Sunday services until last year. Sage then canceled the lease after it began applying for $15 million in bonds through the Idaho Housing…

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After controversy, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has declined a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Chicago. The award was to be presented at the Diocese’s Keep Hope Alive event in November, with the decision coming from Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich. Cupich wanted to honor Durbin for his support of vulnerable immigrants along…

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Robert Morris, the influential founder of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, has been sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to sexually abusing a girl beginning when she was just 12 years old in the 1980s. The sentence is part of a 10-year suspended sentence, meaning Morris will serve jail time followed by…

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