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Seeking community, more Ohio college students commit to Catholic faith
By: Shay Frank | WYSO
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DAYTON, Ohio (WYSO) — At a recent confirmation service at the University of Dayton chapel, the pews overflowed with parishioners and new visitors. They gathered to witness five students receive… Read More
JD Vance has a new book about his religious faith, ‘Communion,’ coming out later this spring
By: Hillel Italie | AP
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Vice President JD Vance has a new book coming out that will explore his religious faith and his conversion to Catholicism as an adult. “Communion: Finding… Read More
An interfaith iftar brings Ohioans of different faiths together for Ramadan
By: Shay Frank | WYSO
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MIAMISBURG, Ohio (WYSO) — For 18 years, Ohioans of different faiths have been invited to break fast and learn more about Ramadan at a community iftar meal. This year’s Interfaith… Read More
A GOP-backed bill would make it a felony to disturb a religious service in Ohio
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Two GOP state lawmakers want Ohio to enact harsher penalties for protesters who disturb religious service. Introduced last Thursday by Reps. Tex Fischer (R-Boardman)… Read More
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Athens City Council members are divided over a proposal to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at meetings
By: Charlie Ihlenfeld
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) – Athens City Council members are split on adding the Pledge of Allegiance to open council meetings. During Monday’s meeting, Councilmember Alan Swank proposed adding three changes… Read More
The Ohio House’s GOP approved the Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act, allowing the teaching of religion’s positive role in U.S. history
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A Republican-backed bill that would permit teachers at public K-12 schools and educators at state universities to discuss the historical, positive impact of religion… Read More
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The Ten Commandments could be hung in Ohio classrooms under a Republican bill
By: Sarah Donaldson | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — A bill moving through the Ohio General Assembly would force history and social studies teachers statewide from grades four through 12 to hang several historic… Read More
A bipartisan bill would offer a tithing tax credit to Ohioans who give to churches
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohioans who regularly give money to churches would be able to deduct that money from their taxable income under a bill that’s still being… Read More
As church attendance drops, holy sites in Ohio find new roles
By: Ellie Owen | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WOSU) — The sun is still shining through stained glass windows of the sanctuary at St. Ladislas Church in Columbus. But the pews and the pulpit are gone. With… Read More
Ohio religious leaders react to IRS relaxing its stance on churches endorsing political candidates
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Ohio churches are having mixed reactions to news that the Internal Revenue Service is indicating it will relax enforcement of the 1954 Johnson Amendment,… Read More
An Ohio archive will take Catholic sisters’ faith out of the footnotes
By: Kendall Crawford I Statehouse News Bureau
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — A groundbreaking Catholic archive center will soon make its home in Ohio. The Women Religious Archives Collaborative (WRAC) Heritage Center in Cleveland will document the… Read More
With a massive ark and museum, Ken Ham spreads creationism a century after the Scopes trial. He’s not alone
By: Peter Smith | AP
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. (AP) — As the colossal replica of the biblical Noah’s Ark rises incongruously from the countryside of northern Kentucky, Ken Ham gives the presentation he’s often repeated. The… Read More
Gov. Mike DeWine remembers Pope Francis as a compassionate world leader
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Many national and state leaders are issuing statements about the death of Pope Francis. That includes Gov. Mike DeWine, a devout Catholic, and Vice… Read More
Lifewise could sue Ohio schools for banning goodies offered to kids on religious release time
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — Public school districts throughout Ohio have put in place policies to comply with a law to allow religious groups to take kids off campus during the… Read More
West Virginia’s Senate OKs a bill allowing for religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions
By: Leah Willingham | AP
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia senators voted to dismantle one of the nation’s strictest school vaccination policies Friday by greenlighting an exemption for families who say mandated inoculations conflict… Read More
‘Going with God,’ conservative Amish have sued Ohio over its buggy lights law
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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HARDIN COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — In the 1960s, the Swartzentrubers — one of the most conservative subgroups of Old Order Amish — worked out a deal with the… Read More
An Ohio Senate committee adds a religious education bill to the “Parents’ Bill of Rights”
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — The so-called “Parents’ Bill of Rights” could move forward with a big and unexpected change. House Bill 8, which opponents say is Ohio’s equivalent… Read More
Meet the Ohio pastor turning guns into garden tools
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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TOLEDO, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Joel Shenk believes his hammer is an instrument of peace. On an October day, he repeatedly smashed it down into an anvil at Toledo… Read More
JD Vance has said Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers
By: Peter Smith | Michelle R. Smith | AP
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — By his own account, Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s 2019 conversion to Catholicism provided a spiritual fulfillment he couldn’t find in his Yale education or career success…. Read More
A West Virginia school system mandates religious training following a revival assembly lawsuit
By: Leah Willingham | AP
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia school district has passed a policy mandating annual religious freedom training as part of a lawsuit settlement after an evangelical preacher held a… Read More
A judge rules West Virginia can’t require an incarcerated atheist to participate in religious programming
By: Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that the state corrections agency can’t force an incarcerated atheist and secular humanist to participate in religiously-affiliated programming… Read More
The faithful see both crisis and opportunity as churches close across the country
By: Scott Neuman I NPR
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STRUTHERS, Ohio (NPR) — When Pastor Douglas Theobald steps to the pulpit at Struthers United Methodist Church this Sunday, it will likely be the last religious service in its 112-year… Read More
The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is shrinking
By: Jason DeRose | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is on the decline. However, for people who do still attend religious services, they say they’re optimistic about… Read More
More than half of Republicans support Christian nationalism, according to a new survey
By: Ashley Lopez | NPR
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WASHINGTON (NPR) — Long seen as a fringe viewpoint, Christian nationalism now has a foothold in American politics, particularly in the Republican Party — according to a new survey from… Read More
As attendance dips, churches change to stay relevant for a new wave of worshippers
By: John Burnett | NPR
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (NPR) — It’s Sunday morning and a small group sits around a fire pit in a community garden under the limbs of an expansive box elder tree. Church… Read More