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Former and current Jehovah Witnesses question a policy they say discourages leaders from reporting abuse.
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Proposed bill would grant Christian women the right to ask for divorce if their husbands commit adultery.
Manpreet Singh in New Delhi
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For my father-in-law, his place in the order of Creation was no diminishment, but the beginning of wisdom.
Walter Wangerin Jr
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In a consumer society, there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addictions and the prisoners of envy
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Are mentally challenged adults whose intellectual age is probably that of a 1-year-old sheltered under God's salvation?
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The best-selling novelist describes the tormented childhood that shaped his imagination.
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