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By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Americans are feeling more positive toward various religious groups than they did less than three years ago.While Americans still feel less positive about Muslims and atheists when compared with people of other religions, those participating in a Pew Research Center survey in January viewed people in those two religious groups more positively than in June 2014.The survey overall, part of Pew's American Trends Panel series of studies, found that warmer feelings toward various religions were expressed by people in all of the participating major religious groups. The same holds true when the sample of 4,248 respondents is divided into groups such as Democrats and Republicans, men and women, and younger and older adults.The study used a "feeling thermometer" that asked 93 percent of the respondents -- 3,939 -- to move a slider on a scale from zero to 100 degrees. The remaining 7 percent responded in other ways. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or mi...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, a churchlaw expert and former head of the Vatican's highest court, arrived in Guam Feb.15 as the presiding judge in a church trial investigating allegations of sexualabuse leveled against Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of Agana.The Vatican press office confirmed a "tribunal of the firstinstance" was constituted by the Vatican Oct. 5 and its presiding judge isCardinal Burke. Four other judges, all of whom are bishops, also were appointed,the press office said."When an action is in a 'first instance' court, thatindicates that it is in the initial trial phase," according to the websiteof the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which handles accusations ofclerical sexual abuse.Three men have publicly accused Archbishop Apuron ofsexually abusing them when they were altar boys in the 1970s. The mother of afourth man, now deceased, also accused the archbishop of abusing her son.Archbishop Apuron ha...
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DELPHI, Ind. (AP) -- Two bodies found along a northern Indiana stream are those of two 13-year-old girls who went missing Monday and their deaths are being investigated as homicides, authorities said on Wednesday....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fast food CEO Andrew Puzder's nomination to be President Donald Trump's secretary of labor appears to be in serious trouble....
BRUSSELS (AP) -- In an ultimatum to America's allies, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told fellow NATO members Wednesday to increase military spending by year's end or risk seeing the U.S. curtail its defense support - a stark threat given Europe's deep unease already over U.S.-Russian relations....
OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- Officials scrambled Wednesday to drain more water from a lake behind battered Oroville Dam before new storms hit Northern California and test the quick repairs made after water cascaded down an unpaved spillway and prompted a massive evacuation....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Trump administration appears to be easing away from longstanding U.S. support for Palestinian statehood as the preferred outcome of Middle East peace efforts, which may please some allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. But the alternatives are few, and each comes with daunting and combustible complications, including for Israel itself....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump blamed intelligence officials and the media Wednesday for what he called the "very, very unfair" treatment of his ousted national security adviser and for "illegally leaked" information about reported contacts between his campaign advisers and Russian officials....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked Israel's prime minister to "hold off" on building Jewish settlements in land the Palestinians claim for their future state, yet held back from explicitly endorsing support for a future independent Palestine....
