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U.S. to track religious discrimination in schools as anti-Muslim sentiment grows - The Washington Post

September 9, 2016
The U.S. Education Department announced it will begin collecting data this year about allegations of discrimination or bullying of students based on their religion, bringing new attention to what educators and advocates call a growing problem in public schools, particularly for Muslim students.

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‘I do not see myself as a failure’: Fresh peeks into Pope Benedict’s new memoir - The Washington Post

September 9, 2016
Retired Pope Benedict XVI said that practical governance of the Catholic Church was not his “strong point” but said that many people found “a new life in the faith” during his eight years as pontiff, according to two English translations of excerpts of the book-length interview set to be released in Italian on Friday.

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Kolkata Testifies to the Grace of Mother Teresa, Its New Saint - The New York Times

September 6, 2016
KOLKATA, India — When Mother Teresa’s canonization took place on Sunday, a battered-looking audience gathered in front of a screen some 4,500 miles east of St. Peter’s Square: men with caved-in chests, weeping sores wrapped in gauze, extremities missing entirely, legs so thin you could encircle them with a finger and thumb.

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