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			<title><![CDATA[Supporters of Crosses at Veterans Memorials Launch 'Don't Tear Me Down' Campaign]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A religious freedom legal team has launched a Memorial Day campaign that includes the release of the music video, "Don't Tear Me Down"' The video's release coincides with an effort to combat opposition to the use of the Christian cross and other symbols of faith at U.S. veterans' memorials.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 13:56:46 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Are Catholic Leaders Attacking Obama to Help Republicans?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[E. J. Dionne, a liberal columnist for The Washington Post, suggested in a Monday blog post that Catholic leaders who are opposing the Obama administration's birth control mandate could be doing so to help Republicans in the November elections.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 08:48:34 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Catholics, Evangelicals May Coordinate on Religious Freedom Event This Summer]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Catholic Church will hold an event this summer called "Fortnight for Freedom" to bring attention to religious freedom issues. The Christian Post has learned that discussions are underway to include evangelical organizations with these events. Evangelical organizations have expressed solidarity with Catholic leaders who oppose the Obama administration's birth control mandate, which, they argue, is a religious freedom issue.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:29:45 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Expert: American Misunderstandings on Religious Liberty Affect Efforts Abroad]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A former director of the State Department's Office of Religious Freedom believes misunderstandings regarding religious liberty in America have made it hard to advance religious liberty abroad.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 14:31:01 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Atheist Activists Oppose City Bonds to Finance Church Project]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A national atheist activist group says an Indiana church's plans to use tax exempt bond financing to help construct a campus for its ministries is a violation of the state's constitution and the separation of church and state clause in the Constitution.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 07:20:27 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Dolan: Obama Administration Doesn't Understand Our 'Horror' Over Mandate Exemption]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The narrow religious exemption for the Obama administration's birth control mandate is "strangling," and the administration fails to understand the "horror" Catholics feel over the exemption, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Tuesday on "CBS This Morning."]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 18:02:42 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[43 Catholic Agencies File Suit Over Birth Control Mandate]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Forty-three Catholic agencies filed suit in 12 separate federal courts Monday over the Department of Health and Human Services mandate requiring employers to cover contraception, sterilization and some abortifacient drugs in their health insurance policies.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:04:02 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[First-Grader Can Perform Chris Tomlin Song After Idaho School Reverses Ban]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[An Idaho first-grader's plan to perform a song by worship singer Chris Tomlin using sign language for a talent show is back on track after the school's principal originally banned the entry, deeming the song "too religious."]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 09:51:20 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Court Declares NY Town's Prayer Practice Unconstitutional]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a New York State town government's practice of opening nearly every meeting with a Christian prayer over the past 11 years is unconstitutional.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 15:18:33 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Washington Archdiocese Slams Georgetown President Over Sebelius Invitation]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Archdiocese of Washington, led by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, slammed Georgetown University on Tuesday for not withdrawing its invitation to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak at an awards ceremony.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 16:03:33 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Colo. Court Rules Day of Prayer Proclamations Unconstitutional]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A Colorado appeals court ruled last week that the state governors' previous proclamations regarding the National Day of Prayer were unconstitutional as they implied a "government endorsement of religion over nonreligion."]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:49:45 EDT</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Congress to Consider Bill Adding FDR Prayer to WWII Memorial]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A bill that would add a display of the prayer that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued for the D-Day invasion of World War II was introduced in the Senate Thursday.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 09:55:06 EDT</pubDate>        
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