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Ask A Mormon: What’s the church’s stance on capital punishment?

My question is: does the LDS church have an official stand on capital punishment? Is there also a general belief system you could speak to on executions from a Mormon point of view?

NYPD: Muslims are terrorists

For many years in the aftermath of the 9/11, we have been told that America is not at war with Islam or Muslims, but only with Muslim extremists/radicals/terrorists.

It seems that the New York Police Department has other ideas.

The ethics of a Syrian military intervention: The experts respond

As the Obama administration readies for a probable military strike against Syria, Religion News Service asked a panel of theologians and policy experts whether the U.S. should intervene in Syria in light of the regime’s use of chemical weapons against civilians.

After bombings, shootings, a book and now a movie: Sellerstown church community healing

We wrap up our "Religion & Violence" series this week in North Carolina with a decades-old story. Since the bombings that rocked the Free Welcome Holiness Church’s parsonage and sanctuary on Sellerstown Road near Whiteville 35 years ago, pastors hired there often hear something like this: “You mean you’re going to preach at that church that used to get blown up all the time? You’re gonna get shot.” That’s how the Rev. Roger Coffey, the church’s current pastor, remembers the dire warnings he heard in 2001. But for those on Sellerstown Road who experienced the 10 bombings from 1972 to 1978, plus the shootings of a pastor and his wife there, the memories are still close.

Wheatley first laywoman to lead Gonzaga’s University Ministry

With Michelle Wheatley’s anticipated promotion to director of University Ministry at Gonzaga, comes another first for the university.

Wheatley is the first laywoman to lead the program. Her promotion comes four years after the university elected Thayne McCulloh as its first lay president.

City to honor murder victims with memorial, vigil

In observance of the “National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims”, the Spokane County Victim/Witness Unit will hold a vigil on Sept. 25 in the County Commissioner’s Hearing Room on the Lower Level of the Public Works Building, 1026 W. Broadway Ave., from 5:30-7:30 p.m.

POLL: How do you rate your level of technological reverence?

More people are fiddling with their smartphones or tablets in church.

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