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Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago and Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan are pictured in a Jan. 6, 2018, and Feb. 19, 2017, panel photo. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Chicago Catholic/Rebecca Cook, Reuters) 
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Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
"Minister Farrakhan could have taken the opportunity to deliver a unifying message of God’s love for all his children. Instead, he repeatedly smeared the Jewish people, using a combination of thinly veiled discriminatory rhetoric and outright slander."
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Bronwen Dachs - Catholic News Service
A South African archbishop has urged the government to act against xenophobic attacks, which have increased as general elections approach.
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Catholic News Service
The fee would be $27.20 per semester and the figure represents the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved individuals by the Maryland province of the Society of Jesus province for the benefit of Georgetown University.
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The Editors
In 1939, the editors spoke out against the Daughters of the American Revolution when the group tried to prevent Marian Anderson from performing in Constitution Hall. Anderson performed instead at the Lincoln Memorial before a crowd of 75,000.
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Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service
The State of Louisiana currently has about 100 investigators trying to determine the cause of the recent spate of fires devastating a number of historically African American churches throughout the state.
Fire destroys the main offices of the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tenn., on March 29, 2019. The center is a social justice center that trained the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders. Representatives of the center said Tuesday, April 2, 2019, that a white power symbol was also found spray painted on the parking lot near the building. (Sammy Solomon/New Market Fire and Rescue Team via AP)
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Yonat Shimron - Religion News Service
The local sheriff said the fire may have been intentionally set, after a “symbol connected to the white power movement” was found spray-painted in the parking lot. On April 4, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress that white supremacy is a “persistent, pervasive threat” to U.S. security.