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Thoko Mkhwanazi-Xaluva, head of the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities, seated right, with other CRL members (photo courtesy of CRL)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Church opposes new plans to regulate religious practice in South Africa
Russell Pollitt, S.J.
The director of Freedom of Religion South Africa, Michael Swain, said that government had no business “meddling with religion.”
Rosmaida Bibi, right, who suffers from severe malnutrition, sits with her 20-year old mother Hamida Begum outside their makeshift shelter at the Dar Paing camp, north of Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, in March 2017. Rosmaida Bibi looks a lot like any of the underfed 1-year-olds in a squalid camp for Myanmar's displaced ethnic Rohingya minority—but she's 4. She cannot grow, and her mother can't find anyone to help her because authorities won't let Rohingya leave the camp. (AP Video)
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In Myanmar, one girl's plight epitomizes Rohingya struggle
Todd Pitman - Associated Press
Frail and severely malnourished, she looks a lot like every other underfed child here—until you realize she's not really like any of them at all. A tiny girl with big brown eyes, Rosmaida is 4—but barely the size of a 1-year-old.
People gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26 in Washington. (CNS photo/Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA) 
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Religious freedom supporters are applauding Supreme Court decision on Lutheran school
Josephine von Dohlen - Catholic News Service
The high court, in a 7-2 ruling in Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, sided with the religious school.
Activists rally outside U.S. Supreme Court in Washington June 26 after the court sided with Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia, Mo., which sued after being denied a state grant for creating a safer playground (CNS photo/Yuri Gripas, Reuters). 
Politics & SocietyNews
Can religious schools receive state funds? Supreme Court gives a qualified yes.
Ellen K. Boegel
The Supreme Court court ruled on June 26 that the government may not exclude religious groups from grant programs simply because they are religious.
Activists rally outside U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on June 26 after the court sided with Trinity Lutheran Church in Columbia, Mo., which sued after being denied a state grant for creating a safer playground. (CNS photo/Yuri Gripas, Reuters)
FaithNews
Supreme Court rules church school can't be barred from state funds for playground
Carol Zimmermann - Catholic News Service
The Supreme Court said a Lutheran preschool should not be excluded from a state grant program to refurbish its playground surface just because it is a religious entity.
People display signs showing their support for religious freedom during a 2012 rally in downtown Minneapolis. It has been 20 years since the International Religious Freedom Act was passed by Congress and became law. (CNS photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
FaithNews
Bishops urge renewed dedication to efforts to protect religious liberty
Josephine von Dohlen - Catholic News Service
"Freedom for Mission" is the theme of the 2017 Fortnight for Freedom, taking place on June 21 to July 4.
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