Arizona Supreme Court Rules Clergy Need Not Report Child Abuse Disclosed in Confession
The ruling protects the confidentiality of religious confession, ending a lawsuit involving Mormon bishops who remained silent about abuse by parents.
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The ruling protects the confidentiality of religious confession, ending a lawsuit involving Mormon bishops who remained silent about abuse by parents.
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A Sri Lankan court found two former officials guilty of criminal negligence for the deadly 2019 Easter Sunday attacks, sentencing them to death. The officials plan to appeal the verdict.
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Ghazal Marzban, a Catholic prisoner in Tehran’s Evin prison, is on hunger strike as Christian arrests surge and the US calls for the release of political detainees.
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