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    03-05-2022 kslmadmin

Town Hall News

RELIGION HEADLINES WED 6-17

todayJune 17, 2026

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(SRN NEWS)-(  )  Soon, half of all American school kids will live in states that offer public money for a private education.  Texas is the latest to join in, budgeting one billion to spend this fall on private and religious school scholarships as well as homeschooling expenses.  Next year, the federal government will start incentivizing private school scholarships in states that have never offered them before.  A growing number of parents want to pull their kids from the public schools over issues such as transgenderism and pornographic reading assignments.  Religious schools have been a primary beneficiary with moms and dads looking to them for better education.

 
(  )  There is an unusual battle going on in the small town of Fairview, Texas.  The town is asking the Mormon Church to voluntarily lower the steeple of its planned Fairview Temple from 120 feet to 100 feet.  Town officials call it a gesture of goodwill to the church’s neighbors.  Fairview already lost a legal battle to shorten the steeple.  Now the town council is asking for a dialogue with Mormon leaders to achieve their goal.  When faced with zoning restrictions the Church defended itself using the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.  The Fairview Temple is expected to be completed in the summer of 2028.
 
(  )  Some of the overlooked casualties of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are the nation’s historic churches.  Russian latest bombardment of Ukraine’s biggest cities has set ablaze part of an Eastern Orthodox landmark.  Church and cultural officials say the Dormition (dor-MISH-un) Cathedral inside a historic monastery in Kyiv was damaged this week.  The complex was built between the 11th and 19th centuries and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.  Since the Russian invasion began in 2022, roughly 740 churches and other religious buildings have been destroyed or damaged.  Most have been Orthodox but Protestant, Catholic and Jewish structures have also been targeted.

 

(  )  Vice President J.D. Vance, whose religious faith has been central to his adult life, writes about his spiritual journey in a new book.  Observers say “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” could ultimately serve as a kind of origin story for a future presidential campaign.  Vance has been working on his new book during a busy decade that included a Hollywood movie about his youth, a short stint as a U.S. senator from Ohio and now vice president to Donald Trump.  “Communion” serves as a kind of manifesto for the role of religion in public life. The book hits shelves less than five months before the midterm elections.

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