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Managing editor Kim Lawton has a special report from this week\u2019s Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia,\u00a0where she spoke to religiously motivated delegates and religious groups who have been actively seeking attention for their key issues.\u00a0Kim also spoke to Hillary Clinton advisors about Clinton\u2019s personal faith and to Democratic strategists about the challenges of reaching out to faith-based voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe income and wealth disparity in our nation that’s tearing us apart, the anger, the fear, the judgmentalness, the racism that we’ve seen in our country\u2014it\u2019s tearing holes in the fabric of our society,\u201d says Sister Simone Campbell, leader of Network Lobby\u2019s Nuns on the Bus project. \u201cCan we step together into a future, as opposed to pulling apart for partisan gain?\u201d More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":31839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","topics-culture-and-society","topics-ethics","topics-faith-and-spirituality","topics-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nReligion and the 2016 Democratic National Convention | August 1, 2016 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | 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