Temple Beth El in Augusta will require masks inside the synagogue, but workers have erected a big tent in the yard for an outdoor service on Sept. 7.
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Conservative shift on U.S. Supreme Court could affect legal challenge to Maine’s vaccine mandate
The lawsuit is challenging the state’s vaccine mandate for health care workers over its lack of a religious exemption, and it could become a test case on whether such mandates must include religious exemptions.
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Episcopal bishop requires all Maine clergy, staff to get vaccine
The mandate applies to more than a dozen staff members and about 230 clergy, according to the diocese.
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U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Maine church’s case against pandemic restrictions
Calvary Chapel in Orrington asked the court to stop Gov. Janet Mills from enforcing or reinstating any restrictions related to the rapid spread of the delta variant.
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U.S. churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native residential schools
More than 150 boarding schools for Indigenous children in the United States were operated by religious groups between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries.
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Pope reverses Benedict, reimposes restrictions on Latin Mass
Pope Francis says he took the action because Pope Benedict XVI’s reform had become a source of division in the church and been exploited by Catholics opposed to the Second Vatican Council.
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Pope Francis makes first appearance since intestinal surgery
The pontiff, who had a portion of his colon removed last week, thanked well-wishers from his hospital balcony.
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Maine priest placed on leave following sexual abuse allegation
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland says it is following its protocol while investigating allegations that the Rev. Robert Vaillancourt abused an underage girl in the 1980s.
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Pope ‘reacted well’ to intestinal surgery
The Vatican says the 84-year-old Francis had been diagnosed with ‘symptomatic diverticular stenosis of the colon,’ a reference to a narrowing in the large intestine.
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Waldoboro church falls victim to pandemic, and others worry whether worshippers will return
Smaller organizations with older congregations that struggled to adapt during the pandemic are in the greatest danger of a downward spiral from which they can’t recover.