Holding the door open, offering a compliment, paying for someone's coffee, or handing someone a flower just because you can, World Kindness Day celebrates acts of kindness big and small. (Gomez, USA Today)
Read MoreU.S. Catholic bishops voted Wednesday to make official a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals. The step formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. (Stanley, AP News)
Read MoreChina, Russia, Iran and North Korea form an “Axis of Upheaval” whose members collude to repress religious freedom both within – and often outside – their borders, a new study says. (Camp, Baptist Press)
Read MoreCalifornia has nearly 500,000 young people ages 16 to 24 who are in the same predicament, neither working nor in school. Finding them a job is part of the solution, but it goes much deeper than that. Many are struggling socially and emotionally, too, making it even harder to move forward. (Echelman, Los Angeles Times)
Read MoreRemember "beige flags," "icks" and "situationships"? Well, those terms are so last year. Now, daters are having to deal with "throning," "Banksying" and "ZIP coding." They're also getting "monkey barred" − and no, that one's not as sweet and innocent as it sounds. (Trepany, USA Today)
Read MoreThe announcement, which came with no comment from the justices, indicates there is not an appetite among the high court’s conservative majority to revisit the case known as Obergefell v. Hodges, one of the court’s most significant decisions in recent years. June marked the 10-year anniversary of the ruling. (Jouvenal & Berman, The Washington Post)
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