A Pennsylvania independent pro baseball team canceled its Pride Night game Thursday, citing players’ refusal to wear uniforms with rainbow sleeves one week after three San Francisco Giants players altered their own team’s Pride-themed hats. (Moret, The New York Times)
Read MoreAs the summer reading season begins in earnest, a third of Americans say they're reading fewer books for personal enjoyment than they did 10 years ago — a decline that cuts across age and education levels. (Backus, CBS News)
Read MoreWhile many of the World Cup’s competing nations are wracked by social divisions, some of their teams offer strikingly positive examples of how players from different backgrounds and religious faiths can cooperate closely in pursuit of a common goal. (Crary, AP News)
Read MoreIn a press release posted Wednesday, the Michigan-based agency announced that its board voted to “clarify and reinforce” its Christian faith commitments. (Post, Christianity Today)
Read MoreThe ban, which is expected to take effect early next year, makes the U.K. part of a growing global movement to tighten online safety for children. Australia, Canada, Brazil and Indonesia have introduced legislation or announced age-based restrictions or requirements for children’s access to social media. (Hui & Melley, AP News)
Read MoreSince Quebec pioneered assisted dying in Canada in 2015, it has fueled a profound social transformation in the French-speaking province. Choosing to die, on one’s own terms and without suffering, is now seen as an individual right in a society that has rejected the Roman Catholic Church’s teaching that euthanasia is a grave sin. (Onishi, The New York Times)
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