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      <title>Book Discussion on [Mortal Sins]</title>
      <description>Michael D'Antonio talked about his book, [Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal], in which he reports on the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. In his book, the author examines thirty years of sexual abuse claims against priests and the Church's reaction. Mr. D'Antonio spoke on a panel with Barbara Blaine, president and founder of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, Reverend Thomas P. Doyle, attorney Jeff Anderson, and former priest and monk Patrick Wall. The event was hosted by the Culture Project at 45 Bleecker Street in New York City.</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [Light without Fire]</title>
      <description>Scott Korb talked about his book, [Light without Fire: The Making of America's First Muslim College], in which he recounts the creation of the first four-year Muslim liberal arts college, Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. The author follows the school's first class and profiles its founders, Hamza Yusuf and Imam Zaid Shakir. Scott Korb spoke at the New York University Bookstore in New York City.</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [The God Argument]</title>
      <description>A.C. Grayling spoke with Book TV in London about his book, [The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism]. He is the author of more than 30 non-fiction books, including the following:
[Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age] (2001); [Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God] (2002); [What Is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live] (2003); [The Mystery of Things] (2004); [The Art of Always Being Right] (2004); [The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century] (2005); [The Form of Things: Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty in the 21st Century] (2006); [Among the Dead Cities: Was the Allied Bombing of Civilians in WWII a Necessity or a Crime?] (2006); [On Religion] (2007) and [The Good Book] (2011).
Book TV in London was series of interviews conducted in April 2013, in which some of Great Britain's most acclaimed historians, philosophers, literary critics and more spoke about, politics, war, history, religion and culture.</description>
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      <title>Holocaust Memory in Europe</title>
      <description>Senior government officials from Germany, Poland, and France talked about efforts to combat the spread of anti-Semitism in Europe.
This discussion was part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's 20th anniversary series of panels on the Holocaust and preventing future atrocities around the world.</description>
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      <title>Religion and Politics</title>
      <description>Senate Chaplain Barry Black talked about the role of religious liberty and political freedom in the founding of the United States, the conflict between religious and secular views of society, and ways to bridge the divide between the two philosophies. During questions from the audience members, topics included the role of military chaplains, the origins of prayer in Congress, and the influence of religion on democracy.</description>
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      <title>Islamic Extremism in Chechnya</title>
      <description>Witnesses testified about Islamic extremism in the Northern Caucasus and Chechnya, and potential links between extremist groups and the Boston Marathon bombing. Among the topics they addressed were levels of security cooperation between the U.S. and Russia, the political goals of separatist movements in Chechnya, immigration policy, and the degree to which suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing were influenced by their ethnic ties to the region.</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [From Jamestown to Jefferson]</title>
      <description>Professor Paul Rasor talked about his book, [From Jamestown to Jefferson: The Evolution of Religious Freedom in Virginia], in which he reveals the deep roots of colonial Virginia's religious diversity.
C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2013 LCV Cities Tour" in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on March 18-22 to feature the history and literary life of the community.*Working with the Cox Communications local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed.*The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [Persecuted]</title>
      <description>Co-authors Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, and Nina Shea talked about their book, [Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians], in which they look at the persecution of Christians around the world. Their discussion, hosted by the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, was moderated by Eric Metaxas, author of [Bonhoeffer].</description>
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      <title>White House Easter Prayer Breakfast</title>
      <description>President Obama and Vice President Biden spoke at an Easter prayer breakfast in the East Room. President Obama talked about his recent visit to Jerusalem and the Nativity Church. Father Snyder prayed for the president and the Children of the Gospel Church sang.</description>
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      <title>Russell Moore on the Role of Religion in American Politics and Culture</title>
      <description>Russell Moore described the role that religion plays in American politics and culture, including issues such as abortion, immigration, same-sex marriage, and efforts to curb guns and violence. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.</description>
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      <title>Obama Family Leaving Easter Sunday Church Services</title>
      <description>President Obama and his family were seen leaving St. John's Episcopal Church after Easter Sunday services and walking back to the White House through Lafayette Square.</description>
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      <title>Open Phones</title>
      <description>Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the question, "Should religion play a role in politics?"</description>
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      <description>Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the question, "Should religion play a role in politics?"</description>
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      <title>Weekly Presidential Address</title>
      <description>In his weekly address President Obama talked about the significance of East and Passover.</description>
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      <title>Religion and Presidential Rhetoric, Part 2</title>
      <description>Panelists at Regent University's annual Ronald Reagan Symposium talked about how presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama have used biblical rhetoric.*They also discussed how faith has influenced ideology.*This was the afternoon session of "God and Man in the Oval Office: Religion and Presidential Rhetoric."</description>
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      <title>Religion and Presidential Rhetoric, Part 1</title>
      <description>Panelists at Regent University's annual Ronald Reagan Symposium talked about how presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama have used biblical rhetoric. They also discussed how faith has influenced ideology. This was the morning session of "God and Man in the Oval Office: Religion and Presidential Rhetoric."</description>
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      <title>Election of Pope Francis</title>
      <description>Highlights following the election by the Conclave of Cardinals of Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina to be the next pope included scenes of the crowds cheering the white smoke as bells rang and the newly-named Pope Francis blessing the crowd in St. Peter's Square and a portion of his prayer in Italian.
Courtesy of Vatican TV.</description>
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      <title>New York Jews in the Age of Immigration</title>
      <description>Co-authors Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer talked about their book, [Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration 1840-1920]. Using photographs and first person accounts, they describe in their book how New York City influenced Jewish immigrants, and how the immigrants in turn transformed the city.</description>
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      <title>Religious Liberty</title>
      <description>Panelists talked about Stanford University Law School's Religious Liberty Clinic and the types of cases the clinic would handle. Some of the issues they covered included the right to wear a turban working in McDonalds, getting a circumcision in prison, animal and human sacrifices, bringing religious weapons into government buildings, the distribution of drugs against religious convictions, and the health care law requirement for employer-covered contraceptives. They discussed recent and current federal and Supreme Court cases. The program included questions from audience members.</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [The Thistle and the Drone]</title>
      <description>American University professor Akbar Ahmed talked about his book, [The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam]. He also talked about the debate over the use of drones by the Obama administration. This interview, recorded at American University in Washington, DC, was part of Book TV's College Series.</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [Going Clear]</title>
      <description>Lawrence Wright, staff writer for the [New Yorker], talked about his book, [Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief], in which he reports on the Church of Scientology. In his book, the author, who interviewed over two hundred former and current Scientologists, examines the inner workings of the Church, recounts its history, and profiles its founder, the late science fiction writer, L. Ron Hubbard. Lawrence Wright spoke at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [Why Priests?: A Failed Tradition ]</title>
      <description>Garry Wills talked about his book, [Why Priests?: A Failed Tradition], in which he questions whether Christianity would be stronger without the priesthood, as it was at its outset. He also responded to questions from the audience in the Trinity United Methodist Church at the 2013 Savannah Book Festival.</description>
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      <title>Debate on Same Sex Marriage Bill</title>
      <description>Members of Parliament debated a measure legalizing same-sex marriage in Great Britain.</description>
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      <title>National Prayer Breakfast</title>
      <description>President Obama spoke at the annual congressional prayer breakfast, where legislators, officials and clergy gathered to offer thanks for the blessings bestowed on the United States. In his remarks President Obama highlighted his Christian faith, praised Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln, and encouraged the nation to find common ground. He also emphasized the role of faith in formulating good policy, saying "Faith is not a possession. Faith is a process."</description>
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      <title>Open Phones</title>
      <description>Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the White House offer for religious groups to opt-out of contraceptive coverage. Workers would then receive a separate private insurance policy providing birth control coverage at no cost. Sarah Kliff also spoke by phone about the offer.
A promotion for C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicle program on Santa Fe, New Mexico was shown at the end of the program.</description>
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      <title>Irish Parliament Examining Current Abortion Law</title>
      <description>The Irish Parliament held a three-day public hearing to examine their current abortion law. Committee members heard testimony from medical and legal experts, religious leaders and advocacy groups on recommendations for more clarity in Ireland's abortion laws. In this panel, maternity doctors and health professionals testified on abortion law in Ireland. Doctors told committee members that "there is a degree of legal uncertainty" and recommended new laws that were "workable and practical" and protected the rights of doctors.</description>
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      <title>Inaugural Prayer Service</title>
      <description>President and Michelle Obama and Vice President and Jill Biden attended the National Prayer where ministers representing various religious traditions offered prayers for the country and the president. The service also included devotional music.</description>
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      <title>Roger Williams and the Founding of Providence</title>
      <description>History Professor Stanley Lemons talked about about the founding of the First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island, as well as its founder Roger Williams.
C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2012 LCV Cities Tour" in Providence, Rhode Island to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Cox Communications local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [Saturday People, Sunday People]</title>
      <description>Lela Gilbert talked about her book, [Saturday Perople, Sunday People: Israel Through the Eyes of a Christian Sojurner], in which she chronicles her experiences in Israel, where she lived, on and off, since 2006. She also talked about the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were driven out of Muslim countries between 1948 and 1970 and the parallel experiences of Christians today. This event was hosted by the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC.</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates]</title>
      <description>Author Howard Bloom talked about his book, [The God Problem: how A Godless Cosmos Creates], in which he explains his theory of how the universe was created without a creator, and how the universe might end. This talk was hosted by Columbia University Bookstore in New York City.</description>
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      <title>Relationship Between Religion and Politics</title>
      <description>Author George Will talked about the history of the relationship between religion and American politics. Mr. Will addressed students and faculty at the John Danforth Center on Religion and Politics. He was introduced by former U.S. Senator John Danforth. He also answered questions from the audience.</description>
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      <title>Open Phones</title>
      <description>Telephone lines were open for comments on the question, "Does religion influence your politics?"</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [Sacred Ground]</title>
      <description>Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama's inaugural Faith Council, talked about his book, [Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America], in which he argues that America should strive to be a pluralistic country where religion is a bridge to cooperation rather than a fissure between people. Mr. Patel, the president and founder of Interfaith Youth Core, spoke with Ed Bacon, rector of All Saints Episcopal Church of Pasadena, California at the Los Angeles Public Library.</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [The Spirit of the Law]</title>
      <description>Professor Sarah Gordon talked about her book, [The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America], in which she presents religious cases in U.S. History that have transformed the laws of the country and illuminated protections afforded to religion in the U.S. Constitution. This interview, part of Book TV's College Series, was recorded at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.</description>
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      <title>Book Discussion on [Lily of the Mohawks]</title>
      <description>Author Jack Casey talked about his book [Lily of the Mohawks], in which he chronicles the life of Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk woman who survived smallpox, lost her family to the disease, and was eventually baptized as a Roman Catholic. The book was re-released after Tekakwitha became the first-ever Native American Catholic saint in October 2012.
C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2012 LCV Cities Tour" in Albany, New York to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.</description>
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      <description>Members of the Irish Dial (Parliament) debated the country's abortion laws.
This portion of the debate took place on November 21, 2012.</description>
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      <description>Members of the Irish Dial (Parliament) debated the country's abortion laws.
This portion of the debate took place on November 20, 2012.</description>
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      <description>Martha Nussbaum talked about her book, [The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age], in which she examined anti-Muslim bigotry in the West since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. She responded to questions from the audience.</description>
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      <description>Gene Robinson, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire and the first openly-gay person elected to the episcopate, talked about his book, [God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage], in which he presented his argument for gay marriage. He spoke at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts and responded to questions from the audience.</description>
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      <description>Gregory Smith talked about the role religion was playing in the 2012 election, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Topics included how various religious voting blocs might affct the election.</description>
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      <description>Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, looked at President Franklin Roosevelt's relationship with the American Jewish community, and efforts by Jewish leaders to influence administration policy during the Nazi era. The Wyman Institute at Fordham University in New York City hosted this event. He responded to questions from the audience.</description>
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The discussion, "The Catholic Vote in the 2012 Election," was held by the Catholic University's Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at the National Press Club.</description>
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      <description>Panelists examined tensions between the freedoms of expression and religion in the context of political transitions happening in the Middle East and North Africa. Among the subjects they discussed were the power of social media, religious identity, and the complexity of religious expression. The program included questions from audience members.</description>
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      <description>Author Salman Rushdie discusses his memoir, [Joseph Anton], in which he discussed his ten years spent in hiding as a result of the fatwa issued against him by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 for his authorship of the novel, [The Satanic Verses].</description>
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      <description>Representative of the Marist public opinion poll presented data and insights on the views of the American electorate toward religious and moral issues. They presented pre-debate numbers on the 2012 presidential race in the battle ground states as well as public opinion on a range of issues. Lee Miringoff dismissed allegations by Mitt Romney supporters of Democratic bias in recent polls. He said pollsters do not deliberately choose the proportion of Democrats to Republicans in any given poll. They responded to questions from members of the audience.
The panel "Getting Beyond the Labels in an Election Year: U.S. Views on Key Religious Issues" was part of the 2012 annual conference of the Religion Newswriters Association, held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland.</description>
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The panel "Whose First Amendment?" was part of the 2012 annual conference of the Religion Newswriters Association, held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland.
Due to technical difficulties, seven minutes are missing from the program.</description>
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One of the panelists, Sandra Fluke, received national attention after she was barred from testifying at a House Oversight Committee hearing on insurance companies' coverage of contraception, and was the subject of derogatory comments by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.</description>
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      <description>Steve Inskeep talked about his book, [Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi]. 
He was interviewed while at the 12th annual National Book Festival, held on the National Mall.
The program opened and closed with scheduling information.</description>
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      <description>Tariq Ramadan talked about the causes behind the 2011 popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, and the role Islam will play in the futures of the countries involved. He also responded to questions from members of the audience at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.</description>
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      <description>Speakers at the afternoon session of the Values Voter Summit included Governor Bob McDonnell (R-VA), and Representatives Steve King (R-IA) and Allen West (R-FL). Saving the American Dream Panel - Connie Mackey, President, FRC Action PAC* - Genevieve Wood, Vice President of Marketing, The Heritage Foundation* * Gary Bauer, President, American Values* Ted Cruz, Candidate for U.S. Senate, Texas; Former Solicitor General of Texas* Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)*</description>
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