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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The 'Muslim World' Does Not Exist
Presidential addresses like Trump's Riyadh speech rely on a faulty premise.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Speech on Islam, Annotated
In an address full of religious references, the American president avoided the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism."
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Erik Schelzig / Jim Cole / AP / … Franklin Graham Is the Evangelical Id
The famous preacher’s son embodies all the contradictions of Trump’s America.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Begins His Religion World Tour
The American president’s first international trip has been explicitly framed in terms of religious identity.
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Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters Where Russia Is Seen as a Buffer Against the U.S.
As some Americans worry about alleged undue influence from Russia, many Orthodox Christians are anxious about the inverse.
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Cliff Owen / AP 'Protecting Religious Freedom Is a Foreign-Policy Priority of the Trump Administration'
How—and when—will the White House carry out its verbal commitment to protect persecuted minorities overseas?
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Evan Vucci / AP It Was Cultural Anxiety That Drove White, Working-Class Voters to Trump
A new study finds that fear of societal change, not economic pressure, motivated votes for the president among non-salaried workers without college degrees.
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Han Jae-Ho / Reuters The Rise of Café Churches in South Korea
How corruption scandals are driving young Christians away from megachurches—and conservative politics
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters The Specter of Catholic Identity in Secular France
Marine Le Pen has invoked the heritage of the Church to explain the core of her nation’s identity. What role does religion really play in this high-stakes election?
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Kieran Doherty / Reuters Why Does Trump Want to Address Israel at Masada?
The famous fortress is about pageantry, and specifically the pageantry of the underdog.
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Evan Vucci / AP Why Trump's Executive Order on Religious Liberty Left Many Conservatives Dissatisfied
The president has won support from some high-profile evangelicals, but the move fell well short of expectations for many activists.
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Getty Images / Pascal Guyot Inside Béziers, France’s Far-Right Laboratory
“This town is like a testing ground for what the policies of the National Front would be if Marine Le Pen were elected.”
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How Two Mississippi College Students Fell in Love and Decided to Join a Terrorist Group
In three short months, Jaelyn Young and Muhammad Dakhlalla found themselves at the center of America’s debate over radicalization.
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Secular Muslim’?
In Italy, some want the category recognized by the government. Others say it’s totally meaningless.
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John Gress / Reuters Why Educated Christians Are Sticking With Church
New data suggests religious Americans with college experience tend to participate in services more often than their peers.
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters Should France Have Its Own Version of Islam?
With Marine Le Pen headed to the second round of elections, a top imam says he understands why some voters fear Muslims.
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Scott Olson / Getty / Anne Frank House … Who Does the Anne Frank Center Represent?
The organization has a flair for attracting media attention, but lacks a mass membership or scholarly expertise—and its connection to its famed namesake isn’t what it claims.
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Kevin Frayer / Getty In China, Unregistered Churches Are Driving a Religious Revolution
“The government won’t approve it, but the question is if they’ll shut it down.”
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters How Marine Le Pen Relies on Dividing French Jews and Muslims
The presidential hopeful's National Front party has been using this strategy for decades.
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Courtesy of Church of God and Saints of … When Passover Is About American Slavery
A plantation houseboy grew up to be a prophet—and inspired a religious movement.
