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Jose Luis Magana / AP Health and Human Services and the Religious-Liberty War
Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services is pitting religious freedom against abortion and LGBTQ rights.
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Courtesy of HarperCollins / The Atlantic Rachel Held Evans, Hero to Christian Misfits
The firebrand writer died unexpectedly over the weekend at the age of 37.
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Carl De Souza / AFP / Getty Photos: The Worshippers of the Valley of the Dawn
Spiritual communication, alien reincarnation, Judeo-Christian doctrine, Egyptian symbolism, mysticism, and more are practiced and taught by this religious community in Vale do Amanhecer, just outside Brasilia, Brazil.
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Eranga Jayawardena / AP How Sri Lanka’s Christians Became a Target
The island nation’s religious minority was rarely threatened. The Easter bombings changed that.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Young Activists Are Done With Loyalty Tests. Donald Trump Is Not.
Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is part of a new generation that rejects demands for performances of patriotism, including those related to 9/11.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Democrats Have to Decide Whether Faith Is an Asset for 2020
The religious left has gotten giddy about South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, but campaign infrastructure and policy matter more than rhetoric.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters AIPAC Is Losing Control of the Narrative on Israel
American Jews are very uncomfortable with Trump, but the pro-Israel lobby has embraced him wholeheartedly.
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Lexey Swall A Secret Database of Child Abuse
A former Jehovah's Witness is using stolen documents to expose allegations that the religion has kept hidden for decades.
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Frank Franklin II / Associated Press ‘This Could Have Been Their 9/11 Moment’
A generation of young American Muslims is coming of age in a time when a mass shooting at a mosque is horrifying, but not surprising.
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Mladen Antonov / AFP / Getty Photos: An Ancient Ceremony to Celebrate the End of Winter
Images of Maslenitsa, a Slavic Shrovetide festival, as celebrated in Russia, Belarus, and Kyrgyzstan.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Fight Over Ilhan Omar Is a Fight Over the Identity of the Democratic Party
A House vote on bigotry underscored powerful changes in the party’s coalition, including among young Muslims.
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Sid Hastings / AP Conservative Christians Just Retook the United Methodist Church
The mainline denomination voted on Tuesday to toughen its teachings against homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ clergy. It must now decide whether it will stay together.
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Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe / … Why Does the Catholic Church Keep Failing on Sexual Abuse?
Cardinal Seán O'Malley has spent decades cleaning up after pedophile priests. Now he's once again found himself in the middle of a crisis.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Ilhan Omar Just Made It Harder to Have a Nuanced Debate About Israel
The Minnesota congresswoman has given credence to caricatures of critics of Israel.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Sees an Opening With Voters on Late-Term Abortion
The president lamented bills that would allow “a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments from birth” in his State of the Union address.
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Charlie Rosser These Preachers Perform Mass Exorcisms—And Live-Stream Them
In Ethiopia, some monks are using Facebook and YouTube to gain thousands of disciples, who see them as modern Messiahs.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Women Are Not a Monolith
Women from around the country will march this weekend. But they won’t all be marching together.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Want to Cultivate a Liberal European Islam? Look to Bosnia.
Throughout the 20th century, Bosnian Muslim thinkers offered creative theological interpretations that squared with European life.
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Alex Brandon Trump’s Evangelical Advisers Could Help Him Secure a Win on Sentencing Reform
Conservative Christian leaders are a major force behind criminal-justice legislation being considered in the Senate. But black and progressive clergy see danger in allying with the president, even on this issue.
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David Gray / Reuters China Reneges on Its Deals. The Vatican Is Learning That the Hard Way.
The disappearance of a bishop is an object lesson in interacting with Beijing.
