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Catholicism
Facebook Rolls Out Prayer Group; Churches, Organizations Pitch In To Help in Dixie Fire; Supreme Court’s Next Big One: Religion and Abortion; Infrastructure Bill Enforces Gender…
WRN Editorial Staff
Aug 16, 2021
Christian
If I were a traditional journalist, I would not interview Bishop Jon Fish of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He makes no accusations,…
Catholicism
INTRODUCTION His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is the 270th Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Born in present-day Turkey in 1940, Dimitrios Archontonis, as Bartholomew…
Buddhism
Scientologist Wins Case Against Munich “Sect Filter;” Religious Restrictions Return with Rise of Delta Variant; Vatican Launches Global Compact on the Family; Problems With Biden’s Religious…
WRN Editorial Staff
Aug 12, 2021
Catholicism
Introduction In October 2020, when Pope Francis announced his selection of 13 new cardinals from eight countries as diverse as Rwanda, Chile, Brunei and Mexico, he…
Jewish
Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth Introduction “What do we worship?” The question, as Rabbi Lord Jonathan Henry Sacks put it in…
Buddhist
The International Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism announced that their beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh passed away peacefully at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam…
Christian
It’s an old story: A business like Enron or Pfizer goes flat out for profit, ethics and the law be damned and boom! Enron is disemboweled…
Featured Contributors
One might suppose that religious liberty in the United States, would – like granite cliffs – withstand any ocean storm of legal assaults. It is, after…
Bahá'í
Public outrage following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis led to global demonstrations in the name of justice. Now as we all struggle to find…
WRN Editorial Staff
Jul 10, 2020
Books
Scientologists today celebrate Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, published on May 9, 1950. The book, by popular writer L. Ron Hubbard, was an instant…
Mormonism
In tech circles, we tend to hand out to others the books that impress us. I once did that with a book called Focus, buying over…