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A two-by-four is a two-by-four whether you are Christian, Muslim, Jewish or Hindu. So is a monkey wrench, and a hammer and a Phillips-head screwdriver. As church…
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Researcher Megan Squire puts it this way: “Imagine you have a playground at school and there is a bully on your playground. The teacher keeps putting…
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On May 14, 2022, Latisha, an assistant office manager at the Jefferson Avenue Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, New York, tried to make herself invisible. Lying behind…
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Church attendance is going down in the United States and elsewhere. Some churches are closing their doors, leaving their buildings uninhabited, their parishioners forced to find…
Christianity
A new study by Lifeway Research, a nonprofit that assists and equips church leaders with insights and advice to improve the health of their churches, shows…
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As the new year approaches, we look at the events of the past year—both in the world of religion and in World Religion News. What were…
WRN Editorial Staff
Dec 29, 2022
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Belief in God has dipped again. In the latest Gallup Poll, the American belief in an omnipotent, omnipresent deity dipped to 81%, down six percentage points…
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On November 3, 2022, at Thomas More University (TMU), an event was held with past and present Ambassadors-at-Large for International Religious Freedom—Rashad Hussain and Rabbi David…
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It’s 1929 in Los Angeles. There are one million residents in the city. Miracle Mile is becoming the new commercial center, drawing people out of downtown.…
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At the Bangor Christian School in Maine ninth-graders are taught to “refute the teachings of the Islamic religion with the truth of God’s Word.” To work…
Christianity
The spotlight never dims on Texas. Earlier this year a school district banned an Anne Frank adaptation, and now under a new state law, public schools…
WRN Editorial Staff
Sep 14, 2022
Anglicanism
Of her rich and immense legacy, not the least of Queen Elizabeth’s sterling attributes was her tolerance, encouragement, and impassioned pleas on behalf of interfaith tolerance…