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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a “Dear Colleague” letter emphasizing the responsibility of HHS-funded health and human service providers to…
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He called it religio athetae—the religion of athletics. And he fervently believed that the achievement of perfection of mind and body was the path to the…
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This article is part of a Wikipedia Religious UnReliable Sources series. A love story Introduction: Reliable Sources Wikipedia administrator David Gerard cares a great deal about…
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World Religion News is proud to announce a new series: “Wikipedia Religious UnReliable Sources”. This investigative series delves into the complex world of Wikipedia’s policies on…
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Aug 30, 2024
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Louisiana’s public school system is ranked 49th out of the 50 states of our Republic. That’s 49th in quality, 47th in dropout rate, 47th in reading…
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The first time you crack open your high school yearbook should be the first of decades of doing the same, lingering over photos that evoke cherished…
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“Raise your hand if you’re a Zionist,” the mob chanted. “This is your chance to get out.” No one on the crowded New York subway car…
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Louisiana will be the first state to require poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. In a further encroachment of religion into secular…
Christianity
In a victory for anti-abortionists, most of them—according to a recent Public Religion Research Institute survey—White Christian nationalists—the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the right to…
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It would have been—and still could be—the first taxpayer-funded religious public school in America, representing not one small step but a giant leap across the wall…
Issues
Adam, according to Genesis, was made of the dust of the earth. Not so Eve. Adam’s better half was fashioned from one of his ribs—from bone.…
Catholicism
He raised his hands and asked the 110,000 faithful packing the stadium to pray with him for the three-year-old toddler who couldn’t walk without heavy braces…