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Catholicism
Two Catholic girls have sued the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for denying them credits because teaching religion does not amount to University’s requirements for credits. A…
Agnosticism
An analysis of what may have driven so many Christians to vote for Donald Trump, and how people from other faiths voted. Although experts suggested that…
Catholicism
Pope Francis assigns Newark, New Jersey their first Cardinal. To a world that has been seeing the growing estrangement between the Catholic Church in America and…
Anglicanism
Tom Cruise will play the world’s oldest demon slayer in ‘Methuselah’. Tom Cruise is no stranger to action-packed movies that keep viewers on the edge of…
Catholicism
The Catholic Church will not ordain women priests, Pope Francis declared last week. Pope Francis, aboard the papal plane, stated in a press conference the issue…
Catholicism
The Catholic Church of England recognized the grief and pain it caused in the past by forcing unwed mothers to give up their babies for adoption.…
Agnosticism
If the ballot initiative passes, more religious groups will ask for permission to erect public monuments, including a Hindu Lord Hanuman statue. On November 8, as…
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Catholicism
Is it possible to die peacefully? The Catholic Church has always believed so. The Catholic Church has a tradition of viewing death as the beginning of…
Agnosticism
Peter Manseau is the first religion curator of the Smithsonian Institution since the 1890s. Religion and museums have always had a rough relationship. In the 1930s…
Catholicism
The Vatican has released a set of rules surrounding how cremated remains are to be stored. Until 1963, the Catholic Church had banned Catholics from getting…
Catholicism
Colombian mall hosts over 100 priests at ‘Confess-a-thon’ to connect with Catholic population. The Catholic Church is taking some radical steps in going out to the…
Anglicanism
One-in-Five Americans are from Interfaith families The number of Americans who are raised in interfaith households is on the rise according to new research. As of…