While a religiously tolerant Europe slowly slips away from religious belief and observance, the government of China treats religion not as recognition of mankind’s spiritual nature, but as a threat to society,...
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Hindu Festival of Lights Celebrated in White House Ceremony President Trump hosted a celebration of the Hindu Festival of Lights or Diwali in the White House, and tweeted a video of him lighting an oil lamp,...
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21 Oct 2019
WRN Editorial Staff
Hasidic Jews Find New “Shtetl Market” Shtetl – small Eastern European Jewish villages before the Holocaust – had busy local markets, which Hasidic Jews are recreating on Amazon, becoming buyers...
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18 Oct 2019 Alethea Bloomwood
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 17, 2019 /Christian Newswire/ -- Many of California's school districts are currently deceiving parents about their rights under the law. Contrary to what school districts...
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International Religious Freedom Roundtable October 11, 2019 The Honorable Donald Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Re: Do Not Abandon the People of Northeast...
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Democratic Candidates Vow to Reverse Religious Protections Presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren announced similar plans to enhance LGBTQ protections including reversing the Trump...
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Idi Amin “The Butcher of Uganda” seized power in 1971 and until he was ousted in 1979, his regime murdered an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 political dissidents and members of various ethnic groups....
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WASHINGTON - The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, today announced an expanded cohort of eleven scholars who are joining PRRI’s Public Fellows...
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Flying in to Grand Bahama Island with his jet loaded with emergency supplies and a team of Scientology Volunteer Ministers, John Travolta is the latest celebrity to draw attention to the desperate straights...
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In Columbia, South Carolina, Interfaith Partners regularly brings together for discussion Christians and Jews, Hindus and Muslims, Buddhists and Bahá’ís. Members visit one another’s places of worship,...
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Is Spirituality the Fountain of Youth? by T. RIGGS ECKELBERRY
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Remembering a Better World By Blair Thomas
You Don’t Have to be a Supreme Court Justice to See a Thumb on the Scales By Charles Franklin