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Catholicism
The high-ranking church official served as one of the Pope’s closest advisers; Vatican receives the news with ‘regret’ One of the senior Vatican officials and trusted…
Issues
Nobody yet chosen to head the department; may be dismantled on July 1 Critics are coming down heavily on Trump for not filling the role of…
Issues
Facebook moves forward on hate speech crackdown; hires 3,000 In a current series termed as Hard Questions, Facebook staff and management have been explaining to the…
Religion News
UK adoption agency denies Sikh couple. A Sikh couple living in the UK have reported to the press that they were turned away from a local…
Catholicism
Support for gay marriage has reached an all-time high; support for gay marriage increased among Republicans, Catholics, and Evangelicals. Support for gay rights in the U.S.…
Christianity
The Satanic Temple is dropping charges, but vows to resume the lawsuit if the monument is installed again. On June 28, a monument depicting the Ten…
Religion News
Election of Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray comes after the resignation of ex-president amidst diversity issues. The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) elected its first woman president in Rev.…
Christianity
Savannah hopes that her coming out will help closeted church members. Savannah Ward, a 12-year-old from Utah, took the stand in her Mormon Church's Fast and…
Issues
Mixed-gender prayer scrapped at Western Wall In a move that has angered both Conservative and Reform Jewish groups, the Israeli government suspended plans to create a…
Islam
Islam in China has a long tradition of women-only mosques. Traveling, writing, and filming for the last 35 years between the Mediterranean and the Yellow Sea,…
Agnosticism
Islam, Hinduism increasing; number of religious nones higher than Catholics Australia is quickly turning less and less Christian and more Atheist each year.[/tweetit] The number of…
Christianity
Two Justices dissented from this judgment The United States Supreme Court in its ruling on June 26 stated that school playground grants funded by the U.S.…