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Is Iran the Eternal Enemy of the West? By L. Arik Greenberg, Ph.D.

14 Feb 2020
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WRN Guest

I grew up in the 1970s, when the U.S. first had overtly negative dealings with Iran. In 1953, we had helped to topple the democratically elected Mosaddegh administration, installing a puppet government...

Religious News from Around the Web, Feb 3rd 2020

03 Feb 2020
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WRN Editorial Staff

Iran vs. Religion, Mass Wedding, Same-Sex Adoption, Religious School Funding, Christians Released, Should Churches Report Child Abuse? William Barr Warns of Militant Secularism, Catholic Schools in Trouble 80...

The Centuries-Old Parsi Cafes Are Disappearing in India

09 Jun 2019
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Alison Lesley

Zoroastrian cafes becoming a thing of the past In one of Mumbai's last Parsi cafes (Britannia & Co.) which is almost clocking 100 years, the brown walls are peeling at all ends, and giant chips cake...

We Might Be Destroying This Religious Practice

08 Sep 2017
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Derek Welch

Extinction, Vultures, Poisoning, and Dead Bodies. The problem is with the birds. Namely, vultures. We generally do not think of rotting corpses as sacred. Practitioners of Zoroastrianism have a religious...

Morgan Freeman Explains How Christianity, Judaism and Islam All Started

16 Jan 2017
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Elisa Meyer

Morgan Freeman tells the origins of three major world religions in the second season of The Story of God National Geographic, known for its matter-of-fact scientific shows now has a different type...

17 May 2016
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Gary Nguyen

Yazidi Christians call for international recognition of acts against Yazidis be declared genocide. The Yazidis are a Kurdish religious community recognized by the United Nations as a distinct ethnic...

What Do You Know About the Oldest Monotheistic Religion?

21 Dec 2015
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Nathan Glover

Today, Zoroastrians, the oldest monotheistic religion, celebrate Winter Solstice. Mazdaism, or has it is more commonly known, Zoroastrianism, is considered to be one of the oldest monotheistic religions...