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Israel’s military must enlist the ultra-Orthodox. What will that mean for Netanyahu and the war?
Israel’s Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to begin drafted ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army.
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Public funds for religious charter school would be unconstitutional, Oklahoma high court says
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The prominent Belarusian human rights group Viasna has denounced an extension to the detention of a Roman Catholic priest who was jailed after displaying the Ukrainian flag in a social media post.
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Lawsuit challenges new Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
Civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s new law mandating that the Ten Commandments must be displayed in every public school classroom.
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Police ask Texas prosecutors to treat attempted drowning of 3-year-old child as a hate crime
Police say a Texas woman allegedly tried to drown a 3-year-old girl in a pool after making racist remarks toward the child’s mother.
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Lawsuit challenges new Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
Civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s new law mandating that the Ten Commandments must be displayed in every public school classroom.
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Philadelphia pastor elected to lead historic Black church in New York City
New York’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church has elected its new senior pastor, likely bringing an end to a national search to replace the late Rev. Calvin O.
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President Joe Biden ‘appalled’ by violence during pro-Palestinian protest at Los Angeles synagogue
President Joe Biden has denounced violence that flared when opponents of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza staged a protest at a Los Angeles synagogue during the weekend.
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Dagestan, in southern Russia, has a history of violence. Why does it keep happening?
Over the years, Russia’s southern republic of Dagestan, located in the North Caucasus region, has been beset by extremist violence.
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Supreme Court rejects challenge to Connecticut law that eliminated religious vaccination exemption
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state’s longstanding religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges and day care facilities.
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Not just a book: What is a Gutenberg Bible? And why is it relevant 500 years after its printing?
A Gutenberg Bible is not your ordinary book. The first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type by the mid-1450s gradually led to a massive multiplication of biblical texts, which eventually affected how parishioners related to religion.
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Philippine villagers smear mud on their bodies to show devotion to St. John the Baptist
BIBICLAT, Philippines (AP) — It is well before daybreak in Bibiclat, a village in the northern Philippines surrounded by rice fields.
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Russian region of Dagestan holds a day of mourning after attacks kill 20 people, officials say
Russia’s southern region of Dagestan is holding the first of three days of mourning following a rampage by Islamic militants who authorities say killed 20 people, most of them police, and attacked houses of worship in apparently coordinated assaults in two cities.
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Pakistani police charge 23 people with being part of a mob that murdered a blasphemy suspect
Police in Pakistan have arrested 23 people accused of being part of a mob that killed a man suspected of desecrating the Quran, Islam’s holy book.
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Heads of churches say Israeli government is demanding they pay property tax, upsetting status quo
The heads of major Christian denominations in Israel say that local governments across the country are demanding they pay property tax, violating a longstanding arrangement in a manner they say reflects growing intolerance for Christians in the Holy Land.
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Ceremony marks start of rebuilding for Pittsburgh synagogue targeted in antisemitic mass shooting
Second gentleman Douglas Emhoff and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro are among the dignitaries marking the groundbreaking of a new structure replacing the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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More than 1,300 people died during Hajj, many of them after walking in the scorching heat
More than 1,300 people died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage as the faithful faced soaring temperatures at Islamic holy sites in Saudi Arabia.
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It was meant to be a Christian utopia. Now this Nigerian community is helpless against rising seas
Buildings have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean, an increasingly common image along the vulnerable West African coast.
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Trump endorses Ten Commandments in schools, implores evangelical Christians to vote in November
Donald Trump has told a group of evangelicals that they “cannot afford to sit on the sidelines” of the 2024 election, imploring them at one point to “go and vote, Christians, please!”
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Pakistan police register a case against a mob that killed a man suspected of desecrating the Quran
Police in northwestern Pakistan have registered a case against hundreds of people who attacked a police station and killed a man being questioned there on suspicion of desecrating the Quran, Islam’s holy book.
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New Louisiana law requiring classrooms to display Ten Commandments churns old political conflicts
A bill signed into law this week makes Louisiana the only state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in public schools and colleges.
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The former nuncio to the US says he faces schism charges from the Vatican
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Peace must be a priority, say Catholic leaders on anniversary of priests’ violent deaths in Mexico
Two years have passed since a leader of one of Mexico’s organized crime gangs stormed into a Catholic church in the remote Tarahumara mountains and fatally shot two Jesuit priests.
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As France reels from alleged rape of a Jewish girl, antisemitism comes to fore in election campaign
The alleged rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a suspected antisemitic attack has sent shockwaves throughout France and thrust concerns about antisemitism to the forefront of campaigning for the country’s legislative elections.
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Defendant in Vatican trial takes case to UN, accuses pope of violating his rights with surveillance
One of the defendants in the Vatican’s big financial trial has formally complained to the United Nations about the trial.
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New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov.
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Jihadis from Africa’s Sahel have crossed into Nigeria’s north, a new report says. A lot is at stake
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On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil War
Darren Sands, now a reporter for The Associated Press, was researching his family history three years ago when he found a riveting missing piece.
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Hundreds died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia amid intense heat, officials say
Hundreds of people have died during this year’s Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced intense high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom.
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US lawmakers meet with Dalai Lama in India’s Dharamshala, sparking anger from China
A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation met with the Dalai Lama at his residence in India’s Dharamshala, sparking anger from China which views the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism as a dangerous separatist.
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Religious and cultural mentions removed from names of China’s Xinjiang villages, rights groups say
A report released by Human Rights Watch says authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist Party’s ideology.
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Texas megachurch pastor resigns after woman says he sexually abused her in the 1980s
The pastor of a Texas megachurch has resigned after a woman said he had sexually abused her on multiple occasions in the 1980s, beginning when she was 12.
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