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Pope Leo XIV isn't the first pontiff to stare down a world leader. From a medieval emperor standing barefoot in the snow to Napole
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President Trump is facing fallout from prominent Christian conservatives after posting an image on social media depicting him as J
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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee sparked controversy with his recent comments about Israel's right to land in the Middle Ea
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In Idaho, some parents can rely on prayer instead of medicine without automatically being deemed neglectful. After preventable child deaths, critics are asking where religious freedom should end.
Researchers are drilling a boat-shaped formation in Turkey that some believe is Noah’s Ark. But even creationists disagree over the site, and millions have been spent trying to prove
Anthropic has turned to religious thinkers for help shaping Claude’s moral character. Inside its “Soul Doc” experiment, an old question has returned in a new form: Who gets to decide what good means?
Meryl Streep is voicing Aslan, C.S. Lewis’s Christ figure, and some Christians are crying blasphemy. But if God is beyond biological sex, why does a woman’s voice suddenly feel like a line too far?
A Muslim teenager asks Texas why a student should have to defend her faith in history class. A Baptist pastor warns that privileging one religion puts all at risk. Inside the state's curriculum rewrite.
Humanity has constructed many monuments to observe the sun's annual transit through the sky. The Autumn Equinox is a time to observe this change, though different faiths and cultures celebrate in their own ways.
In 2007, 14-year-old Dennis Lindberg died after refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds. Now Jehovah’s Witnesses have changed the rule. What does a faith owe those who lived by the old one?
From Ugandan rainmakers to American prayer services and cloud seeding in Utah, communities are still trying to influence the weather as climate change makes familiar patterns far less reliable.
After a Christian pastor condemned the Arapaho Sundance, tribal leaders told her church to leave. Their standoff tests religious freedom, tribal sovereignty and the legacy of forced Christian assimilation.
Thousands of religious minorities followed America’s legal refugee process: they found sponsors, passed background checks, and waited. Then the path closed. What happens to those left behind?
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