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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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A viral video showed Coca-Cola's can customizer rejecting "Jesus is Lord" while approving phrases naming other dieties. The backlash is loud, but this isn't the first time, and the full story is stranger than it looks.
Florida can now enforce its ban on kids at drag shows after a divided federal ruling. Behind the case: performers losing income, a scathing dissent, and a community bracing for what comes next.
A controversial book claimed the Church once blessed same-sex unions. The ceremony, the couples behind it, and the evidence for historical same-sex marriage beyond one book are stranger and older than most people expect.
A decade after buying the land, a Tulsa-area mosque still isn't built. A federal lawsuit and a pile of leaked emails are now asking Broken Arrow, Oklahoma to explain exactly why it said no to the project.
A Sikh mother, a secular mother, and a mother raising her kids across four traditions are suing Texas together. Their argument: a state-mandated Bible verse on the classroom wall is not neutral for anyone.
A Florida evangelist preached through a flight delay, called her removal an act of spiritual warfare, and got banned from three airlines. Now a wider debate is taking off: sharing faith, or cornering strangers?
Alvin Christian's food bank fed 800 families a day in West Virginia. Now the freezers sit empty, because he refused food supplies tied to LGBTQ groups. What does that decision cost, and who pays it?
"We do not know what a Jew is," a French pastor told police in 1943. "We only know men." That instinct has a much longer, stranger history than any single headline about immigration this week as the crackdown continues.
A bestselling Christian author just gave up her belief in hell and called it liberating. Here's where the idea of hell actually comes from in scripture, and what Pope Francis meant by hoping it's empty.
Airsoft rifles. A crowd of children chanting "take him out." A Kentucky church's skit went viral, and theologians say its violence has scripture-deep roots, on more than one continent.
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