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The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that a Catholic benevolent ministry qualifies for a tax exemption granted to churches.
All many journalists want to talk about is “the guys.” That focus on young males swimming the Bosphorus has created plenty of mainstream news reports. This week’s “Crossroads” podcast focused on a BBC ...
A “Jesus Village” for children in crisis 50 miles west of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, will span about 15 acres and house 240 orphans in 12 houses. Cambodia Christian Ministries has already ...
Déjà vu is a common occurrence in sports and the Edmonton Oilers are no strangers to repeat matchups. The team faced off against the New York Islanders in both 1983 and ’84 for hockey’s biggest prize.
Just one of the NBA’s 30 franchises tips off each game with an invocation: the Oklahoma City Thunder. It’s a tradition that dates back to the Seattle SuperSonics’ move to OKC in 2008 — and even before ...
When thinking about the number of people attending their church each week, the experience of the average pastor is vastly different from that of the average churchgoer. The most recent Faith ...
A 22-year-old student has been charged with allegedly offending religious sentiments after making derogatory remarks about Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. Whatever the merits of the case, the incident ...
The Ritual” is a movie you’ve seen many times before. But the story is clearly powerful enough that it is worth retelling.
Your view of the health of American Christian congregations and of their clergy may very much depends on the angle taken: Up ...
The Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan has long experienced significant constraints on its religious practices. From not being allowed to call their places of worship “mosques” or use Islamic terms such ...
I’ve written about this before, but it’s worth repeating here: Whenever I tweet a graph that contains a couple of the largest ...
Berlin faces growing intolerance of immigrants and their religions, especially Muslim Arabs from countries like Turkey and Syria. right-wing extremist political parties like the Alternative for ...