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News Articles: Religion

Mira Sorvino and Tim Ballard attend the premiere of <em>Sound of Freedom</em> on June 28 in Vineyard, Utah. Ballard is a former federal agent who went on to found the controversial anti-human trafficking organization depicted in the film.

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  • Politics

QAnon supporters are promoting 'Sound of Freedom.' Here's why

The movie is being criticized as a vehicle for conspiracy theories and misleading depictions of human trafficking — landing it in the middle of the country's politically polarized culture wars.

July 19, 2023
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Loh Siew Hong, in a pink shirt, arrives with her three children at Kuala Lumpur High Court for a hearing on May 11.

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  • World

In Malaysia, a mom is contesting her kids' conversion to Islam. It's a landmark case

The children were converted by their father after the parents divorced. The case has thrown into sharp relief the ethnic and religious identity markers that form the bedrock of Malaysian policy.

July 18, 2023
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  • Emily Feng
Dan Harris meditating.

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  • Religion

The former news anchor at the center of the mindfulness movement

As an anchor for ABC News, Dan Harris' career seemed pretty sorted out. Then his book about mindfulness took off.

July 16, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
In a special legislative session that lasted around 15 hours, Republican lawmakers passed a "fetal heartbeat" bill that would effectively ban abortion after six weeks on Tuesday, July 11. Hundreds of Iowans rallied at the Capitol in protest and support of the legislation, clashing often in the building's rotunda.

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  • Elections

Evangelical Christian voters in Iowa love Trump. Can another Republican win them over?

At the Family Leader summit in Des Moines, GOP presidential hopefuls will try to convince Iowa's influential evangelical voting bloc they have the conservative credentials to win the caucuses.

July 14, 2023
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By:
  • Clay Masters
Marlena Bhame sings during a "Worship Night" event at Liquid Church in Parsippany, N.J., in November.

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  • Religion

Megachurches are getting even bigger as churches close across the country

At a time when empty pews are forcing churches across the country to close, megachurches are largely bucking that trend — attracting younger, more vibrant and more diverse congregations.

July 14, 2023
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  • Scott Neuman
Ayyā Somā (left) and Bhante Suddhāso (right), the co-founders of Empty Cloud Monastery.

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  • Religion

These Buddhist monks want their faith to be known for more than just mindfulness

In a world full of mindfulness as a buzzword, what does life look like for those who follow the theology that birthed it?

July 10, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Pope Francis delivers the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday.

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  • Religion

Pope Francis names 21 new cardinals

Francis has now named nine batches of new cardinals in his 10-year papacy. Increasingly, the men who will vote for whoever succeeds Francis are churchmen supportive of his values.

July 09, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
This image from Mordechai Bernstein's "In the Labyrinth of Times" exhibit shows the Munich synagogue on the eve of its destruction in June 1938.

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  • Europe

Parts of a Munich synagogue demolished by Nazis are found in a river 85 years later

Munich's main synagogue was one of the first to be destroyed in Nazi Germany, under Hitler's orders. No one knew what had become of the rubble — until construction workers made a discovery last week.

July 06, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
Sarah Hurwitz grew up in what she would describe as a culturally Jewish home. But it wasn't until she reached her 30s that she really connected with the spiritual identity she was raised with.

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  • Religion

She found meaning where she least expected it — her childhood faith

Sarah Hurwitz grew up in what she would describe as a culturally Jewish home. But it wasn't until she was in her 30s that she really connected with the spiritual identity she was raised with.

July 02, 2023
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  • Rachel Martin
Supporters of President Donald Trump wearing attire associated with the Proud Boys attend a rally at Freedom Plaza, Dec. 12, 2020, in Washington. A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 million to a Black church in downtown Washington that sued the far-right Proud Boys for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a 2020 protest.

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  • National

Judge awards a Black church $1M over BLM banner burned by Proud Boys during protest

Two Black Lives Matter banners were pulled down from Metropolitan AME and another historically Black church in Washington and burned during clashes between pro-Trump backers and counterdemonstrators.

July 01, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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  • Law

Supreme Court rules in favor of web designer who refused work for same-sex weddings

The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from "forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees."

June 30, 2023
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  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Nina Totenberg
The setting sun illuminates the Supreme Court building in Washington on Jan. 10.

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  • Law

The Supreme Court rules against USPS in Sunday work case

The court ruled in favor of an evangelical Christian Postal Service carrier who refused to work on Sundays for religious reasons.

June 29, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Meghanlata Gupta
Activists protested what would be the country's largest lithium mine outside federal court in Pasadena, Calif., on Tuesday.

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  • Environment

Western tribes' last-ditch effort to stall a large lithium mine in Nevada

Western tribes are making a last ditch effort to thwart a large lithium mine in a federal appeals court.

June 29, 2023
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  • Kirk Siegler
<em>Michael</em> is Killer Mike's first solo album since 2012, after over a decade of focusing on his duo Run the Jewels.

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  • Music Features

Killer Mike at the top of the mountain

Faith and religion have been career-long themes for the Run the Jewels rapper — if often in a wary, ambivalent light. But on Michael, his first solo LP in over a decade, something has changed.

June 28, 2023
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  • Sheldon Pearce
Bud Light sales fell earlier this year after a promotion featuring a transgender social-media influencer led to boycott calls from conservative groups.

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  • Analysis

How the Bud Light boycott shows brands at a crossroads: Use their voice, or shut up?

Large companies have played the role of activists and been one of the biggest countervailing forces against social and religious conservatives on LGBTQ measures. All that is at stake now.

June 28, 2023
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  • Pallavi Gogoi
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