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News Articles: Religion

In August, President Biden met with Israel's then-Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. This will be Biden's first trip to Israel as president, but he has been there many times during his political career.

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  • Middle East

Biden is building on the Abraham Accords, part of Trump's legacy in the Middle East

Joe Biden has jettisoned most of his predecessor's foreign policy. But not the Abraham Accords. Those agreements between Israel and its neighbors are in the spotlight as Biden heads to the Mideast.

July 09, 2022
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  • Asma Khalid
President Joe Biden speaks before presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, during a ceremony honoring 17 recipients in the East Room of the White House on Thursday.

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  • Politics

Biden awards Medal of Freedom to Denzel Washington, Simone Biles, John McCain

The 17 recipients include athletes, artists, and leaders of the civil rights and labor movements.

July 07, 2022
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  • Barbara Sprunt
Law enforcement officials walk around the damaged Georgia Guidestones monument near Elberton, Ga., on Wednesday.

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  • National

A Georgia monument, seen by some as satanic, was damaged from a predawn explosion

The roadside attraction was built in 1980 from local granite, commissioned by an unknown person or group under the pseudonym R.C. Christian.

July 06, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Ralph Reed prays on stage during a Donald Trump campaign event courting devout conservatives by combining praise, prayer and patriotism, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Alpharetta, Ga.

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  • Politics

This conservative leader is trying to make white evangelical politics less white

Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed, an activist in GOP politics for three decades, is working to turn out and expand the evangelical vote in 2022.

July 05, 2022
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  • Susan Davis
Republican Reps. Mary Miller of Illinois, left, and Lauren Boebert of Colorado appear at a Save America rally with former President Donald Trump at the Adams County Fairgrounds on June 25, 2022, in Mendon, Ill.

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  • Politics

The Christian Right is winning cultural battles while public opinion disagrees

The Christian Right's wins in the Supreme Court on abortion and prayer in school come at a time when a growing majority of Americans are strongly opposed to its views.

July 01, 2022
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  • Ashley Lopez
Republican Reps. Mary Miller of Illinois, left, and Lauren Boebert of Colorado appear at a Save America rally with former President Donald Trump at the Adams County Fairgrounds on June 25, 2022, in Mendon, Ill.

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  • Politics

The Christian Right is winning cultural battles while public opinion disagrees

The Christian Right's wins in the Supreme Court on abortion and prayer in school come at a time when a growing majority of Americans are strongly opposed to its views.

July 01, 2022
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  • Ashley Lopez
Pope Francis greets Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her husband, Paul, on Wednesday before celebrating a Mass on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Pelosi received Communion during the papal Mass, witnesses said, despite her position in support of abortion rights.

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  • Religion

Pelosi receives Communion in the Vatican, despite her home archbishop refusing it

The head of the church in San Francisco has said the House Speaker can't receive the sacrament there because of her abortion rights support, but Pope Francis has avoided politicizing the Eucharist.

June 29, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The parties included this image, of Coach Kennedy praying with a crowd after the homecoming game, in their joint appendix submitted to the Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court backs a high school coach's right to pray on the 50-yard line

The 6-to-3 decision is the latest example of the court's conservative supermajority requiring more accommodation for religion in public schools and less separation between church and state.

June 27, 2022
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  • Nina Totenberg
A protester carries a sign as they attend the "Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice" rally at Union Square near the U.S. Capitol on May 17.

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  • Religion

Some Jewish groups blast the end of Roe as a violation of their religious beliefs

According to the Women's Rabbinic Network, some of the religion's most sacred texts — the Torah, the Mishnah and the Talmud — view a fetus as a soul only once it's born.

June 26, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
A protester carries a sign as they attend the "Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice" rally at Union Square near the U.S. Capitol on May 17.

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  • Religion

Some Jewish groups blast the end of Roe as a violation of their religious beliefs

According to the Women's Rabbinic Network, some of the religion's most sacred texts — the Torah, the Mishnah and the Talmud — view a fetus as a soul only once it's born.

June 26, 2022
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  • Joe Hernandez
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, seen here in 2020, recently signed the state's Medical Ethics and Diversity Act into law. It lets medical practitioners refuse nonemergency care that conflicts with their religious, moral or ethical beliefs, such as family planning or end-of-life care. Critics say the law permits discrimination, especially against LGBTQ people.

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  • Health

S.C. law lets health care providers refuse nonemergency care based on beliefs

Under the law, practitioners can refuse care, such as family planning, that conflicts with their religious or moral beliefs. Critics say the law allows discrimination, especially against LGBTQ people.

June 22, 2022
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  • Victoria Hansen
Parts of Balsora Baptist Church dated back roughly 100 years before a fire destroyed the North Texas church on Friday.

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  • National

A lone cross was left standing after a Texas church burned to the ground

A lone cross inside Balsora Baptist Church was seen standing after the church burned down Friday.

June 20, 2022
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By:
  • Fernando Alfonso III
A burkini (right) and a culotte swimmer (center) are on display in the Cherchez la Femme (Look for the Woman) exhibition in the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, on March 30, 2017.

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  • World

A French city approved burkinis in its pools. Then the backlash came

The city of Grenoble's move to allow the full body-covering swimsuit for Islamic women has sparked a legal battle. Activists say it's a matter of civil — and women's — rights.

June 19, 2022
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
Emancipation Day celebration, June 19, 1900, in Austin, Texas.

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  • Religion

Juneteenth is a jubilant celebration — and a sacred lament

On Sunday, churchgoers will celebrate Juneteenth during their worship services. Members of the clergy reflect on the role of the church and the holiday marking the notification of the end of slavery.

June 19, 2022
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  • Tekella Foster
Iman Vellani headlines <em>Ms. Marvel</em>, based on Marvel's first Muslim superhero to headline her own comic.

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  • Opinion

'Ms. Marvel' treats being Muslim as ordinary — and that makes it extraordinary

Disney's Ms. Marvel has upended all the stereotypes about being Muslim or a South Asian.

June 17, 2022
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  • Anika Steffen
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