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Spotty data and media bias delay justice for missing and murdered Indigenous...
Native Americans are more than twice as likely to be victims of violent crime than the U.S. population as a whole.Michael Siluk/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesNo one knows just how many...
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Prayer apps are flooding the market, but how well do they work?
Prayer apps can help guide spiritual practices and encourage people to set goals and stay on track.MangoStar_Studio/iStock via Getty Images Hallow, a Catholic prayer and meditation app that claims over...
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Money, schools and religion: A controversial combo returns to the Supreme Court
Carson v. Makin comes on the heels of other SCOTUS cases about aid to students in religious schools.franckreporter/E+ via Getty ImagesSince 1947, one topic in education has regularly come up at the...
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Who's in? Who's out? The ethics of COVID-19 travel rules
People wait at O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa on Nov. 26, 2021, as many nations moved to stop air travel from the country. AP Photo/Jerome DelayOmicron, the latest...
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This Hanukkah, learn about the holiday's forgotten heroes: Women
A Jewish woman lights a candle for the festival of Hanukkah at the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem.Marco Longari/AFP via Getty ImagesThe eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’...
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Biden brings a menorah lighting back to the White House, rededicating a...
The lighting of the National Menorah in Washington, D.C. in 2012.AP Photo/Jacquelyn MartinPresident Joe Biden’s staff has dispatched invitations to a “Menorah Lighting to be held at the White House” on...
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How Christmas became an American holiday tradition, with a Santa Claus, gifts...
The pagan tradition of celebrating the winter solstice with bonfires on Dec. 21 inspired the early Christian celebrations of Christmas.Gpointstudio/ Image Source via Getty ImagesEach season, the...
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Nuns against nuclear weapons – Plowshares protesters have fought for...
Sister Megan Rice answers questions from members of a church group at a home in Maryville, Tennessee, in 2013.Linda Davidson / The Washington Post via Getty ImagesIn July 2012 Sister Megan Rice, an...
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Women lead religious groups in many ways – besides the growing number who...
Rabbi Diana Villa, center, with colleagues at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, in Jerusalem, in 2013.AP Photo/Sebastian ScheinerWhat constitutes women’s leadership in religious communities is...
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Buddhist nuns and female scholars are gaining new leadership roles, in a...
Nuns from Taiwan pray in Taipei on May 8, 2011, in celebration of the Buddha's birth anniversary. Patrick Lin/AFP via Getty ImagesIn recent years, many Buddhist nuns have taken on leadership roles that...
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Understanding the history and politics behind Pakistan's blasphemy laws
Members of a civil society group participate in a candlelight vigil to pay tribute to the Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara, who was lynched by a Muslim mob in Pakistan.AP Photo/K.M. ChaudaryA Sri...
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Here's how Southern Baptist women found ways to lead outside the denomination
Theologian Molly Marshall preaching at the Southern Baptist Women in Ministry meeting, June 9, 1985.Baptist Women in Ministry, CC BYSouthern Baptists have a long history of conflict over women’s...
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In polygamous communities, deep roots of distrust shape vaccine hesitancy
A group of protesters stands inside the Utah State Capitol in 2016, criticizing a proposal to make polygamy a felony again.Rick Bowmer/APFrom the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Church of Jesus...
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'Strangers in their own land': Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on...
Tens of thousands of members of Iraq's Yazidi religious minority are now living in shelters and camps.AP Photo/Seivan SalimEach year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious...
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What partnership looks like in Mormon marriages is shifting – slowly
What should a marriage look like? Religious leaders' ideas have shifted for centuries.davidf/E+ via Getty ImagesDiscussions about women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as...
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Orthodox Jewish women's leadership is growing – and it's not all about rabbis
Opportunities are expanding for Orthodox Jewish women to formally study Jewish texts. This event in Jerusalem celebrated women who completed the 7 1/2-year cycle of daily study of the Talmud.AP...
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Mourning after mass shootings isn't enough – a sociologist argues that...
People attend a vigil for the victims of a school shooting that occurred in Oxford, Michigan, on Nov. 30, 2021. AP Photo/Paul SancyaToday, Dec. 14, marks the anniversary of the tragic loss of children...
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To tree, or not to tree? How Jewish-Christian families navigate the 'December...
Lots of families wrestle with how – and whether – to celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas.Brianna Soukup/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty ImagesTraditionally, for Christian-Jewish families –...
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'Twas the night before Christmas' helped make the modern Santa – and led to a...
If you picture Santa Claus as plump and jolly and pulled by reindeer, you may have this poem to thank.Clement Clark Moore/New-York Historical SocietyThe poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known...
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A Persian festival, Yalda, celebrates the triumph of light over darkness,...
A table set for the celebration of the Persian festival of Yalda. Jasmin Merdan/Moment via Getty images.As the days become shorter and the nights become longer and darker, we are reminded that indeed...
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