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Palestinians Hold Mass Funeral for 112 Bodies Finally Recovered From a 2023 Gaza Strike
[ad_1] DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza City (AP) — Palestinians gathered on Tuesday for a mass funeral of more than 100 bodies finally recovered from a…
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US strikes Iran’s Revolutionary Guard over attack that killed troops in Jordan
[ad_1] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military launched airstrikes Sunday targeting Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard to retaliate for the killing of American…
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US Says It Has Ended Strikes on Iran After Hitting Some 90 Targets
[ad_1] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military said Thursday it had ended its latest round of airstrikes targeting Iran after hitting…
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Can J. D. Vance Serve Both God and Donald Trump?
[ad_1] The through line of the book is a conversion narrative: Vance tells a story of his abandonment of his maternal grandmother’s Christian faith…
Boston, Massachusetts Local News
SJC strikes rent control from ballot
[ad_1] BOSTON — The state’s highest court has blocked a proposal to bring rent control back to Massachusetts after ruling it would violate religious…
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Texas school board to vote on required Bible readings in public education
[ad_1] AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas education board will vote Friday on a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students…
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San Francisco Giants Pride Night controversy prompts Trump administration investigation of MLB
[ad_1] The fallout over the opposition by a handful of San Francisco Giants players against the team’s Pride Night celebrations has prompted an investigation…
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The Right-Wing Nonprofit Serving A.I. Slop for America’s Birthday
[ad_1] PragerU is also supplying the multimedia content for the Freedom Truck Mobile Museums, a travelling exhibition of touch-screen displays, Revolutionary War artifacts, and…
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New Orleans closes out Mardi Gras with color and style in photos
[ad_1] NEW ORLEANS, La. — New Orleans celebrates with revelry and parades as the city bids farewell to the Mardi Gras season. Carnival events…
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Belgium summons U.S. ambassador over tweet accusing kingdom of antisemitism
[ad_1] BRUSSELS — Belgium summoned the U.S. ambassador on Tuesday over a social media post where he accused the country of antisemitic prosecution of…
Los Angeles, California Local News
As Lenten season approaches, US Catholics straddle faith, advocacy, politics
[ad_1] On Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, Southern California Catholics, and Christians of multitude denominations, will wait in line to get a smudge of ashes…
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Protesters in Multiple States Press Target to Oppose the Immigration Crackdown in Minnesota
[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) — Activists planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores around the United States on Wednesday to pressure the…
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The New Archbishop of New York Rounds Out the Pope’s Team U.S.A.
[ad_1] The cardinals’ statement was striking for several reasons. Atypically, it showed U.S. prelates weighing in on foreign affairs. (McElroy is an expert; he…
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A Theology of Immigration
[ad_1] When I was working with refugees in Lebanon and Turkey and the Iraqi crisis, Rwanda, other places—you know, when everything’s taken away from…
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Towns once run by polygamous sect emerge from court supervision transformed
[ad_1] COLORADO CITY, Ariz. — The prairie dresses, walled compounds and distrust of outsiders that were once hallmarks of two towns on the Arizona-Utah…
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Car Rams Into Chabad Headquarters in New York City, Damaging Doors
[ad_1] NEW YORK (AP) — A car crashed into the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in New York City on Wednesday night, damaging some of…
Charlotte, North Carolina Local News
Buddhist monks, supporters battle freezing temperatures after winter storm
[ad_1] LOUISBURG, N.C. — The Buddhist monks aren’t slowing down despite the winter weather. For the past week the group journeyed across North Carolina on…
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Why an Agnostic Animal-Rights Activist Went to Seminary
[ad_1] I can’t say my affiliation with Christianity was very strong, but I did develop a positive association with the idea of moral community—the…
Minneapolis, Minnesota Local News
Multi-faith service draws hundreds in Minneapolis to show support for immigrant communities
[ad_1] On Friday morning, hundreds of Minnesotans across faiths gathered together united by prayer at Temple Israel in Minneapolis. They had a message…
Minneapolis, Minnesota Local News
Faith leaders says
[ad_1] Faith leaders will hold a news conference Tuesday in the Twin Cities to announce the participation of “hundreds of Minnesota places of worship”…