A 4-month-old baby girl is tended by her grandmother inside a church in Duekoue, Ivory Coast, in 2011.
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The fundamental issue at stake in abortion debates is personhood, which is viewed differently around the world, an anthropologist writes.
Many critique Disney adults as being victims of exploitation because Disney merchandise and trips to the parks come at a steep price.
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People are increasingly identifying less with religious tradition and are looking for meaning and identity in the things they love most.
A mural in Kyiv depicts the Virgin Mary cradling a U.S.-made anti-tank weapon, a Javelin, which is considered a symbol of Ukraine’s defense against Russia.
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Many religions have been used to prop up nationalism, and Catholicism is no exception, as a Jesuit priest and scholar explains.
Proponents claim the stones can promote health and well-being.
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Crystals are part of a larger tradition of metaphysical religions that have a long history in the U.S.
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Purity culture is based in sexual abstinence until marriage.
Pauli Murray: priest, activist, lawyer and more.
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Pauli Murray, the first Black woman to be ordained by the Episcopal Church, was an advocate for women’s rights and racial justice.
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Christian support for legislation prohibiting abortion is a cultural and political stance. It has nothing to do with the Bible.
Most African countries have tough anti-gay laws.
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Being gay in Africa can pose culturally specific challenges which the dominant, heterosexual culture may find difficult to accept.
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In a country where Christians are a minority, understanding how religious groups use traditional arts and music to convey their faith and identity is important to preserve their cultural legacy.
‘The Holy Family,’ by the 17th-century Spanish painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo.
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The Catholic Church considers St. Joseph a role model of fatherhood and faith. In many countries, Father’s Day is celebrated on his feast day.
Demonstrators stand outside the Supreme Court in 2014.
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Views on abortion differ not only among major religious traditions, but within each one.
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Just as Christians in the 1800s were persecuted for embracing foreign teachings, today the regime in power vilifies civil society and opposition political parties as foreign agents.
And what Adventists can teach us about living greener, longer lives.
Protestant Christians have been debating – and more often than not, supporting – modern contraceptives since they first appeared.
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Conservative Christians have cheered restrictions on some birth control. But many decades ago, Christian leaders’ support helped contraceptives become acceptable in the first place.
A replica of Noah’s Ark at the Ark Encounter theme park in Williamstown, Ky.
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Two scholars of fundamentalism and creationism explain what they found when they visited the Ark Encounter, an evangelical theme park in Kentucky,
The temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints along the Capital Beltway in Kensington, Md.
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Temples are often open to the public for a period after construction or renovation, but only church members may enter once religious ceremonies begin.
Nuns from a group of Dalit Christians, or India’s lowest caste who converted to Christianity, protest in New Delhi.
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Several US universities now recognize caste as part of nondiscrimination policies. Two scholars of South Asian studies explain how caste-based violence isn’t limited to Hinduism, or to India.
The harmful belief that Christianity ‘replaced’ Judaism is partly rooted in the erroneous view that
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Easter and Passover begin on the same weekend this year. This is an opportunity to revisit misconceptions about Jesus’s ministry and to address anti-Jewish uses of Christian scripture.
The musical ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ has always had ardent fans and fierce critics.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s famous musical has long inspired controversy for how it depicts the story of Jesus of Nazareth.
A Ukrainian service member takes a photograph of a damaged church after shelling in a residential district in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 10, 2022.
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Religion plays an important role in expansive views of Russian nationhood. But faith has played a role in Ukrainian nationalism, too.