Any educational efforts are OK, as long as they don’t back a political party, specific candidates or particular pieces of legislation.
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Two scholars of nonprofits explain what is and isn’t permissible.
Firefighters work to put out a blaze at St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto’s west end on June 9, 2024.
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A fire that destroyed St. Anne’s Church in Toronto serves as a reminder that cultural legacy needs to be conserved and protected from disaster.
People gather out front of the burnt-out St. Anne’s Anglican Church during an evening vigil to mourn the loss of the church following a Sunday morning fire, June 11, 2024.
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The building was celebrated for murals by Group of Seven artists and designated a National Historic Site, yet has struggled to pay to renovate its leaking roof.
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Some churches operate huge business enterprises and collect rent on extensive property holdings. This income isn’t taxed.
A stained-glass window that was part of a church shows a dark-skinned Jesus, which was unusual at the time.
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A stained-glass window, which shows Jesus as a Black man for the first time, tells a story not only of race but of gender, class and ethnicity.
The ruins of a church in Bohorodychne, Donetsk district, Ukraine, on Jan. 27, 2024.
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In addition to destroyed buildings, there’s an entire underground world – filled with untold numbers of artifacts, bones and ruins – that are exposed and damaged by the digging of trenches.
A crowd gathers around the organ at St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany, to witness an October 2013 note change.
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The new note will be sustained for a relatively ‘brief’ two years.
Who did the honors: clergy, a justice of the peace or just a friend? More and more weddings are performed by someone ordained online.
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A professor who has researched the Universal Life Church unpacks why many couples now prefer to hand-pick loved ones to perform their ceremonies.
The alleged sexual abuse that led to this settlement occurred from 1944 through 2016.
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This is a green light for creating the largest-ever compensation fund for sex abuse claims.
A man chooses a palm cross to buy on Palm Sunday near a church in Caracas, Venezuela, in 2022.
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Donkeys and palm leaves are both associated with Christianity’s Palm Sunday – but their symbolism couldn’t be more different.
The entrance at the headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Germany.
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Several members were killed March 9, 2023, in Germany. Many people hold stereotypes about Jehovah’s Witnesses but are unfamiliar with their beliefs.
Members of the British royal family follow behind the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II as it is carried out of Westminster Abbey after her state funeral.
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A scholar of British history explains how the ornate church and its significance to the monarchy have changed over centuries.
German Bishop Georg Bätzing talks with members of various Catholic youth organizations holding up umbrellas reading “Consecration for All” and “Jesus had two fathers.”
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The Catholic Church’s membership numbers are growing fastest outside Europe and the Americas, and Catholics’ priorities look very different across the world.
Christians hold signs as they march on the streets of Abuja in March 2020.
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Incidents of terror attack on churches in Nigeria don’t happen in a vacuum. They are driven by jihadism, pastoral conflicts and related criminality.
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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.
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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.
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.
The UNESCO-recognized Pechersk-Lavra monastic complex dating from the 11th century comprises multiple monastic buildings and bell towers, and its 600-metre network of catacombs contains chapels, relics and tombs of the monks.
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Lviv is an important Renaissance and baroque urban centre in Eastern Europe, and its two remaining synagogues survived mass destruction in the Second World War.
Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, center, attends a ceremony consecrating the Cathedral of Russian Armed Forces outside Moscow.
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To understand Russia’s war in Ukraine, look to the blend of religious and militaristic nationalism under Putin – on full display in the Church of the Russian Armed Forces.
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It is not uncommon for people to believe that the cause of their illnesses is a result of curses or punishment from a deity or witchcraft.