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Religious Leaders Gather, Call for Firm Government Action Against Religious Intolerance
Indonesia Expat
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August 7, 2025
Indonesian religious leaders unite in Jakarta to condemn rising acts of intolerance and urge the government to uphold constitutional protections for freedom of worship. Leaders of Indonesian Religious Councils gathered at the Indonesian Bishops’...
Religious Hiring and Expressive Association
Reason Magazine
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August 7, 2025
Thanks to Eugene for inviting me to guest-blog about my forthcoming article, Religious Hiring Beyond the Ministerial Exception. My first post laid out how appellate courts are grappling with an important question that will likely reach the Supreme...
Catholic Children's Aid Jubilee journey connects youth to faith, heritage
The Catholic Register
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August 7, 2025
The Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto took its mission internationally this summer, offering youth in care opportunities to connect with their faith and heritage. As its youth-oriented Jubilee pilgrimage returned from Rome, a...
Church fire 'deliberate' as Kirk Moderator visits remains amid police probe
Daily Record & Sunday Mail
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August 7, 2025
The fire which tore apart a Church of Scotland building hailed as an iconic landmark is being treated as deliberate by police. The B-listed St Mungo's Church at St Mungo's Road in Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire, was deliberately torched by a firebug on...
Catholic Bishops Celebrate Overturning Biden Abortion Policy: “Abortion is Not Health Care”
LifeNews
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August 7, 2025
The president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the USCCB Committee on Pro-life Activities chairman this week praised a policy proposal to reinstate a long-standing Department of Veterans Affairs rule that ensured...
Church briefs for Aug. 8, 2025
The Herald - Pennsylvania
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August 7, 2025
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Religious schools fill gaps amid Afghanistan’s fractured education system
St. Kitts Gazette
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August 7, 2025
In Kabul’s narrow alleys and quiet courtyards, boys dressed in white caps and tunics diligently recite Quranic verses across an expanding network of madrassas – religious schools that increasingly bridge critical gaps in Afghanistan’s struggling...
Muslim feminist writer removes headscarf in protest of Diyanet sermon on women’s attire
Bianet
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August 7, 2025
Feminist writer Berrin Sönmez has removed her headscarf in protest against a recent Friday sermon by the Religious Affairs Directorate's (Diyanet) criticizing women's clothing as "dressed nudeness." The sermon, known as khutbah in Islam, outlined...
Church bell dedicated at ceremony
Star News Group - New Jersey
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August 7, 2025
AVON-BY-THE-SEA — The bell from the former Avon First Baptist Church, now housed outside borough hall on Main Street, was designated with two plaques on Monday morning by the Avon Historical Society. First installed in 1892, the church bell was...
Why Being Late to Church Matters
The Gospel Coalition
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August 7, 2025
I’ve been wrong about church changes before. Pastors without ties? I was against it. Praise songs instead of hymns? Hated the idea. Coffee in the sanctuary? Borderline heretical. Now, though, I can’t imagine going back to any of the “old ways” I...
BOOK ON CHURCH IS SERIOUSLY FLAWED
Catholic League - New York
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August 7, 2025
Bill Donohue This is a shortened version of an article that appears in the July/August edition of Catalyst, our journal that is available to members. Every now and then along comes a book on the Catholic Church that causes quite a stir. This is...
I Left Christianity For Islam Because It’s Best For Me – Sultana
Naija News
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August 7, 2025
Naija News reports that Sultana, who is 25 years old and works as a plus-size model, said she was raised in a home where both religions were present. She explained that her father is a Muslim from Adamawa State and her mother a Christian from Yala...
FBI: 70% of religion-based 'hate crimes' in the US in 2024 were directed against Jews
All Israel News
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest outside the Israeli consulate in New York against Israeli government policies they say are discriminatory against religious Jews, New York City, on July 20, 2021. Photo by Luke Tress/Flash90 New data released by the...
‘Love Your Neighbour’ church service
The Tribune (Bahamas)
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August 7, 2025
Church of God of Prophecy leader Bishop Woodley Thompson (left) provided the sermon at the ‘Love Your Neighbour’ church service which was attended by Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis and other government officials yesterday.
Trump’s new religious policies energize conservative Christians
MLive - Michigan
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August 7, 2025
By PETER SMITH Associated Press In his first half-year in office — amid his tariff campaign, government-slashing moves and immigration crackdown — President Donald Trump has also repeatedly delivered for conservative Christians, who form the...
The Jewish epitaph: We were more moral than our enemies
The Jewish World - New York
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August 7, 2025
Israeli soldiers up north near the border with Lebanon, July 10, 2025. Photo courtesy of Ayal Margolin/Flash90. By MITCHELL BARD One day, religious scholars may study the fate of the indigenous people of the Land of Israel and how, like the Native...
Men 'who filmed themselves targeting Orthodox Jews with water pistols' are arrested on suspicion of racist hate crime
Daily Mail
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August 7, 2025
Two suspected pranksters have been arrested after appearing to spray Orthodox Jews with water pistols in a cruel targeted prank. The men, aged 26 and 36, were taken into custody for questioning on suspicion of racially aggravated common assault on...
A Canadian Antisemitism Statistic Went Viral—But It Has No Source - The spread of a dubious antisemitism statistic reflects the anxieties of the Canadian Jewish establishment amid a changing political environment.
Jewish Currents
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August 6, 2025
At the end of April, Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism unveiled a new report on global antisemitism in the previous year. Overall, it painted a dire picture of Jewish life since October 7th, 2023, finding that...
China’s Buddhist regulator pledges stricter controls after Shaolin abbot scandal
South China Morning Post
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August 7, 2025
The Buddhist Association of China said in a lengthy statement on Thursday that it would “further deepen the comprehensive and strict governance of religion” after Shi Yongxin was placed under investigation for alleged financial and sexual...
Op-Ed | Jewish safety is a progressive value
AM New York Metro
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August 7, 2025
Photo credit: Getty Images Like many Jews, I had no idea my life was about to change when I woke up on October 7. The grief of that day was overwhelming. While the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organized celebratory protests in Times...