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A rabbi on being a symbol. A son on the role of a strong faith. A nephew on how mourning is elongated — in a good way.

Twice as many Americans say the virus hasn't changed their faith and another quarter say they're not religious

The report praises Uzbekistan and Sudan for improvements and says India allowed "campaigns of harassment and violence."


Many small houses of worship are surviving week to week

The region's mosques prepare for a holiday in isolation.

Video of the alleged incident shows the bus stopping just short of where a protester was standing.

Critics questioned why the country — where a third of the population lives in extreme poverty — is giving away medical supplies during a pandemic.

Church of God in Christ is clustered in states hit hard by virus -- Michigan, Mississippi, New York

Even though a small number of churches did meet on Easter, Americans’ attendance at Sunday religious services began dropping dramatically in March, according to a Washington Post analysis of mobile location data.

Prosecutors say he lit a Christian religious pamphlet on fire and put it in the nozzle of a gasoline can to act as a fuse.

Mohler said in 2016 that "public arguments that offer cover for Donald Trump are now not only implausible but excruciating.”

Bishop Gerald Glenn encouraged parishioners not to be afraid and to come to church.

President Trump wants to peel away social conservatives from the Democratic party, including black and Latino evangelicals.

The church is trying to help a local hospital in an economically depressed area of West Virginia that has struggled with the opioid epidemic.

Easter was supposed to be his first day back.

Courts have become more permissive of government funding of religion

Death is ever present in church sermons in the days and weeks that lead up to Easter, but the coronavirus has caused many to think about their own mortality.

The only sitting congressman to declare himself a non-theist is at the helm of a 12-member congressional caucus working to advance secular priorities on a wide range of issues.

The church is expected to be capable of holding at least 200 patients.

Passover looks different this year than it ever has before, for Jews all over the world. For the Geisler family, the pandemic keeping them isolated from each other is also inspiring them to go to new lengths to achieve some sort of togetherness.

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Prosecutors have charged a 42-year-old man accused of setting fire to a Missouri mosque last week with a hate crime and other counts

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The Vatican has formally closed its latest investigation into the 1983 disappearance of an employee’s 15-year-old daughter

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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is urging that the State Department add India to its list of nations with uniquely poor records on protecting freedom to worship — while proposing to remove Sudan and Uzbekistan from that list

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A New Jersey man linked to a neo-Nazi group called The Base has been freed from jail several months after his arrest on federal charges that he coordinated a plot to vandalize synagogues with anti-Semitic graffiti

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