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The Vatican Just Banned Scattering Ashes
A new doctrinal rule requires Roman Catholics to store cremains at cemeteries. By Erin Blakemore.
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Jury acquits [Y’alliban] leaders of Malheur wildlife refuge standoff
Standoff leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five others were charged with conspiring to impede federal workers from their jobs at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. By Hal Bernton.
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Innocents
Where pregnant women have more to fear than Zika. By Rachel Nolan.
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Why ethnic Chinese leader in Indonesia is sitting on a tinder box of religion and politics
Jakarta Governor Basuki Purnama has given Islamic extremists the opportunity they were looking for. By John McBeth.
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Ban the burqa? Scrap the sari? Why women’s clothing matters
British missionaries hated the sari; US feminists would ban the burqa. Why do empires care so much about women’s clothes? By Rafia Zakaria.
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Turkey is swiftly heading towards a regime of terror
‘In Turkey, we are progressively putting behind bars all people who take the liberty of voicing even the slightest criticism of the government, By Gwynne Dyer.
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Mike Pence Will Be the Most Powerful Christian Supremacist in U.S. History
Mike Pence’s ascent to the second most powerful position in the U.S. government is a tremendous coup for the radical religious right. By Jeremy Scahill.
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The [“]Genius[”] of Byzantium: Reflections on a Forgotten Empire
Everywhere Western man longs for Constantinople and nowhere has he any idea how to find her. By Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna.
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Iraqi forces grind on in east Mosul as political rift opens over Shi’ite militias
Iraq’s sectarian political leaders have plunged back into a dispute over the status of Shi’ite armed groups, undermining efforts to reunite the country as its troops press on with the assault of Mosul, Islamic State’s biggest stronghold. By Michael Georgy, Isabel Coles and John Davison.
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Peace Shall Destroy Many
‘It creates deep-seated wells of rage that find no release.’ Miriam Toews on how pacifism can lead to violence.
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How Will Our Religions Handle the Discovery of Alien Life?
What would your priest, rabbi, or imam say if we discovered alien life? By David A. Weintraub.
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‘Tenderness Leads To The Gas Chamber’
On euthanasia, the Catholic bishops of eastern Canada say, ‘Who are we to judge?’ By Rod Dreher.
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The Making of an American Terrorist
Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic and killed three people. Did the right-wing media help turn a disturbed loner into a mass murderer? By Amanda Robb.
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How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail
Why worldview threats undermine evidence. By Michael Shermer.
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Your App Isn’t Helping The People Of Saudi Arabia
On March 15, 2002, 15 Saudi girls burned to death inside their school in Mecca. They were not trapped by fallen debris, or unaccounted for by firefighters. The mutaween, Saudi Arabia’s religious police, would not allow the girls to leave their burning school because they were not covering their hair or wearing their abayas... By Felix Biederman.
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Religious Liberty is Only for Christians in Texas
Texas Republicans talk a lot about religious freedom, meanwhile GOP leaders impose their own beliefs about abortion and LGBT rights on everybody else. By David R. Brockman. (Nov. 1, 2016)
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Family Values
Mapping the spread of antigay ideology. By Masha Gessen.
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The Amateur Historian Who Uncovered Ireland’s Mass Grave of Babies
The dogged effort of a determined historian in a small Irish town uncovered one of the greatest tragedies in modern Irish history. By Tom Sykes.
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Betsy DeVos' Holy War on Education
Betsy DeVos’ appointment as Education Secretary marks crowning achievement of Christian right’s campaign to infiltrate America’s secular institutions. By Janet Reitman.
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What’s So ‘American’ About John Milton’s Lucifer?
The fallen archangel and antagonist of the epic poem. By Edward Simon.
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