The Vatican has recalled a postage stamp promoting this year’s World Youth Day in Portugal following complaints that it celebrated Portugal’s colonial empire and the nationalist dictatorship of Antonio Salazar at a time when the Holy See has been atoning for colonial-era…
Tim Keller, influential author and pastor, receiving hospice care at home
Tim Keller, an influential Presbyterian Church in America minister who founded a network of evangelical Christian churches in New York City, has been placed on hospice care.
Hell, yes: younger Britons more likely to believe in damnation, study finds
You may think the idea of hellfire belongs to an age when people’s lives were shaped by the threat of eternal damnation.
Auschwitz museum begins emotional work of conserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children
In a modern conservation laboratory on the grounds of the former Auschwitz camp, a man wearing blue rubber gloves uses a scalpel to scrape away rust from the eyelets of small brown shoes worn by children before they were murdered…
Kashmiri Muslims Slam Social Media Influencers For Violating Faith And Sentiments
Canon India, the regional subsidiary of the world’s top camera brand, uploaded a picture from Kashmir on its social media handles on Oct. 8 of last year.
Jewish middle school teacher in Wisconsin arrested for threatening students over swastika drawings
A Jewish teacher at a public middle school in Wisconsin was arrested last week for threatening his students with gun violence after discovering a piece of paper with swastikas in class.
Why California’s caste discrimination bill is itself discriminatory
In the past several months the drumbeat behind the effort to make “caste” a separate, stand-alone category of discrimination has been growing louder and faster.
Americans Read the Bible More After Switching Denominations
Enid Almanzar was shocked the first time she walked into an evangelical church. She had been raised Catholic and was used to stained-glass windows, ornate crosses, portraits of saints, and statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary.
6 things we now know (maybe) about the LDS church’s wealth
On Sunday (May 14), former Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints portfolio manager David Nielsen broke his long silence, granting an interview about his 2019 whistleblower complaint to the IRS about LDS finances. The church had employed him for…