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A man places flowers at a memorial honoring Dr. John Cheng outside his office building on Tuesday in Aliso Viejo, Calif. Cheng, 52, was killed in Sunday's shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church.

Suspect faces multiple charges in a deadly California church shooting

May 17, 2022
A prosecutor said the man charged with opening fire on a Taiwanese church congregation in Southern California wanted to "execute in cold blood as many people in that room as possible."
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National
Crime scene tape on Sunday at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, Calif., after a fatal shooting.

Parishioners stop gunman in deadly California church attack

May 16, 2022
A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church, killing one person and wounding five before parishioners hog-tied him with electrical cords.
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Health Care

A hospital chaplain reflects on two years of work during COVID

May 14, 2022
For our series "Outbreak Voices," hospital chaplain Stephanie Ramos of Los Angeles recounts what two years of her ministry has been like, comforting the sick and grieving affected by COVID-19.
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Roe v. Wade and the future of reproductive rights in America
A man holds a cross during an anti-abortion rally on the National Mall in Washington on Jan. 24, 2011.

Roe draft is a reminder that religion's role in politics is older than the republic

May 14, 2022
The question arises: Since when did so much of our politics have to do with religion? And the answer is, since the beginning — and even before.
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Asia

Muslim girls in India are missing out on education as they fight classroom hijab ban

May 11, 2022
When her high school banned the hijab, Ayesha Shifa sued — and her case went to India's Supreme Court. A verdict, expected soon, may redefine what secularism means in the world's largest democracy.
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Religion
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Christmas liturgy at the Transfiguration Cathedral in St. Petersburg early on Jan. 7, 2020. In the U.S., Orthodox Christianity is a relatively small faith tradition, but in recent years, it has expanded to new r

Orthodox Christian churches are drawing in far-right American converts

May 10, 2022
Orthodox Christianity is a relatively small faith tradition in the U.S., but in recent years it has expanded to new regions. Some new converts are using the religion to spread white nationalist views.
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Shots - Health News
West Hansen's role is to inform people of the government benefits and services they can access, including the coronavirus vaccine. But many of his clients distrust the needle.

The number of Americans who say they won't get a COVID shot hasn't budged in a year

May 10, 2022
Politics, religion, distrust and disinformation all play a role. "I've realized that there's no convincing somebody once they have their mind made up," says a social worker in Beaumont, Texas.
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Religion

How abortion became a mobilizing issue among the religious right

May 08, 2022
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kristin Kobes Du Mez, professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University, about how evangelicals shaped the debate over abortion in the United States.
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World
Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul on April 25. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public.

The Taliban orders women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public

May 07, 2022
The decree, which calls for women in Afghanistan to show only their eyes and recommends they wear the burqa, evoked similar restrictions during the Taliban's previous rule.
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National Security

Burundian peacekeepers in Somalia killed by Islamic extremists, African Union says

May 04, 2022
The African Union says a number of Burundian peacekeepers were killed in Tuesday's attack by Islamic extremist rebels who targeted a remote military base in Somalia.
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National
Then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala., on March 4, 2007. The church tops the 2022 list of the nation's most endangered historic places, according to the National Trust for Histo

A church at the heart of Selma's 1965 voting rights march is an endangered place

May 04, 2022
The Brown Chapel AME Church, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Ala., tops this year's list of the nation's most endangered historic places.
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History
Activists Lori Gordon (R) and Tammie Miller (L) of Payne, Ohio, take part in the annual "March for Life" event January 22, 2002 in Washington, D.C.

The movement against abortion rights is nearing its apex. But it began way before Roe

May 04, 2022
Despite gaining national traction in the 1970s, the history of the anti-abortion movement in the U.S. goes back more than a century before the landmark Supreme Court decision.
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Law
Boston City Hall

Supreme Court says Boston unconstitutionally barred Christian flag from city hall

May 02, 2022
The unanimous decision was sufficiently narrow that other cities, indeed Boston itself, could construct rules that would limit flag flying to government-approved messages.
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Perspective
Lebanese-American designer and owner of ModernEID Jomana Siddiqui organizes her Ramadan and EID decor and gifts. there has been a rise in companies like hers that make Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, a more commercialized holiday.

Like Christmas, Eid is being commercialized – and that's a welcome thing

May 01, 2022
For many Muslims, western holiday celebrations like Christmas once felt like the kind of universal affirmation we could never attain. But, today, it's a markedly different story.
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World
Workers pound the steaming mixture of meat, lentils, wheat and spices with long wooden paddles to give the haleem its signature smooth texture.

This goat and lentil stew is a beloved Ramadan tradition in Hyderabad, India

Apr 29, 2022
The Ramadan fast is usually followed by a feast. In Hyderabad, India, that feast is dominated by haleem, a meat and lentil stew pounded into paste and flavored with rose petals, cinnamon and cardamom.
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Religion
Over 3.45 million Americans celebrate the Islamic holy month - here are a few tips to get you acquainted!

Not even water? And other things not to say to your Muslim friends during Ramadan

Apr 28, 2022
Over 3.45 million Americans celebrate the Islamic holy month - here are a few tips to get you acquainted!
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Law

Supreme Court seems sympathetic to a coach who claims the right to pray

Apr 25, 2022
The court's liberal wing has no desire to overturn the court's precedents, but its conservatives want to focus on accommodating religion in public schools and other public institutions.
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Law

Supreme Court seems sympathetic to coach who claims right to pray on the 50-yard-line

Apr 25, 2022
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing the case of Joe Kennedy, a former assistant high school football coach who was suspended after praying on the field.
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Law
The parties included this image of Coach Kennedy, praying with the crowd after the homecoming game, in their joint appendix submitted to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court ponders the right to pray on the 50-yard line

Apr 25, 2022
The case comes to the court in the midst of a sea change in the law relating to the relationship between government and religion.
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World

Clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians continue at the Al-Aqsa mosque

Apr 23, 2022
Repeated clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians have taken place this week at the most sensitive site in Jerusalem: the Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
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Simon Says
A Ukrainian national flag is seen through a window of a destroyed apartment, on Thursday in Borodianka, Ukraine.

Opinion: The failed promise of 'never again'

Apr 23, 2022
NPR's Scott Simon has a remembrance of a 91-year-old woman who surived the Holocaust, but could not survive Russia's weeks-long assault on Mariupol.
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Education
Talha Rafique picks up his to-go suhoor box from a campus dining hall at the University of Southern California. "My friends and I actually look forward to Ramadan," he says.

College life isn't always Ramadan-friendly. Some schools want to change that

Apr 23, 2022
As Muslim students across the country began fasting for Ramadan, colleges have stepped up efforts to make them feel more included on campus.
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Religion

Displaced Ukrainians in Bulgaria are finding ways to mark Orthodox Easter

Apr 22, 2022
This weekend is Orthodox Easter, a holiday celebrated in Ukraine. Millions are fleeing the Russian invasion right now, but those seeking refuge in Bulgaria are marking the holiday.
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National

A New Jersey Catholic diocese agrees to pay $87.5M to settle sex abuse lawsuits

Apr 20, 2022
The Diocese of Camden agreed to settle claims involving clergy sex abuse with some 300 alleged victims in one of the largest cash settlements involving the Catholic Church in the United States.
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Latin America

How a Brazilian priest got his city to pay attention to its unhoused citizens' needs

Apr 18, 2022
A Brazilian priest has made the mega-city of São Paulo pay attention to its homeless population's needs.
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