- March 22, 2024
RELIGION
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Photos of the Week: Holi, Ramadan
- By West virginia digital
- . March 22, 2024
(RNS) — Each week Religion News Service presents a gallery of photos of religious expression around the world. This week’s photo gallery includes Holi celebrations
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Religious affairs expert Thomas Bowen moves from city of Washington to White House
- By West virginia digital
- . March 22, 2024
WASHINGTON (RNS) — In the month since moving from Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration to the White House, the Rev. Thomas L. Bowen keeps encountering familiar
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The politics of this Easter season
- By West virginia digital
- . March 22, 2024
(RNS) — The Christian celebration of Easter is about new life, yet the world’s consciousness remains flooded with ideas of death, where it is occurring
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Their children disappeared in Argentina’s dictatorship. These mothers have looked for them since
- By West virginia digital
- . March 22, 2024
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Forty-seven years ago, before her hair turned white and she had no need of a wheelchair to march around Argentina’s
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Belgian bishop defrocked 14 years after admitting to abusing nephew
- By West virginia digital
- . March 22, 2024
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Thursday defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced
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What the Buddhist text Therigatha teaches about women’s enlightenment
- By West virginia digital
- . March 22, 2024
(The Conversation) — Images of Buddha’s enlightenment often portray him sitting alone under the bodhi tree, his body emaciated from fasting. Some depictions show the
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The cost of not being angry
- By West virginia digital
- . March 22, 2024
(RNS) — How can people with opposing points of view who inhabit the same spaces — a campus, a neighborhood — share their ideas in
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African spiritualities are attracting Black Americans as a source of pride and identity
- By West virginia digital
- . March 22, 2024
(RNS) — Growing up, Chaya Murrell started her day by reciting the Bible’s Psalm 23, which begins, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not
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God loves you. Deal with it.
- By West virginia digital
- . March 21, 2024
What are the three little words that rabbis almost never, ever, say to their congregations? Hold on, because I am about to say them. God
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Southern Baptists elect Jeff Iorg to lead Executive Committee
- By West virginia digital
- . March 21, 2024
(RNS) — After more than two years of uncertainty and at times, chaos, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee has a new president. At a