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On Purim in wartime, Jews wrestle with a biblical story of retribution
The festival of fun and frivolity has been harder for some Jews to celebrate in the wake of the destruction of Gaza.
National Rally Leader Heads to Israel, a First for French Far-Right Party
As Jordan Bardella, its young president, tries to distance the party from its history of antisemitism, it is making common ...
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Deciphering French Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
From the fanfare-laden reopening of Notre-Dame to the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit held in the cavernous halls of ...
UCA News3d
French bishops publish major study to boost interest in faith
Religious heritage restoration revives faith, drawing people to historic churches and inspiring record baptisms in 2024 ...
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French bishops publish major study to boost interest in faith, help save churches
From big cities like France's Marseille, to smaller towns in Normandy, people are rejoicing as their local Catholic heritage ...
For superfans, comic-con culture is more than fun – it’s sacred, a sociologist explains
In my own work as a sociologist, I organize this concept of the sacred into seven specific dimensions. For example, the sacred is powerful: a potent force that garners respect, fear and awe. The ...
What’s the line between religion and cult? It’s blurry in this community in the California redwoods
Nicole Cuffy’s second novel, 'O Sinners!,' examines the blurry lines between cult and religion, making for both a clever ...
The extraordinary civil war engulfing one of Britain’s greatest cathedrals
In 2020, in the shadow of Winchester Cathedral, the Rev Canon Andy Trenier gave an address for the Holy Week on Judas and how ...
Hundreds of Minorities, Including Christians, Killed in Syria—Reports
Since Thursday, more than 1,000 people—including Christian minorities and Alawites, the sect to which Assad belongs—have been killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and ...