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When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, Nahid, 24, was midway through an economics degree. She had hoped to work in a…

A sharp debate over religious exemptions to school vaccine mandates is intensifying across the nation, just as vaccination rates of schoolchildren are declining and childhood diseases…

Gaza’s only Catholic church has been hit and Muslim cemeteries have been desecrated.Israel has bombed Gaza’s only Catholic church – the latest religious site hit in…

American Education Demands a Fact-Based Curriculum, Not Religious IdeologyOne hundred years after the Scopes trial, religious ideologues are still trying to supplant evidence-based curricula with myths,…

I’ll never forget the first time Brian Wilson made me see God. It was 1973, and I was sitting in the mostly empty balcony of a…

For over six decades, the “religious right” in America was boomer “Christian nationalism,” straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale. It was about “keeping God in the…

The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it is unable to decide a case asking it to force states to fund religious charter schools. The justices…

Wednesday night Mass at St. Ambrose University attracts a congregation of mostly students. On one recent evening, they added a prayer for the university’s new partnership…

DAVENPORT, Iowa — The Catholic prayer for the faithful echoed off the limestone walls and marble floor of the high-ceilinged chapel. It implored God to comfort…