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Artist Kerry James Marshall, who has been selected to design a replacement of former Confederate-themed stained glass windows that were taken down in 2017 at the National Cathedral, stands in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. The Cathedral has also commissioned Pulitzer-nominated poet Elizabeth Alexander to pen a poem that will be inscribed in the stone beneath the new windows. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Famed Cathedral Names Artist to Replace Confederate Windows

23 September 2021

Washington National Cathedral has chosen contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall to design new stained-glass windows...

AP News

Rose Kaur Sodhi, a medical resident at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, stands for a portrait Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, in Los Angeles. Rose, Balbir Singh Sodhi’s niece, was a second grader getting ready for a relative’s birthday party when her family learned of her uncle’s murder. “We knew something was terribly wrong because my dad came home crying. I had never seen that before,” she said of her father and Balbir’s brother, Rana Singh Sodhi, who became a well-known figure in the Sikh American community and taught her to share her family’s story and advocate for peace. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Young Sikhs Still Struggle with Post-Sept. 11 Discrimination

7 September 2021

Sikh entrepreneur Balbir Singh Sodhi was killed at his Arizona gas station four days after...

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Did a Billboard in Missouri Show President Trump Alongside a Gospel Quote?

7 November 2018

Some Christians expressed concern that a billboard near St. Louis seemingly equated the 45th president...

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Did Methodists Bring Church Charges Against Jeff Sessions?

20 June 2018

Hundreds of the Attorney General's fellow church-members signed a letter claiming his "zero-tolerance" immigration policy...

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Did a Mississippi Democrat Propose a Law to Force Teachers to Recite the Ten Commandments?

25 January 2018

The implications of a bill put forward by State Representative Credell Calhoun are unclear.

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A History of the ‘War on Christmas’

29 November 2017

How wishing people "Happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" came to be regarded as an...

News

Iceland Mandates Mental Health Warnings on All Bibles? A satirical article about Iceland, Bibles, and mental health was mistaken as genuine news by...

Fact Check

Pentagram Displayed at Florida Park Run Over by Angry Driver

20 December 2016

A Satanic display placed in the city's free speech area has been vandalized multiple times.

News

House Democrats Strike to Implement Sharia Law

12 December 2016

Unreliable news sources reported that Democrats tried to implement Sharia law in the U.S. via...

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Were ‘Fixer Upper’ Stars Chip and Joanna Gaines Outed as Anti-Gay?

3 December 2016

An article speculated — based on the church they attend — that HGTV's 'Fixer Upper'...

News

The Satanic Temple Claims Immunity From Rule Requiring Fetal Burials

2 December 2016

If Texas tries to impose the rule on a member of the activist organization, they...

News

6,000 Muslims with Forged Papers Caught at Southern Border

24 October 2016

A claim that 6,000 Muslim migrants were captured at the U.S.-Mexico border with forged papers...

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