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President of the Metis community, Cassidy Caron, speaks to the media in St. Peter's Square after their meeting with Pope Francis at The Vatican, Monday, March 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Canada Indigenous Tell Pope of Abuses at Residential Schools
  • 28 March 2022
Indigenous leaders from Canada and survivors of the country’s notorious residential schools met with Pope...
  • AP News
Canada Indigenous Tell Pope of Abuses at Residential Schools
The Old City of Jerusalem is seen from the Mount of Olives, in East Jerusalem, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. Israel's Nature and Parks Authority says it is backing down from a plan to encompass Christian holy sites on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives in a national park after vociferous outcry from major churches. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
Israeli Authority Backs Down from Mount of Olives Park Plan
  • 21 February 2022
The Mount of Olives in east Jerusalem rises above Jerusalem’s Old City and its sites...
  • AP News
Israeli Authority Backs Down from Mount of Olives Park Plan
The Catholic Church said baptisms performed by priest, Rev. Andres Arango, who served in Arizona for 16 years are now presumed to be invalid because he used incorrect wording on a subtle but key component of the sacrament, including at St. Gregory Parish Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Baptisms by Arizona Priest Presumed Invalid Due to Error
  • 17 February 2022
Under scrutiny are baptisms performed by the Rev. Andres Arango, who served in Arizona for...
  • AP News
Baptisms by Arizona Priest Presumed Invalid Due to Error
Lyndon B. Johnson
Was Lyndon B. Johnson Actually Jewish?
  • 16 February 2022
The president allegedly had Jewish ancestry.
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Was Lyndon B. Johnson Actually Jewish?
FILE - This Dec. 8, 2015 file photo shows Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sitting in St. Peter's Basilica as he attends the ceremony marking the start of the Holy Year. Retired Pope Benedict XVI asked forgiveness Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, for any “grievous faults" in his handling of clergy sex abuse cases, but admitted to no personal or specific wrongdoing after an independent report criticized his actions in four cases while he was archbishop of Munich, Germany. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Retired Pope Asks Pardon for Abuse, but Admits No Wrongdoing
  • 8 February 2022
An independent report criticized Pope Benedict XVI's actions in four cases while he was archbishop...
  • AP News
Retired Pope Asks Pardon for Abuse, but Admits No Wrongdoing
Mickey Levy, Speaker of the Knesset, reacts during the commemoration of the "Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism" in the German Bundestag, Berlin, Thursday, Jan.27, 2022. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)
World Remembers Holocaust As Antisemitism Rises in Pandemic
  • 27 January 2022
International Holocaust Remembrance Day falls on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most...
  • AP News
World Remembers Holocaust As Antisemitism Rises in Pandemic
Dave Ley, co-owner of Exoticars, an auto restoration shop specializing in classic vehicles, pulls a restored statue of the Buddha outside in McCandless, Pa., on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021. Workers repaired and repainted the figure for the Pittsburgh Buddhist Center, which brought it from Sri Lanka over 15 years ago. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Bentleys to Buddhas: Vintage-Car Shop Restores Temple Statue
  • 9 November 2021
The major branches of Buddhism are often known as “vehicles,” or ways of spiritual practice.
  • AP News
Bentleys to Buddhas: Vintage-Car Shop Restores Temple Statue
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
Famed Cathedral Names Artist to Replace Confederate Windows
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...
  • AP News
Young Sikhs Still Struggle with Post-Sept. 11 Discrimination
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...
  • Fact Check
Did a Billboard in Missouri Show President Trump Alongside a Gospel Quote?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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...
  • Fact Check
Did Methodists Bring Church Charges Against Jeff Sessions?
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.
  • Fact Check
Did a Mississippi Democrat Propose a Law to Force Teachers to Recite the Ten Commandments?
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