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Will Pope Francis Cause a Schism in the Catholic Church?

Source: The New Yorker By Vinson Cunningham Illustration by Javier Jaén; photograph from iStock / Getty https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/thenewyorker/#file=https://downloads.newyorker.com/mp3/180416cr_critics_cunningham_audm.mp3 Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone. For the better part of the past two years, Catholics around the world have been fighting over a footnote. In […]

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Thousands join March for Humanity to honor Martin Luther King Jr.

Source: myAJC By Rosalind Bentley and Ernie Suggs – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution     Martin Luther King III, center, holding hands with his daughter Yolanda Renee King, leads the March for Humanity Monday commemorating the funeral procession for his father. Rosalind Bentley / rbentley@ajc.com Updated: 4:16 p.m. Monday, April 09, 2018 |  Posted: 3:18 p.m. Monday, April […]

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Germany appoints commissioner to fight anti-Semitism

Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany has appointed a career diplomat as its commissioner to coordinate government activities against anti-Semitism, a new job that reflects rising concerns over the issue. The government said Wednesday that Felix Klein, the foreign ministry’s coordinator for relations with Jewish organizations since 2014, will […]

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Traditional antisemitism is back, global study finds

Source: The Guardian Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent  A placard at a protest outside parliament in London on 26 March. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA Feelings of insecurity are widespread among European Jews as a result of the resurgence of the extreme right, a heated anti-Zionist discourse on the left and radical Islam, according […]

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Converting to Buddhism as a Form of Political Protest

Source: The Atlantic Low-caste Indians are leaving Hinduism en masse—partly to stick it to their prime minister. A conversion ceremony in Shirasgaon, India, in 2018Krithika Varagur  BY KRITHIKA VARAGUR  SHIRASGAON, India—More than 500 low-caste Hindus filled the Veera Maidan, an open field at the edge of a dusty Maharashtra village, […]