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Martyrs' Day: how life in Uganda today mirrors the dark old days of Kabaka

Martyrs’ Day in Uganda commemorates the bold decision of some early converts to Christianity to give up their lives for the sake of the gospel. The day, marked on 3 June every year since the 1920s, is therefore a pivotal celebration in the life and history of Christianity in Uganda.

The Conversation

Volodymyr vs. Vladimir: How rival statues explain the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Ukrainians call a legendary 10th-century ruler Volodymyr the Great. Russians call him Vladimir the Great. Here's a story on their dueling statues — and historical narratives — in Kyiv and Moscow.

WEKU

Goa | Pastor, his wife held on charge of luring people to convert to Christianity

Pastor Domnic D'Souza and his wife Joan were arrested after separate complaints were lodged against them

The Hindu

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Rosemary Radford Ruether, a founding mother of feminist theology, has died at age 85

Ruether was among the first scholars to think deeply about the role of women in Christianity, shaking up old patriarchies and pushing for change.

WEKU

Religious backers of abortion rights say God's on their side

The loudest voices in the abortion debate are often characterized along a starkly religious divide, the faithful versus not

The Independent UK

Devasahayam Pillai becomes first Indian layman to be declared saint by Pope Francis

‘While preaching, he insisted on equality of all people, despite caste differences’, says a note by Vatican

The Hindu

Faithful to celebrate canonisation of Devasahayam

Devasahayam Pillai had converted to Christianity in the 18th century

The Hindu

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Far-right Catholics, racists link arms

Activist arm of right-wing Catholic outlet Church Militant is increasingly entwined with racist "groyper" movement

Salon

Election 2022 seat explorer: how Australian electorates diverge on religion, country of birth and language

Major political parties are drawing more extensively on diversity data to help them target marginal seats

The Guardian - AU

MTG's religion: Nothing to do with Jesus

Greene and other Christian nationalists are spreading fear, deception and hate — but not the teachings of Jesus

Salon

Orthodox Christian churches are drawing in far-right American converts

Orthodox Christianity is a relatively small faith tradition in the U.S., but in recent years it has expanded to new regions. Some new converts are using the religion to spread white nationalist views.

WEKU

Apology, 800 years on, for laws that expelled Jews from England

Church service to mark eight centuries since Synod of Oxford brings together chief rabbi, senior Anglicans and a Roman Catholic bishop

The Guardian - UK

More on "Christianity and Equity"

In the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Law, Paul Miller and I are contributing a chapter on "Christianity and Equity." We've just posted a substantially revised version of the chapter. The new version has less coverage of Aristotle, but it adds a section on equity in the Hebrew Bible,…

Reason

Doug Mastriano embodies a Christian nationalist movement as he runs for Pa. governor: ‘We have the power of God’

PHILADELPHIA — The Shofar Army took the stage, nine white men and one woman draped in fringed Jewish prayer shawls, each clutching a ram’s horn — the instrument traditionally sounded on the Jewish high holidays.

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Short story writer Deesha Philyaw: ‘I wanted to challenge the church’s obsession with sex’

The author of the acclaimed The Secret Life of Church Ladies on the Black American Christian community, sexual shame and coming to terms with her queerness

Tribune News Service

John M. Crisp: Football and prayer? They just don’t mix

My father was neither a constitutional scholar nor a theologian. In fact, with his high school education, he delivered letters for the post office for 44 years in our small south Texas hometown.

The National (Scotland)

How books became the latest target in America's culture war

AMERICA is caught up in a new wave of book banning. It remains to be seen if the craze is a flair up of hysteria or an actual turn in the trajectory…

The Guardian - UK

The lost Jews of Nigeria

The long read: Until the 1990s, there were almost no Jews in Nigeria. Now thousands have enthusiastically taken up the faith. Why?

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Easter chants echo in ancient cistern near birthplace of Christianity

A few steps from Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a small opening leads to an underground cistern where clerics have found the perfect place to practise chants ahead of the holiest day in the Christian calendar.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Azhar’s Sheikh: Congratulating Christians on Holidays Comes from Understanding Islam

Al-Azhar Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayyeb announced that congratulating Christians on holidays is not out of courtesy or formalities but rather "comes from our understanding of the teachings of our true religion." The Grand Imam explained that the relationship between Muslims and Christians is a true embodiment of unity and brotherhood…

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