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Foreigners in Bali find themselves in hot water with Hindus over offensive social media posts

Foreigners in Bali find themselves in hot water with Hindus over offensive social media posts, including a man who attempted a Māori Haka on a holy mountain while naked.

ABC News

When does life begin? Religions don't agree

Debates about abortion often center around the issue of when life begins. Some religions say it's at conception. Another says it's with the baby's first breath.

WEKU

From baguette sandwiches to Roman Catholic architecture, the colonial legacy is everywhere in Vietnam

A place with a definitive French flair like no other, it’s one of the first destinations of my ‘revenge travel’ series

The Hindu

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Noosa Temple of Satan education challenge dismissed by judge as 'jumble of confected nonsense'

A Supreme Court judge dismisses a group of Satanists' bid to teach religious classes in some Queensland schools, describing the case as a "deplorable waste of state resources" and a political stunt.

ABC News

Satanic teachings disallowed in schools

A Noosa Temple of Satan founder has been ordered to front court, while another leader of the group has lost legal action against the Queensland government.

AAP

Tom Tilley on growing up ‘hardline’ Pentecostal: ‘It was weird – it was speaking in tongues’

After leaving the church in his early 20s, the former Hack host spent more than a decade making up for lost time in the party scene. Now a father, he’s looking for meaning without religion

The Guardian - AU

Supreme Court is loud and clear on noise pollution

Its verdicts on loudspeakers were aimed to protect citizens from becoming ‘forced audience’ to noise

The Hindu

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From activist rabbis to the Temple of Satan: Surprising tactics in the fight to preserve abortion rights

Religious communities are flooding to the frontlines of the country’s fight for abortion rights

The Independent UK

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.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Jesus said to pray in a ‘closet,’ not on the 50-yard line

In the 1990s, when Congress was embarking on yet another reckless attempt to legislate public prayer in public schools, the Republican senator from Oregon, Mark O. Hatfield, asked for the floor. Hatfield, an evangelical and lifelong Baptist, testified that he had frequently prayed in school — typically before math tests.

Los Angeles Times

Indian state leader pushes to replace religion-based laws

India should replace marriage and inheritance laws that are based on religion with a uniform civil code, the chief minister of a northeastern state said on Sunday, taking aim at rules that allow Muslim men, for example, to have four wives.

Reuters

What's happening in our brains when we meditate? It's not just a question for neuroscience

There's something special happening when we meditate. But how does it actually work? One expert says the key to finding out is bringing together insights from many disciplines — from neuroscience to philosophy and religion.

ABC News

Faith in fasting

Most religions prescribe going without food for certain periods, which actually work in favour of health too

The Hindu

How Christian nationalism warped America

Scholar Samuel Perry says the myth of a "Christian nation" has distorted American history from 1690 to Trump

Salon

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The Independent UK

Interfaith Trolley offers tour of religion in America

Some Chicagoans got a crash course in the world’s religions recently, visiting five major religious sites on the city’s south side — including Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Ebenezer Baptist Church and Masjid Al-Taqwa

The Conversation

How race and religion have always played a role in who gets refuge in the US

In the weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians have fled the country as refugees. Hundreds of those refugees have now arrived at the southern border of the United States seeking asylum, after flying to Mexico on tourist visas.

Inverse

Shiva: 'Moon Knight' Episode 5 finally confirms Marc Spector is Jewish — here's how

Is Moon Knight a Jew? In Episode 5 of the Marvel series, we finally get confirmation that Marc Spector's religion thanks to a depiction of an important Jewish custom: Shiva.

The Conversation

Caste doesn't just exist in India or in Hinduism – it is pervasive across many religions in South Asia and the diaspora

The California State University system, America’s largest public higher education system, recently added caste, a birth-based social hierarchy system, to its anti-discrimination policy, allowing students, staff and faculty across its 23 campuses to report caste bias and discrimination.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Religion case will test if justices really are originalists, or just partisans

The constitutional principle of separation of church and state isn’t really that complicated: Americans are free to express their religious beliefs. But an instrument of government — like, say, a public employee on a high school football field — cannot be commandeered to promote that expression. And public school kids…

The Hindu

PM Modi hails contributions of Sree Narayana Guru

‘The saint-reformer had refined the religion and changed it according to the times,’ says the PM

Dynamite News

Atmanirbhar Bharat is Shri Narayana Guru's philosophy, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the message of 'One Caste, One Religion and One God' of the legendary social reformer lays the foundation of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat’. More on Dynamite News:

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?

Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court conservatives lean toward allowing football coach’s postgame prayers

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave a mostly sympathetic hearing Monday to a former high school football coach whose prayers on the field may open the door for broader expression of religion in public schools.

Reason

Academic Freedom Alliance Letter to St. Olaf College

Religion and philosophy professor removed from directing a scholarly center for inviting Peter Singer to give a public lecture.

Reason

Fraud Prosecution for Specific False Statements About Meat Claimed to Be Halal Allowed,

though laws generally banning mislabeling food as “halal” (or “kosher”) violate the Establishment Clause.

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