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April 04, 2025

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IN THE NEWS

Historic complete Chinese Bible translation sold for £56,000 at auction

The first complete version of the Bible in Chinese has sold at auction for over £56,000 after being donated to an Oxfam store in Essex. This Chinese edition was translated by John Lassar and Joshua Marshman and published in a series....


A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland. Here’s why it has modern resonances

A movement that wanted to merge North America into one nation and extend its borders as far as the Panama Canal might sound incredibly familiar. But this group, called the “technocracy movement”, was a group of 1930s nonconformists with....


Shocking survey finds only 11% of Americans believe in the Trinity​

According to a new survey conducted by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, only 11 percent of Americans believe in the Trinity. The survey, which polled 2,100 adults in January as part of its latest installment of its American....


Supreme Court seems ready to let religious groups opt out of unemployment compensation laws

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared openly doubtful on Monday about Wisconsin's refusal to exempt Catholic Charities from making payments into the state's mandatory unemployment system. Monday's case was brought by a single chapter....


Lourdes bishop covering disgraced ex-Jesuit Marko Rupnik’s mosaics on basilica doors

Bishop Jean-Marc Micas of Tarbes and Lourdes has decided to cover mosaics by Father Marko Rupnik at the entrance of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary, a move aimed at making the basilica more welcoming for all, particularly victims....


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Interactive Holy Week dioramas inspire faith at St. John’s Episcopal

For a second year, parishioners at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Homestead, Florida, can experience Holy Week through 10 vivid dioramas in the church’s narthex. Senior warden Ahmed Otero created these three-dimensional scenes....


Christian asylum seekers in Thailand struggle after refugee program halt

Omar, a Pakistani asylum seeker in Thailand, fled his homeland at age nine after his family was targeted for converting from Islam to Christianity. Pakistan ranks eighth globally for Christian persecution, and blasphemy laws carry death penalties. In....


Lawsuit challenges cuts to US legal aid for immigrant children

More than a dozen nonprofit legal groups have filed a lawsuit against the federal government to restore funding to a legal program for unaccompanied immigrant children. The Trump administration recently cut $200 million from the....


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COMMENTARY

Want to Know What a Project 2025 World Looks Like? Just Ask the Homeschoolers Who Lived it

Although President Trump’s executive order on elections signed earlier this week is probably unconstitutional, it closely resembles the stalled SAVE Act, which requires voters to present a passport or birth certificate in person when registering to vote...


Writing for the Public Good in a Democracy in Crisis

In the year 431 BC, the world shook. Or so it must have seemed to one Athenian man, Thucydides, son of Olorus. He did what seemed best at that moment—began documenting the unfolding chaos around. But even as he recognized that....


A Small-Town Dentist Chooses to Stay

When a professional forgoes better pay to devote his life to the rural community he was born into, the benefits ripple outward. I can’t remember my first visit to the storefront dental office at 524 Main Street in Knox, Pennsylvania, population 1,089....


A Movement to Destroy U.S. Democracy Controls the Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court—But What’s Behind It?

The man in the MAGA cap and the “Size Matters” T-shirt allowed me to take his picture. The “size” in question had to do with bullets, represented on the shirt in a line from pistol- to bazooka-grade. Not far from us stood a man in a T-shirt that read...


(Anti-)Christian Politics

President Donald Trump has been in his second term for less than two months and has signed nearly ninety executive orders already.1 The sheer number, to say nothing of the content, is astounding. With each executive order and piece of....


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How Valerie the Weiner Dog Survived 18 Months in the Australian Bush to Make it Home

On an island south of Adelaide, a strange creature has been seen creeping through the bush. A long cylindrical body and long snout flanked by floppy ears are dead giveaways. But this wiener dog named Valerie isn’t lost anymore. After almost 18....


‘Change Has Been Amazing’ For Depleted Mountain: with New Vegetation Comes Deer, Pumas, Andean Bears

High along the peaks and ridges of the mountains in Ecuador, a 25-year-long conservation program is bearing succulent fruit in the form of cleaner water and abundant wildlife. Established in the year 2000, Quito’s fund for the protection of....


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