Opinion | A Supreme Court Case Threatens the Church-State Divide
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Opinion | A Supreme Court Case Threatens the Church-State Divide

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines While the country holds its breath for the Supreme Court’s responses to the Trump administration’s serial depredations, it’s hard to focus on anything else. Nonetheless, a case set for argument next month before the court merits more attention than the little it has…

How Yehonatan Indursky Fled His Ultra-Orthodox Life — and Returned
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How Yehonatan Indursky Fled His Ultra-Orthodox Life — and Returned

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines This wasn’t yet a reconversion, only a crucial dalliance. But on Tinder, he met the woman who would become his wife, a French Jew who had recently moved to Israel and wished to become more observant. “In slow motion,” he said, she helped…

Christianity’s Decline in U.S. Appears to Have Halted, Major Study Shows
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Christianity’s Decline in U.S. Appears to Have Halted, Major Study Shows

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For decades, social scientists, demographers and Christians themselves have told a familiar story about the state of Christianity in the United States: The country was rapidly secularizing. The Christian population was shrinking, on its way to becoming a minority religion. America may have…

One Nation, Under God – The New York Times
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One Nation, Under God – The New York Times

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As religion in America declined, experts administered last rites. Churches were approaching “their twilight hour” as attendance fell, The Brookings Institution wrote in 2011. In his 2023 book, “Losing Our Religion,” the evangelical preacher Russell Moore asked: “Can American Christianity survive?” The answer…

Maha Kumbh Mela: World’s Largest Gathering Begins in India
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Maha Kumbh Mela: World’s Largest Gathering Begins in India

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Hundreds of millions of Hindus are convening this week in what is expected to be the world’s largest human gathering, where a staggering number of devotees, tourists, politicians and celebrities take sacred dips at the convergence of two holy rivers in India. The…