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A pro boxer who owns a cheesesteak spot? Meet Ismail Muhammad, the Philly-est of Philly fighters.

PHILADELPHIA — Ismail Muhammad grabbed a handful of chopped chicken last week as the grill behind him sizzled. He used those hands — the ones that were crafting a cheesesteak egg roll — a few days earlier to knock out another foe, sprinkling more promise on his boxing career. And…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

‘A people’s leader, who maintained relationships beyond political affiliations’

All religion prayer condoling death of former CM Oommen Chandy

The Hindu

OPINION - It’s time to think radically about how much the state spends on the NHS

It’s often said that the NHS is the closest thing we have to religion. It defines us, it unites us, you won’t find anyone who disagrees with its founding principles of healthcare for all, free at the point of use — and yet, it is failing us. And it might…

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As politics becomes religion, the right invents a new way to avoid accountability

After the robodebt royal commission, some voices on the right are trying to discredit Labor’s inquiries into Coalition scandals.

Crikey

A common civil code spelling equality for every Indian

Confining the discussion of India’s personal laws within a Hindu-Muslim binary leaves out the potential to empower a wide section of the population

The Hindu

Bihar Sunni Wakf Board opposes Uniform Civil Code

Sunni Wakf Board of Bihar has opposed the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) saying that its implementation will hurt the religious sentiment of people of different religions. The Board also said that the Narendra Modi government wanted to implement it forcefully which was “not a welcome decision”.

The Hindu

Religion shapes vaccine views – but how exactly? Our analysis looks at ideas about God and beliefs about the Bible

Many scientists and public health officials were surprised that large swaths of the public were hesitant or outright hostile toward COVID-19 vaccines. “I never saw that coming,” Francis Collins, a former director of the National Institutes of Health, commented in 2022. Even today, three years after the start of the…

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The Creator trailer breakdown: director Gareth Edwards on nuclear war, AI, religion, fatherhood, and a robot carrying bananas on a moped…

EXCLUSIVE: The director of The Creator breaks down the brand-new trailer’s biggest talking points

Total Film

Iranian academic will appeal against prison sentence for criticising government

Sadegh Zibakalam was sentenced for tweeting in March about the alleged poisoning of schoolchildren in Iran

The Guardian - UK

Drugs and religion have been a potent combination for millennia, from cannabis at ancient funerary sites to psychedelic retreats today

Psychedelics are all the rage. Well-known figures like quarterback Aaron Rodgers, singer Miley Cyrus and boxer Mike Tyson testify to their transformative impact. Less visible consumers are “microdosing” or signing up for retreats with shamanic guides in this rapidly expanding subculture. In June 2023, the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies…

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Xi Jinping and Pope Francis battle for the church in Hong Kong

The pontiff’s goal of retaining Catholicism in China is directly at odds with President Xi’s growing restrictions on religion.

Crikey

DMK strongly opposes Uniform Civil Code, says it could have ‘potentially disastrous effect’ on secular ethos, law and order in T.N.

DMK opposes UCC, citing it as antithesis to freedom of religion & rights of minorities. UCC would have "disastrous effect" on secular ethos & law & order. DMK requests Law Commission to recommend Union govt not to implement UCC. UCC would harm Hindu cultures, customs & HUFs.

The Hindu

Stalin asks officials to monitor those making vicious remarks on caste, religion in social media

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Tuesday chaired a meeting in the Secretariat and reviewed the law and order situation across the State. During the meeting, he instructed senior officers to monitor miscreants in the social media who are spreading vicious remarks on caste and religion.

The Hindu

Mormon leaders – whose church is often associated with the GOP – push back against one-party politics

Top leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dropped a bombshell in June 2023 by telling their flock to vote for Democrats – well, almost.

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Fox Sports, Religion of Sports Secure Multiyear Production Deal

First film of partnership, ‘The Kid Mero: The MLB All-Star Game,’ debuts July 10

The Hindu

M. P. school disallows student entry over ‘tilak’

A private school in Indore has been asked by the Education Department to maintain “all religion harmony” after it allegedly disallowed a student from sporting a tilak (religious mark on forehead with vermilion), an official said on Sunday.

The Hindu

Religion status for Lingayat will not harm Hinduism, says Sri Siddarama Swami of Gadag

“Lingayat getting religion status will not harm Hinduism in any way,” Sri Siddarama Swami of Gadag Tontadarya Math said in Dharwad on Sunday.

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‘Don’t want a Muslim in our village’: Registration denied over faith, Pune man struggles to build house

With the gram panchayat objecting to “his religion”, a construction contractor from Maharashtra’s Pune district is unable to obtain a registration for a structure he had constructed for his new house.

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The Guardian - UK

A seat in the House of Lords isn’t God-given. It’s time parliament ejected all the bishops

Scrapping automatic places for a minority religion is as good a place as any to start with reform of the upper house, says humanist Sandi Toksvig

The Hindu

Supreme Court to hear plea to make Scheduled Caste status ‘religion-neutral’

“Since the word ‘religion’ does not even exist in Article 341(1), the ban concerning Christians and Muslims in Paragraph 3 of the 1950 Order should be deleted.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Supreme Court opens the door to gut civil rights, fair housing laws

Substitute “African American” for “LGBT+” in the case of Colorado web designer Lorie Smith, and you’ve got a return to the bad old days of Jim Crow when so many alleged Christians insisted their religion required separation of the races, a lawyer writes.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

65 cases of child abuse related to religion identified in fiscal 2017-2022

Child consultation centers identified 65 cases of child abuse related to religious faith from fiscal 2017 to fiscal 2022, a recent survey by The Yomiuri Shimbun has discovered.

The Conversation

The Colorado website designer's win is one of dozens of federal cases where religious beliefs and LGBTQ+ rights have clashed – and the pattern might not be what you think

Does a Colorado designer’s belief that marriage is between one man and one woman merit an exemption to state law barring discrimination against LGBTQ+ people? On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court decided 6-3 that the answer is yes: Requiring a conservative Christian business owner to create wedding websites for…

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400 years ago, philosopher Blaise Pascal was one of the first to grapple with the role of faith in an age of science and reason

In an apostolic letter released on June 19, 2023, Pope Francis praised the “brilliant and inquisitive mind” of the influential French philosopher Blaise Pascal, born on that date 400 years ago.

Newslaundry

Kolhapur lecturer ‘forced’ to go on leave for saying rapists ‘can be from any religion’

When college professor Tejaswini Desai told her first-year class that perpetrators of rape can be from any religion or community, she never imagined that the consequences would include being questioned by the police and a hate campaign on social media.

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