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/ 9 months ago69% of US Muslims always give to charities during Ramadan, fulfilling a religious obligation
During the month-long period of fasting, the obligation of zakat takes on heightened significance.
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/ 9 months agoOne year ago, Pope Francis disavowed the ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ – but Indigenous Catholics’ work for respect and recognition goes back decades
Indigenous Catholics have long argued they should be able to embrace both sides of that identity.
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/ 9 months agoAs climate change and pollution imperil coral reefs, scientists are deep-freezing corals to repopulate future oceans
Just as the world’s zoos breed critically endangered animals in captivity to repopulate the wild, scientists are building a global effort...
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/ 9 months agoInvisible lines: how unseen boundaries shape the world around us
Maxim Samson speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the hidden lines that explain variations in everything from access to education...
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/ 9 months agoBridges can be protected from ship collisions – an expert on structures in disasters explains how
A civil engineer explains why ships taking out bridges is rare, and describes how bridge builders protect the structures from ship...
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/ 9 months agoPort of Baltimore bridge collapse rattles supply chains already rocked by troubles in Panama and the Red Sea
A supply chain expert looks at the short- and long-term impacts of the bridge collapse.
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/ 9 months agoWhy civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer was ‘sick and tired of being sick and tired’
Fannie Lou Hamer became one of the most respected civil rights leaders during the 1960s in part because of her resistance...
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/ 9 months agoHow to have the hard conversations about who really won the 2020 presidential election − before Election Day 2024
What does someone like me, who believes that the last presidential election was legitimately won by Joe Biden, say to those...
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/ 9 months agoThe roots of the Easter story: Where did Christian beliefs about Jesus’ resurrection come from?
Ideas about resurrection had been developing for centuries before Jesus’ life, but his followers took them in new directions.
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/ 9 months agoEaster 2024 in the Holy Land: a holiday marked by Palestinian Christian sorrow
A Christian Palestinian human rights scholar who grew up in Bethlehem writes about the special time of Easter, but also about...
