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The ultra-Orthodox Jewish subculture is engaging more with the outside world after centuries of separation. Within a minority ...

Wayne Osmond, 73. A singer, guitarist and founding member of the million-album-selling family act The Osmonds, who were known ...

Most people who switch religions do not join another tradition; they leave religion altogether. Christians and Buddhists are ...

Muslims believe in one God, all-powerful and ever present, uncreated, without beginning or end, completely sufficient to ...

Journalists have become used to reporting annual disasters at the hajj, the once-in-a-lifetime trip to Mecca that all Muslims ...

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