Vol. 1, No. 61
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Faith & Religion is American Courant's coverage of religious life as a real social force in American and global public events — not as a culture-war prop and not as a one-dimensional voting bloc. We cover the major American religious traditions and their institutions: the Catholic Church (including the U.S. bishops and the Vatican), the Protestant denominations and evangelical movements, Judaism across its movements, Islam in the United States and abroad, Eastern Orthodoxy, the Latter-day Saints, and the rapidly growing share of Americans who describe themselves as religiously unaffiliated.
We cover religious leaders, controversies, court cases over religious liberty, and the points where religious identity intersects with U.S. politics, foreign policy, and education. Where a religion story is really a politics or courts story, we cross-link to politics; where it's really an international story (a Vatican statement, a conflict abroad with religious dimensions, persecution of religious minorities overseas), see world news; where it touches culture and media, see culture and media.
Articles cite primary statements — papal encyclicals and Vatican press office releases, denominational and ecumenical body statements, court filings in religious-liberty and First Amendment cases, official congregational data, and Pew Research Center surveys of American religious identity — so the framing rests on documented sources rather than on the latest social-media reaction.
Over 1.6 million pilgrims reached Arafat for the spiritual peak of Hajj — the first wartime pilgrimage in Saudi history, under missile shields and 47°C heat.
Pope Leo XIV's first Urbi et Orbi address was, by tradition, a tour of the world's wars. He delivered the call for peace. He did not deliver the catalog. The omission is the most-discussed line of the early papacy.
