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Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha (front row, left) have been raising their family with interfaith values - her Hindu background and his recent Catholic faith. They appear at many events together, even a public mass, but now, Vance expresses his desire for Usha to convert to Christianity. But did he mean Catholic Christianity or Christian evangelicalism? Hindus and Catholics are left questioning his comment. (Alessandra Benedetti - Corbis / Corbis via Getty Images)

Vance wishes Usha becomes a Christian

Florence Pugh and Cillian Murphy in "Oppenheimer" (Universal Pictures)

Reframing that "Oppenheimer" sex scene

Indian Muslim women participate in a rally to protest against a new citizenship law in Rupahi hat village, east Gauhati, India, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020. The law fast-tracks naturalization for non-Muslim migrants from neighboring Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who are living in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Indian citizenship laws spur uprisings

Alka Kurian - The Conversation

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan; India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Getty/Farooq Naeem/Kiyoshi Ota)

Pakistan PM: India like the Nazis

Eoin Higgins - Common Dreams

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An Indian artisan puts the finishing touches of paint on an idol of elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesh ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Allahabad on September 1, 2016.
The popular eleven-day long Hindu religious festival, Ganesh Chaturthi will be celebrated from September 5-15. / AFP / SANJAY KANOJIA (Photo credit should read SANJAY KANOJIA/AFP/Getty Images) (Afp/getty Images)

Why people are getting mad at an ad

Jeffery D. Long - The Conversation

A partial solar eclipse is seen behind the 9th century Prambanan Temple in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. The rare astronomical event is being witnessed Wednesday along a narrow path that stretches across 12 provinces encompassing three times zones and about 40 million people. (AP Photo/Slamet Riyadi) (AP)

history of eclipses

Roger Culver - The Conversation

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Brendan Gauthier

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"I am a big fan of Hindu"

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Glenn Beck, Cotton Mather, Jenny McCarthy (Reuters/AP/Wikimedia/Chris Keane/Fred Prouser)

Anti-vaxxers, atheism, history

Michael Schulson

Pat Robertson

Robertson praises Jindal

Biswajeet Banerjee, Rajesh Kumar Singh

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