religion and politics

By DEEPA BHARATH - Associated Press CHENNAI, India (AP) — Despite India’s millennia-old history of nonreligious movements, most atheists and rationalists choose to keep quiet about their…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing…

By JOCELYN NOVECK - AP National Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Patrisse Cullors was sitting at a table outside the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, the art collective she co-founded in Inglewood, California, taking…

By DEEPA BHARATH - Associated Press United States Catholic bishops have issued guidelines that seek to stop Catholic hospitals from providing gender transition care, a move LGBTQ advocates say could…

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content.(THE CONVERSATION) In 2022, Republican politicians proposed over 150 bills limiting trans rights in…

By MEG KINNARD and STEVE PEOPLES - Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Few have navigated the turbulent politics of the Trump era like Nikki Haley.In early 2016, the then-South Carolina governor…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military would be rescinded under the annual defense bill heading for a…

By EDNA TARIGAN, MARIAM FAM and DAVID CRARY - Associated Press YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s home to many universities, is a small boarding…

By SARA BURNETT - Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Legislation that ensures same-sex and interracial marriages are recognized as legal unions appears headed for final approval and President Joe Biden's…

By TOM DAVIES - Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's Republican attorney general can keep investigating an Indianapolis doctor who spoke publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old…