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The Washington Post's Acts of Faith offers breaking and ongoing news, analysis and opinion about major religion stories.

If we value all members of our community -- single or married, parents or not -- we must reflect that in our actions.

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When she died on Easter Sunday at 92, she was the only woman in the history of broadcast television who had founded and led a cable network as CEO and show host for 20 years.

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Highlights

Why the iconic Virgin of Charity means so much to Cubans and Pope Francis

Pope Francis will celebrate the first papal Mass in her shrine outside Santiago on Tuesday.

I do not believe that we can think ourselves into health. But I do believe that principles of mind and spirit exist that we have not even begun to scientifically map in the West.

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The debate about how to commemorate an ancient Jewish ghetto seems very contemporary.

  • Anna Momigliano
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My cancer was in my shoulder. Iraq's cancer is people's total lack of trust in one another. Can hope and prayer affect the disease?

  • Chris Seiple
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At the Basilica of the National Shrine this Holy Week, a quiet revolution on display.

  • Sarah Posner
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My daughters' interfaith relationship taught me a lot about my own.

  • Susan Sommercamp
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Next week, Lizzy will get to meet Pope Francis.

The normally raucous and joyful holiday passed in quiet reflection in Brussels, following Tuesday's terrorist attacks. But in Paris, where terrorists struck just months earlier, the party went on as planned.

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A Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week has grown into a quiet man who has a positive effect on others and bears little resemblance to the teenager who helped beat a man to death two decades ago, his lawyers argue.

The Latest on the clemency hearing for a Georgia death row inmate scheduled to be executed this week (all times local):

Justices seem to seek compromise in birth control case

Two Republican governors. Two proposals at the heart of LGBT rights. One rejection. One new law.

A former Fort Bragg soldier has been sentenced to 30 years in military prison for the 2014 killing of his Panamanian girlfriend.

The Archdiocese of New York is auctioning off one of two vehicles Pope Francis used during his trip to New York City in September.

The Latest on a new law in North Carolina that critics have called discriminatory (all times local):

Two Mormon missionaries wounded in a bombing attack at the Brussels airport have returned to Utah to receive treatment in their home state.

A former Catholic priest accused of snapping hundreds of inappropriate pictures of students at his parish school is heading to federal prison for nearly three years.

Asked to choose between a Christian spirit of peace and a “God-given right” of self-defense, Mississippi senators Tuesday overwhelmingly favored the latter.

The Latest on the Georgia governor’s veto of a religious exemptions bill (all times local):

Conservative groups accused Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal of turning his back on people of faith by vetoing a “religious freedom” bill and vowed Tuesday to keep up the fight for years to come.

In many countries across Asia, governments are growing less tolerant of critical reporting, even arresting journalists and closing media outlets in some cases. In China, authorities recently removed an online story from a financial magazine about censorship — a taboo topic — while Thailand’s military junta has detained journalists for what it calls “attitude adjustment” and shut down TV and radio stations.

Montenegro authorities have deported 58 foreigners, including 43 Russians, associated with a religious cult.

Social conservatives accused Gov. Nathan Deal of bowing to pressure of big businesses.

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