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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s newspaper on Thursday praised as a step toward “ethical finance” a deal announced by the Swiss and U.S. governments to settle American demands for the identities of suspected tax dodgers. L’Osservatore Romano said the deal marks “significant progress in the fight against tax evasion and in the direction of a…

DES MOINES, Iowa – A dispute about bus advertisements seeking to publicize atheist views has touched off a free speech debate after the signs were torn down – then posted again – on the sides of Des Moines city buses. The ads, sponsored by the Iowa Atheists & Freethinkers, pictured white puffy clouds against a…

(RNS) Atheists, agnostics or otherwise nonreligious people can be just as content and well-adjusted as their religious counterparts, according to a new study. “The common assumption of greater religiosity relating to greater happiness and satisfaction is overly simplistic,” said Luke Galen, an associate professor of psychology at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich., and…

(RNS) The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has put India on its `watch list,’ citing the country’s “inadequate” response to recent waves of violence toward religious minorities. While there has been a “disturbing increase in communal violence” in India, “the government’s response… has been found to be largely inadequate and the national government has…
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