Topic: Religion — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-02 07:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Milwaukee Brewers’ Christian Yelich hits a two-run RBI single during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)
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[2026-04-02 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Kaikatty Knight Riders team emerged victorious beating Kaikatty Eagles Wings team by four wickets in the final of the seventh Kaikatty Premier League (KPL) 2026 limited eight-over-a side cricket tournament organised by the KKR organisation, Sammanthurai and conducted at the Sammanthurai Public ground on March 25 and 26 in celebration of Eid-ul-Fitr.
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[2026-04-02 00:20 UTC+10:00] [Latest Stories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has wrapped up its voters’ registration drive in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) with over 160,000 registrations, which surpassed its target of 150,000.
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[2026-04-02 00:10 UTC+10:00] [Education Bureau] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Co-founder Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod accuses school management of creating ‘risk of leadership interruption’
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[2026-04-01 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Una representación de Jesús en un ensayo para la procesión de Viernes Santo por parte del grupo juvenil católico Corpus Christi, en Miami, Florida, el 23 de marzo del 2026. (AP foto/Marta Lavandier)
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[2026-04-01 19:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente José Antonio Kast saluda en el Palacio de La Moneda un día después de su investidura en Santiago, Chile, el jueves 12 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Esteban Félix)
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[2026-04-01 19:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast and his wife Maria Pia Adriasola greet supporters at the Santiago Cathedral after attending Mass in Santiago, Chile, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)
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[2026-04-01 19:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Spain’s coach Luis de la Fuente reacts during the international friendly soccer match between Spain and Egypt in Barcelona , Spain, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)
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[2026-04-01 19:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: OUR Market successfully concluded its third school visit for the OMG Campus Tour at St. Paul College Pasig (SPCP) on Feb. 9, 2026, attracting over 700 students to join the platform. The one-day event simultaneously conducted a hands-on chocolate-making workshop featuring Chef Christian Valdes, founder and head chocolatier of CMV Txokolat, and a sponsors’ fair with Evian, Barilla, Ceres, Australia’s Own, Philadelphia, and Selecta.
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[2026-04-01 14:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: USA’s Christian Pulisic (10) moves against Portugal’s Joao Cancelo during the first half of an international friendly soccer match, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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[2026-04-01 12:18 UTC+10:00] [Middle East] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
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[2026-04-01 12:07 UTC+10:00] [USA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Christian Pulisic struggled in more attacking role
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[2026-04-01 08:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV has called on US President Donald Trump to find an “off-ramp” to end the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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[2026-04-01 08:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: New York Police Department Officer Jonathan Diller is on a screen during his funeral service at Saint Rose of Lima R.C. Church in Massapequa Park, N.Y., March 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon, File)
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[2026-04-01 07:40 UTC+10:00] [Latest Stories] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Inquirer
Snippet: COTABATO CITY—An independent monitoring group has warned anew against a renewed spiral of violence in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the run-up to the regional parliamentary elections in September this year.
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[2026-04-01 07:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV expressed hope that the US-Israel war on Iran could be finished before Easter in remarks to reporters as he left the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo outside of Rome on Tuesday.
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[2026-04-01 07:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV talks to journalists as he leaves his residence in Castel Gandolfo, on the outskirts of Rome, to return to the Vatican, Tuesday, March 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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[2026-04-01 06:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: Oluvil Eastern Warriors Sports Clubbeat ArafaSports Club, Nintavur by 03 runs in the final to emerge champions and bagged the ‘Eid Festival Champion Trophy-2026’ of the eight-a- side limited over cricket tournament played at the Sammanthurai Public Play Grounds recently.
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[2026-04-01 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: ALMEIDA – RALPH – Beloved husband of Sarojini Almeida (nee de Mel), darling father of Shiran, Sureeni and Sharika, father-in-law of Manoja, Pritha Fernando and Dr. Rajiv Samarasingha, loving grandfather of Akila, Dr. Amila, Mariah, Priveen, Sureshni, Shenali and Cheruni. Cortege leaves 47/3, Uyana Road, Lunawa, Moratuwa at 3.30 p.m.
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[2026-04-01 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People greet and take photos with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a Ramadan Iftar hosted by his team at the New York Taxi Workers Association, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
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[2026-04-01 04:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Finnish Supreme Court has found Christian Democrat MP and former cabinet minister Paivi Rasanen guilty of “insulting homosexuals” in a 2004 church pamphlet, in which she described gays as having a developmental disorder.
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[2026-04-01 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Bestselling author Vice President JD Vance is returning to craft that catapulted him to national fame, announcing a new book due in late spring that reflects on his religious journey.
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[2026-04-01 03:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: PADRE BURGOS, Southern Leyte — A festive atmosphere pervaded in Limasawa, Southern Leyte, on Tuesday, as the island town marked the 505th anniversary of the first Catholic Mass in the country.
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[2026-04-01 02:14 UTC+10:00] [Christian counsellor] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The justices agreed the law raises free speech concerns and sent it back to a lower court to decide if it meets a legal standard
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[2026-04-01 01:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem, has been the subject of a wave of global sympathy after Israeli forces stopped him on the way to pray at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday.
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[2026-04-01 01:35 UTC+10:00] [US supreme court] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Court in 8-1 decision sides with Christian counselor who argues law banning the practice violates first amendment
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[2026-04-01 01:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a Colorado law restricting licensed mental health professionals from performing voluntary conversion therapy to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of minors.
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[2026-04-01 00:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has signed into law a new provision increasing the punishment for homosexuality in the largely Muslim West African nation, the latest African country to impose harsher penalties against the LGBTQ+ community.
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[2026-04-01 00:37 UTC+10:00] [Art and design] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: View image in fullscreenCalifornia, USA nasturtium blooms in a suburban garden in Placentia Photograph: Bruce Chambers/Zuma Press Wire/ShutterstockShareView image in fullscreenBeirut, LebanonA family shelters in a tent at a temporary encampment for displaced people, amid escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah Photograph: Raghed Waked/ReutersShareView image in fullscreenGranada, SpainPenitents of the Trabajo y Luz (Work and Light) religious brotherhood take part in a procession as part of Holy Week celebrationsPhotograph: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty ImagesShareView image in fullscreenPrayagraj, IndiaA farmer carries animal fodder
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[2026-04-01 00:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israeli-US strikes have hit one of Iran’s largest pharmaceutical companies in Tehran, which produces anaesthetics and cancer drugs, the Iranian government said.
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[2026-04-01 00:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: FILE _ Vice President JD Vance speaks, March 18, 2026, in Auburn Hills, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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[2026-03-31 23:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and personal lawyer to US President Donald Trump, has said that the king of England might be a Muslim and that Muslims "wanna take over" Britain, calling the Quran a "cult of death".
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[2026-03-31 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: It didn’t take long into the 21st century comics-cinema craze for the reluctant superhero to become an overfamiliar type. As early as X-Men, way back in the year 2000, Hugh Jackman was making Wolverine’s resistance to joining a super-team relatable and understandable. In the modern comics and on film, being Batman isn’t depicted as especially fun, something Christian Bale expanded upon in the Dark Knight trilogy.
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[2026-03-31 22:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre stands at the heart of Christian worship. It is the site for commemorating the crucifixion and resurrection.
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[2026-03-31 22:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: In Jerusalem, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre stands at the heart of Christian worship. It is the site for commemorating the crucifixion and resurrection.
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[2026-03-31 21:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Old City in occupied East Jerusalem is home to some of the world’s most important religious sites for Muslims, Christians and Jews.
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[2026-03-31 18:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US-Israeli strikes damaged a religious site in Zanjan in Iran's northwest, the Fars news agency reported.
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[2026-03-31 18:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Local Spain
Snippet: White House says it doesn't need Spain after airspace closure to US military, Spain's Catholic Church signs deal to compensate abuse victims and more news on Tuesday March 31st.
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[2026-03-31 15:45 UTC+10:00] [World / Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: London: Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will not join the royal family for the traditional Easter Sunday church service in Windsor, England, in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal engulfing their parents.
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[2026-03-31 15:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Jaden Ivey called the Bulls “liars” after the team waived him on Monday for “conduct detrimental to the team” following an Instagram livestream where he criticized the NBA’s support of Pride Month.
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[2026-03-31 11:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Jaden Ivey, de los Bulls de Chicago, calienta previo al juego de baloncesto de la NBA en contra de los Raptors de Toronto, el jueves 19 de febrero de 2026, en Chicago. (AP Foto/Erin Hooley, Archivo)
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[2026-03-31 11:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Chicago Bulls guard Jaden Ivey warms up before an NBA basketball game against the Toronto Raptors, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)
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[2026-03-31 09:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Bulls are cutting bait with Jaden Ivey, waiving the guard following comments on social media livestreams against the LGBTQ and the Catholic church.
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[2026-03-31 07:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Monday that it had expressed its "regrets" to Israel's ambassador over an attempt to stop the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from accessing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday.
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[2026-03-31 06:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Daily News
Snippet: AMERASINGHE – INDRA – Beloved wife of the late Cecil, loving mother of Nishan and Eva and of Dulshika and Sheahan, precious grandmother of Druvinka, Chevaan and Dihane, loving sister of the late Allan, Ranjini and Eulalie. Remains will lie at the residence from 7.30 a.m. – 10.30 a.m. on Wednesday 1st April 2026.
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[2026-03-31 06:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: West Contra Costa Unified teachers and supporters march along a picket line as they strike outside of El Cerrito High School in El Cerrito, Calif., Dec. 4, 2025. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP, file)
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[2026-03-31 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday expressed "concerns" over Israeli police blocking Jerusalem's Catholic leader from accessing Christianity's holiest site on Palm Sunday.
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[2026-03-31 05:00 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A shortage of practitioners, stonewalling religious medical services and a law barring telehealth are preventing some terminally ill patients from accessing voluntary assisted dying (VAD).
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[2026-03-31 04:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: From left, Luis Arguello, the president of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Angel Gabilondo, the Ombudsman and Felix Bolanos the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with Parliament after the signing of an agreement to provide redress to victims of time-barred abuse in Madrid, Spain, Monday, March 30, 2026. (Alberto Ortega/Europa Press via AP)
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[2026-03-31 04:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Penitents of the ‘Pollinita’ brotherhood, dressed in a typical Apostle costumes pose for a picture ahead the Holy Week procession in Cabra, southern Spain, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
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