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Parsifal review – emphasis on family instead of faith highlights reconciliation over redemption

Glyndebourne’s Production of Wagner’s Parsifal Monty Python references aside, putting Wagner’s Parsifal on stage is never straightforward. The most recent production at Glyndebourne, directed by Jetske Mijnssen, steers clear of a lot of the opera’s religious mysticism and leans more into family drama. Set against Ben Baul’s somber backdrop and costume designer Gideon Davy’s button-covered […]

Pope Leo XIV stirred responses from faith leaders throughout the United States.

Following the recent election of Cardinal Robert Prebust as Pope Leo XIV, various faith leaders across the U.S. expressed their thoughts. Jenny Cohn, director of the White House Faith Office, noted President Trump’s sentiment, sharing that it is a significant honor for the country to have the first American pope. She hopes Pope Leo will […]

Less than 50% of Americans have faith in the FDA and CDC to perform their duties.

Federal health organizations, including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), play an essential role in areas like vaccine safety, according to recent polls. Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic began, only 42% of Americans believe these federal health agencies can effectively handle new infection outbreaks. This […]

America’s faith in ‘free trade’ empowered China’s apartheid machine

Like the “free Tibet” campaign in the late 1990s, concerns about China’s Uyghur population have faded into the background. In the mid-2010s, Beijing faced a short-lived wave of international criticism after General Secretary Xi Jinping created a huge network of concentration camps. Approximately 3 million Uyghurs have been detained and exposed to brutality. Republicans who […]

Judge accuses Trump admin of ‘bad faith refusal’ in Abrego Garcia deportation case

A federal judge in Maryland has accused the Trump administration of “willful and malicious refusal” to comply with court orders in cases of illegal immigration, and is suspected of expelling MS-13 gang member Kilmer Abrego Garcia to El Salvador. US district judge Paula Sinis, who was appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama, […]