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Religion

Why I Risked Prison to Keep the Uyghur Culture Alive

Abduweli Ayup
photography by Lisa Ross

One man’s journey from China to the U.S. and back again

  • Asia
  • China
  • Culture
  • Language
  • Religion

Translingual

Eliane Brum

A Brazilian journalist on her government's inability to hear Indigenous voices

  • Amazon
  • Brazil
  • South America
  • Culture
  • Indigenous
  • Journalism
  • Language
  • Religion

The Amazon River Travelers

photography by Kike Arnal

Portraits from the rainforest's main thoroughfare

  • Amazon
  • South America
  • Climate
  • Nature
  • Photography
  • Refugees
  • Religion
  • Travel
  • Water

On the Water

Kira Brunner Don
photography by Kike Arnal

The people you meet on a cargo-passenger ship through the rainforest

  • Amazon
  • South America
  • Climate
  • Nature
  • Refugees
  • Religion
  • Travel
  • Water

The Calling

Angela Makholwa

The growing popularity of a spiritual past

  • Africa
  • Johannesburg
  • South Africa
  • Religion
  • Spirituality

Point of No Return

Niall McKay
photography by Jill Quigley

Abuses by the Catholic Church are driving even the faithful away

  • Europe
  • Ireland
  • Criminal justice
  • Religion

Readings

Conflict with Tradition

  • Africa
  • Nigeria
  • Culture
  • Religion

Lalibela: Under Repair

James Jeffrey

Locals decry renovation delays in Ethiopia's "new Jerusalem"

  • Africa
  • Ethiopia
  • Conservation
  • History
  • Religion

The 13th Century City of Coexistence

Casey O’Brien

Granada's stunning sites showcase a time and place when Christians, Muslims and ethnic minorities lived side by side

  • Europe
  • Granada
  • Spain
  • Culture
  • Religion

Dancing the Diaspora

Yeye Luisah Teish

How West African spiritual practices withstood colonialism

  • Africa
  • Global
  • Diaspora
  • Indigenous
  • Religion
  • Spirituality

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