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(RNS) — The president of Hamline University, who was widely criticized for her response to an art history professor who showed students a painting of the Prophet Muhammad, announced Monday

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(RNS) — In July 1893, a young Hindu monk from Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, came to the United States. His goal was to make the West aware of Hinduism, one