A prayer festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC was partially organized and funded by the federal government. Its evangelical messaging called for more religion in politics not less. Critics are concerned about an erosion of the wall between church and state. NPR's Emily Feng went to the event to understand the audience and appetite for this approach.
In this week's Cineplexity, where we examine life's complexities by talking about cinema, we're taking on the best and worst of the beloved trope of "weddings in the movies."
Thousands of Chinese-born Uyghur fighters fled China to fight in the Syrian civil war. They say generations of political persecution in China motivated them to take up arms.