The remnants of one of the nation's oldest Black churches have just been found The discovery of the First Baptist Church in Colonial WIlliamsburg comes as the living history museum is reckoning with its storytelling about the country's origins and the role of Black Americans. The Associated Press
Religious Exemptions To Vaccine Mandates Present A Dilemma For Employers With a vaccine mandate coming to businesses with over 100 employees, lots of workers opposed to the shots are looking into how to request religious exemptions — putting their employers in a quandary. Shannon Bond
Rev. Rose Okeno's Historic Ordination Adds To Women's Progress In Kenya Rev. Rose Okeno is the first woman elected as a full Anglican bishop in Kenya. Her ordination defies a church movement that put a moratorium on female bishops.
An Ancient Tablet, Stolen Then Acquired By Hobby Lobby, Will Be Returned To Iraq Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, it was looted from Iraq and made its way through several hands before Hobby Lobby purchased it for the Museum of the Bible in 2014. James Doubek
A New Law In India Is Making It Harder For Interfaith Couples To Get Married In India, new laws forbid brides or grooms from converting to their spouse's religion. The idea is to halt forced conversions. But they've led to attacks on interfaith couples. Lauren Frayer
Transgender Bishop Steps Into Historic Role In The Evangelical Lutheran Church The Rev. Megan Rohrer will lead one of the church's 65 synods, overseeing nearly 200 congregations in Northern California and northern Nevada. The Associated Press
For Many American Muslims, The Legacy Of 9/11 Lies In The Battle For Civil Rights A Southern California community grapples with the legacy of being secretly surveilled by the FBI. Twenty years later, the matter is a legal fight that has reached the Supreme Court. Leila Fadel
How Surveillance Programs Developed After 9/11 — And How Those Targeted Pushed Back NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Ahmed Mohamed, legal director at the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, about the surveillance of Muslim communities after 9/11. Ashish Valentine
Afghan Women Will Be Banned From Playing Sports, A Taliban Official Says "Islam and the Islamic Emirate do not allow women to play cricket or play the kind of sports where they get exposed," a senior Taliban official said. Bill Chappell
Pope Francis Is Urging The World's Nations To Take In Afghan Refugees "In these tumultuous moments, in which Afghans are seeking refuge ... I pray so that many countries welcome and protect all those seeking a new life," Francis said from St. Peter's Square on Sunday. The Associated Press