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RACHEL LEDOUX

Opinion: How Better Data Could Protect Religious Freedom

The federal government relies on data to understand inequality in America. Race, color, national origin, sex, disability and age are all tracked through major surveys that inform civil rights enforcement and public policy. One protected class, however, remains largely absent from that picture: religion. That gap is not accidental. For

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RACHEL LEDOUX January 22, 2026
CHRIS FARAONE

RECOGNITION FOR RELIGION REPORTING

The kind of deep read that gets people and communities talking while winning awards in the process Congratulations to Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada and Claire Sadar on their receiving an honorable mention in the Associated Church Press Best of the Church Press Awards for the first two installments of their Sacred Writes

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CHRIS FARAONE May 25, 2022
CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA

SACRED SPACES: SPECIAL MOSQUE EDITION

Photo of Nigerian Islamic Society of Massachusetts by Derek Kouyoumjian While many Christians have been pushed out of their longtime places of worship, Muslims have spent decades configuring residential and commercial buildings The soaring brick facade of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC), nestled between neighboring Roxbury Community

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CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA May 5, 2022
CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA

SPECIAL SEQUEL: DESACRALIZED 

As another historic Black Boston institution is gentrified, a congregation displaced by condos reflects on this trend and what it means BY CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA [Read the first installment of this series] City churches were designed to be walkable and serve their immediate neighborhoods, but as historically working-class

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CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA January 6, 2022
CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA

SPECIAL FEATURE: GREATER BOSTON’S CHURCH TO CONDO PIPELINE

As more and more former Boston churches are being converted into luxury housing, is the city missing out on potential arts and community spaces?

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CLAIRE SADAR AND ALYSSA MALDONADO-ESTRADA October 1, 2021
CLAIRE SADAR

GAINING GROUND

With Islamophobic Trump in rearview, Muslims mobilize politically

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CLAIRE SADAR December 20, 2020
CLAIRE SADAR

BEFORE SUNDAY’S MAJOR BOSTON PROTEST, CLERGY MARCHED TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS

“I see the connection today as the ministers coming together to stand for justice, to stand for unity, to stand for righteousness, as the mighty wind that will transform the state of Massachusetts, the nation of the United States, and the world.” 

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CLAIRE SADAR June 1, 2020
ERIN NOLAN

NUCLEAR DECISIONS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES DON’T ALL AGREE ON

“Right now, we just don’t know what to do with nuclear waste. It lasts 100,000 years … It’s shockingly toxic. We’re going to have to figure out what to do with that waste for sure. I mean, 100,000 years.”

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ERIN NOLAN February 11, 2020
LAURA KIESEL

A DISABLED REPORTER WALKS INTO A DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY EVENT… 

I attended three carefully chosen events with three separate candidates over the course of 24 hours: Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders. All three candidates stood out for me because they have been more actively courting the disability vote, as compared to their peers in the candidate pool. 

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LAURA KIESEL February 11, 2020
JORDAN FRIAS

“HE JUST NEEDS TO GET KNOWN”: PATRICK SUPPORTERS IN NH HAVE EYES SET ON OTHER STATES

“I know his polling numbers are low. My hope is as time goes on he’s able to build some momentum and potentially be a viable candidate.”

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JORDAN FRIAS February 11, 2020
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