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New film profiles boxer Pardeep Singh Nagra and his fight for religious freedom
By Simran Jeet Singh — December 4, 2018
(RNS) — When the Canadian Amateur Boxing Association prohibited him from competing because of his beard, this Sikh athlete decided to fight to change the rules.
A bicycle crash leaves me asking, ‘My faith or my health?’
By Simran Jeet Singh — November 19, 2018
(RNS) — When so many Sikhs have given up so much to honor their own identities, it’s hard for me to imagine cutting my beard for something so trivial as a split chin.
The ‘Splainer: Beards, belief and baseball
By Kimberly Winston — October 7, 2014
(RNS) The Supreme Court will decide whether a Muslim inmate can grow a beard. So what does facial hair have to do with religion, anyway? Let us 'Splain ...
Brigham Young and Jesus Christ would break the Mormons’ no-beard rule
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — April 2, 2013
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) If they lived today, nearly half of Mormon church presidents would be forbidden from serving in the faith’s 141 temples worldwide. That’s because being clean-shaven is generally a requirement for men to be Mormon temple workers.
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