Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month began as a weeklong celebration in 1968. The now month-long observance—from September 15 to October 15—incorporates the independence days of Chile, Costa Rica, El ...

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has revamped a list of religious faiths and traditions it uses to provide services to military members after Mormon Republican lawmakers blasted the agency for not ...

The Pentagon has reduced the number of its official religion categories from 211 to 30. In a May 20 memo titled “Implementation Guidance for Updated Religious Affiliation Codes,” Anthony Tata, the ...

Military.com broke the story of how the department dramatically reduced its religion and belief list by 180. Utah lawmakers were among those expressing discontent with the Department of Defense's new ...

The Pentagon has updated its list of verified religious affiliations for service members used in personnel systems and removed the “Christian” designation from several faiths after facing backlash ...

The Defense Department moved last month to cut roughly 180 religion codes from its previous list of about 220 recognized faiths. The new list, expected to take effect in July, recognizes 31 religious ...

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The Department of Defense has significantly reduced the number of recognized religious affiliation codes used across the military, consolidating roughly 200 categories down to 31 in a broader ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Department of Defense moved this week to dramatically reduce the number of recognized religions, faiths and belief systems ...

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