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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pentagon officials reversed course on Monday and announced an update to a list of officially recognized religions that service ...

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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 ...