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 ...

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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 ...

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 seal is seen on a podium at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, in Washington, before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) Military.com has learned that the ...

(RNS) — The Department of Defense is substantially reducing the number of religions it officially recognizes, reportedly excluding atheists, pagans, humanists and New Age faiths, an independent ...

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The Department of Defense moved this week to dramatically reduce the number of recognized religions, faiths and belief systems from more than 200 all the way to 31. The move was announced to troops in ...

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 ...

The USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) arrives in Singapore on May 24, 2024, during a tour of the Indo-Pacific. The Pacific ...

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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 ...