{"id":113249,"date":"2026-06-05T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/05\/defense-department-slashes-its-religious-designations-list-from-more-than-200-choices-to-31-ap-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:01:00","slug":"defense-department-slashes-its-religious-designations-list-from-more-than-200-choices-to-31-ap-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/05\/defense-department-slashes-its-religious-designations-list-from-more-than-200-choices-to-31-ap-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Defense Department slashes its religious designations list from more than 200 choices to 31 &#8211; AP News"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiuAFBVV95cUxOREFsR3lfaFgyd2tNbndiajVLNm9oMVpGaWFRSEhnbmMyenVUeDRJbHJaWHh4OEcyQlU2QVRxODJ4dGtSRU9MV2hpYW9UaFVNMmt4aDk4TVZLa0Y3SFRvS3FpYkM3ZFVMZGQ0Q2ZlNWtSa2NVN0RJSGNrczRWUmVMdU1BeXA2ZFRoa280bml1UUdYSzhjdHNwUTNJQ25NaHJUSzdIZzF5QXk3c3h2Zk9nMTFkRXIyRDNQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Defense Department slashes its religious designations list from more than 200 choices to 31<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">AP News<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiggFBVV95cUxNMHdtN3hqT0ltSHBucWdibFFOQ09VTlFjbFRMVGp4bHhUSUM1TU5PZXpKa1lMeUNSVXo5dndSNlIxOHhfQkVoYWYzeTludElIaGpHYUFiOU44UzByNWRWMTY5TWhodHZneHBwUW9QUllYTWVVWlN6YWhaTEQ0c25PcDRn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon Cuts 180 Religious Identities From Military Personnel Records<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The New York Times<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinAFBVV95cUxPb3FrbFNBRXZIVk0tMXl0a3o5Rl9kQUc0M3lRbS03UWdhaGk2Tmg0ZjdzYzltSGhucEs4OElNYk5SX3JiN3N4cGpVLXN2b1ZtS3FOQnFoWGthX2M4NURRYTY1QVllX19EdEt2YTAzX1BJMkNCTDB3cXBBQW1oWm52ck41T3E3UmRTSHNxbDNlclZyNFN1bnZMUjZDQ18?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military&#8217;s Recognized Religion List<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Military.com<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMipAFBVV95cUxOUWFqN2M5Ynp3RzNrclFjeV9HVHBKY1EwWFExNFJiVUR4MlprR2djdEd3WkJldklkaTlNR0tqdXBMSTB2X1RuWkNjNnpNa09aTXpKUV9rQXZvWkxPMHEzb2JqN0xPcUtoUV95QUR2U3p5YXNkU1FUVWFqX3luWS1mMVJiWkdVbzM2Y1FxUFE4b01iaGxBNU1iT2JBNkxkMzNhNlB5OQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Defense Department to drop atheists, pagans, 175 others from list of military faiths<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Religion News Service<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMizAFBVV95cUxOYVF2QlBMU3AwVVJPcHF1ejE1MWRPS2hyUThqRkV6dlNTem45V3poTGQwRGN3bE5WeXRPaDhsUk1sMkxyVW1ycnpRVnRMaEhNdkwyeXFNbmZ5SWdaU2lZMXdxeXhHZlBfV3B1OTh5bVQ1MXB4LXNja3RoRXRLeTc1VE8wUERvU1c5VkpVelN1NFBwSFlEcGRoQXRjTjFCdVJtTG9fU2l3aVg0RHdYV01QQkZYWGZWQUVnSUJRaUtPN0RZN0JUYVgtOUNlc2g?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Hegseth directs DOD to drop hundreds of faiths from recognized religion list<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">USA Today<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Department slashes its religious designations list from more than 200 choices to 31&nbsp;&nbsp;AP News Pentagon Cuts 180 Religious Identities From Military Personnel Records&nbsp;&nbsp;The New&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/06\/05\/defense-department-slashes-its-religious-designations-list-from-more-than-200-choices-to-31-ap-news\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}