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  "en": "Does Israel Adesanya Follow A Religion? — MMA News"
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  "ar": "مقالة في موقع «إم إم إيه نيوز» تجمع تصريحات أديسانيا عن الدين: نشأته في أسرة مسيحية، وتساؤله طفلا «من خلق الله؟»، وقوله في بودكاست سنة 2023 إنه لا يتبع أي دين بحماس، مع ميل مسيحي في بعض تغريداته.",
  "en": "MMA News article rounding up Adesanya's public statements on religion: his Christian household upbringing, his childhood question 'who made God?', and his 2023 podcast statement that he does not follow any religion ardently, with a Christian bent noted in some tweets."
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  "title": "Does Israel Adesanya Follow A Religion?",
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  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     2024,
     8,
     12
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  "publisher": "MMA News, 12 August 2024",
  "URL": "https://www.mmanews.com/article/does-israel-adesanya-follow-a-religion",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Secondary sports-news summary of the subject's own public statements, consulted directly on 26 October 2026. It quotes his 2023 IMPAULSIVE podcast remarks (asking at Sunday school, at about seven, 'if God made the world, then who made God?'), reports that he was spotted motivating youth at a church service in 2023, and concludes: 'Adesanya openly follows no religion... He was born in a Christian household and has self-admittedly followed a spiritual path in life.' It names no present-day affiliation for him.",
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 "updated": "2026-10-26",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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