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Wikipedia's article on alms and almsgiving across religious traditions, consulted 2026-08-11.

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Reliability Tier
3
Reliability tier 3: a Wikipedia entry, written and revised by unnamed volunteer editors, suited to an uncontested, easily checked point about a widely practiced religious observance rather than a disputed claim.
Notes
Wikipedia's article on alms, consulted 2026-08-11. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for its comparative survey of almsgiving occasions across Islam's annual zakat and voluntary sadaqah, Jewish tzedakah, the Christian offertory, and Theravada daily versus Japanese weekly or monthly takuhatsu collection, and for its note on pre-packaged alms kits and Hindu satrams (dharamsalas) as modern institutional forms, standard reference facts.
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Wikipedia
Publication Year
2026
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alms
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Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)

This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
  • Practices, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.

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10

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1
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