Russia Jehovah’s Witnesses banned after they lose appeal
Source: BBC News Russia’s Supreme Court has ordered the disbanding of the Jehovah’s Witnesses on Russian territory. The ban came into effect after the court rejected an appeal by the […]
Man sues Boston archdiocese citing sex abuse at orphanage
Source: Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A New York man is suing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston for sexual abuse he says he suffered decades ago at a church-affiliated […]
Pence roots administration’s support for Israel in faith
Source: Religion News By Lauren Markoe | 13 hours ago WASHINGTON (RNS) — Vice President Mike Pence told evangelical supporters of Israel that God had a hand in creating the state of Israel […]
Assisted suicide is legal and available in D.C. — for now
Source: The Washington Post By Fenit Nirappil July 17 at 6:16 PM District officials say doctors in the city may now begin the process of prescribing life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients, […]
Gorsuch can’t escape travel ban at San Francisco meeting
Source: Associated Press By SUDHIN THANAWALA SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court couldn’t escape discussion of the president’s travel ban — and even […]
Boston Launches Anti-Islamophobia Poster Campaign
Source: NPR By CAMILA DOMONOSKE The city of Boston is launching a new poster campaign to fight Islamophobia by encouraging bystanders to intervene, in a non-confrontational way, if they witness anti-Muslim harassment. Starting Monday, the city began installing 50 posters around the city with advice on what to do […]
Saudi Arabia investigates video of woman in miniskirt
Source: BBC News The authorities in Saudi Arabia are investigating a young woman who posted a video of herself wearing a miniskirt and crop-top in public. The woman, a model […]
Justine Damond’s fiance ‘heartbroken’ over police shooting
Source: BBC News The “heartbroken” American fiancé of an Australian shot dead by a US police officer has said they have received almost no information from officials. Don Damond said his wife-to-be, Justine Damond, was gunned down after calling police to report a possible sexual assault in their quiet neighbourhood. […]
A Growing List of Accidents Is Putting Safety at Amusement Parks Under the Spotlight
Source: Time BY Kevin Lui What’s happening with thrill rides? The weekend roller coaster collision in Spain that left 33 people injured — including kids — is just the latest reminder that your trip […]
Junior soldier shoots Indian Army superior dead over ‘mobile phone confiscation’ in Kashmir
Source: Arab News DUBAI: A junior soldier in the Indian Army on Tuesday shot dead a superior officer after he was allegedly told to stop using his mobile phone. The junior soldier was based in Jammu and Kashmir’s Uri sector when Major Shikhar Thapa, who belonged to the 71 Armored […]
Anti-Muslim incidents soar in US
Source: Arab News Anti-Muslim hate crimes in the US have nearly doubled in the first half of 2017, increasing by 91 percent compared to the same time in 2016, according to a report published by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The spike marked a sizeable increase on 2016, which […]
USA: Florida Youth Pastor Busted with 350,000 images of minors
July 14, 2017 by Michael Stone 41 Comments A Florida youth pastor is under arrest after hundreds of thousands of sexually explicit pictures and videos of young girls were found on his laptop. 36-year-old Chad Robison, youth pastor and music director of Seven River Presbyterian Church in Lecanto, Florida, is under arrest after a coworker […]
Macron outshines Merkel as EU’s top diplomat
Source: The Local Germany has for years longed for a stronger French partner, but may have got more than it bargained for as the self-confident Emmanuel Macron takes Europe’s spotlight. Striking images from Paris this week offered signs of how Europe’s de-facto leadership has started to mutate in the two […]
‘Enormous rise’ in girls threatened with genital mutilation in Germany
Source: The Local There are currently more than 13,000 girls in Germany whose families plan to have them circumcised – an increase of 4,000 over last year – women’s rights group Terre des Femmes claims. “Due to the arrival of migrants from countries such as Eritrea, Somalia and Iraq, we […]
Muslim woman banned from divorcing husband while wearing headscarf
Source: The Local A court in eastern Germany has told a Syrian woman that she is not allowed to appear in court for divorce proceedings against her husband unless she takes off her headscarf, Tagesspiegel reports. The woman’s lawyer received a letter from the presiding judge at the district court […]
49 members of the Catholic Church are accused
Source: BBC Some 49 members of the Catholic Church are accused of carrying out the abuse between 1945 and the early 1990s, according to the report’s findings. Victims said the experience was like “a prison, hell and a concentration camp”. A 2016 report into the allegations said that 231 children […]
UK: NSS claimed Saudi Arabia was the chief foreign promoter of Islamist extremism in the UK
Posted: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 11:00http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2017/07/nss-joins-calls-for-inquiry-into-funding-of-islamist-extremism The National Secular Society has joined calls for a public inquiry into the funding of Islamist extremism in Britain after a damning investigation by a prominent think tank. In a report published yesterday, the Henry Jackson Society said there was “a growing body of evidence” that […]
North Carolina man cheats death after 40 minutes with no pulse
Source:BBC A North Carolina man whose heart stopped for about 40 minutes has paid tribute to the emergency workers who brought him back from the dead. John Ogburn, 36, suffered a cardiac arrest while working on his laptop near his Charlotte home on 26 June. Two police officers who happened to be […]
Saudi Arabia investigates video of woman in miniskirt
Source: BBC The authorities in Saudi Arabia are investigating a young woman who posted a video of herself wearing a miniskirt and crop-top in public.The woman, a model called “Khulood”, shared the clip of her walking around a historic fort in Ushayqir. The footage sparked a heated debate on social media, […]
Malala gets her own Twitter account and these are her first tweets
Source: The Daily Times By Farhan Janjua Nobel Peace Prize winner education activist Malala Yousafzai has joined the microblogging site Twitter on Friday, she announced by saying “Hi, Twitter.” Malala’s […]