Source: Time By LESLIE JAMISON Leslie Jamison is the author, most recently, of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath. The second time I got sober, I started praying with a sense of […]
Source: The New York Times BY DAVID M. HALBFINGER and IYAD ABUHEWEILA JERUSALEM — In Gaza City, pickup trucks and motorized rickshaws busily ferried piles of tires toward the border fence with […]
Source: The Guardian By Jessica Elgot Political correspondent Cross-party group says some posts incite violence and should be urgently investigated Lord Sugar, a signatory to the letter to Scotland Yard, has been […]
Source: Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Civil society and rights groups in Myanmar said Facebook has failed to adequately act against online hate speech that incites violence against the country’s […]
Source: Associated Press By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department has agreed not to conduct surveillance based on religion or ethnicity and to listen to […]
Source: Religion News Service By Aziza Kasumov LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Stephen Han’s sermon has the cadence of a TED Talk. Wearing jeans and a loose button-up shirt, he paces energetically […]
Source: NPR BY ESTHER HONIG Wearing a heavy smock and rubber boots, Amadedin Eganwa stands over a large conveyor belt that’s carrying unconscious lambs. He faces east, toward Mecca, gently lifts […]
Source: The New York Times By ADAM NOSSITER El Hadi Doudi, an imam who preaches a fundamentalist form of Islam, at a courthouse in Marseille, France, in February. The French government […]
Source: BBC News Family pressure has fuelled a sense of persecution felt by gay people in Chechnya, a mainly Muslim region in southern Russia. Dozens have fled and some have […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DALIA FAHMY A woman prays at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) In many parts of the world, women […]
Source: ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES BY John Boyle, jboyle@citizen-times.com The statistics are daunting, particularly when it comes to the “nones.” Fewer younger people, particularly Millennials, attend church or believe in God, and they’re less likely […]
Reuters International This content was published on April 6, 2018 Palestinians gather at the Israel-Gaza border during a protest demanding the right to return to their homeland, east […]