Meet the straight woman arranging same-sex marriages in India
Source: NBC News By Priti Salian “When I first saw him at the airport, I was unable to control my emotions,” recalled Amar, referring to the moment he met his […]
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Trinidad and Tobago Catholics aid Venezuelan migrants amid government crackdown
Source: Religion News Service BY Melissa Williams-Sambrano PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (RNS) — Yesenia Gonzalez immigrated to Trinidad and Tobago, the twin island Caribbean nation, from Venezuela 40 […]
Evangelicals visit West Bank to see life — and Christian faith — on the other side
Source: Religion News Service NABI SALEH, West Bank (RNS) — Bassem and Nariman Tamimi’s squat but expansive one-story home of stucco and tile sits near the highest point of the […]
Jail urged for Archbishop Philip Wilson despite poor health
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald By Sam Rigney The only way to send a clear message to powerful religious organisations about institutional concealment of child sexual abuse is to send […]
Evangelical Christians step up abortion clinic protests in Queensland
Source: The Guardian BY Ben Smee An evangelical group has ramped up demonstrations outside several Brisbane abortion clinics as Queensland prepares to reform its 1899 laws that make abortion a […]
Church suspends talks to ease Nicaragua political crisis
Source: Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s Roman Catholic hierarchy has suspended a dialogue with the government aimed at ending a two-month political crisis. The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua […]
Hundreds of members at Sessions’s church write formal complaint over immigration policy
Source: The Hill By Brooke Seipel More than 600 members of the United Methodist Church signed on to a letter Monday condemning Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the Trump administration’s […]
Why many white evangelicals are not protesting family separations on the U.S. border
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein and Julie Zauzmer At pulpits across the country, pastors, priests, rabbis and imams delivered impassioned sermons over the weekend, fiercely denouncing the morality of […]
Your iPhone Will Soon Send Your Exact Location to First Responders When You Call 911
Source: Time By Ciara Nugent June 18, 2018 iPhones will soon automatically share your location with first responders when you call 911, thanks to a new partnership between Apple and […]
Thousands of Migrant Children Are Being Separated From Their Families at the Border. Here’s How to Help Them
Source: Time By Alix Langone Nearly 2,000 migrant children have been separated from their parents at the border as part of the Trump administration’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy on border […]
Berlin’s liberal mosque marks 1-year anniversary
Source: DW In the year since its foundation, Berlin’s liberal mosque has established itself and is attracting ever greater interest. But lawyer Seyran Ates, who opened the mosque, lives with […]
Cyclists Retrace Jewish Child Refugees’ Journey to Britain
Source: US News By MIRIAM KAROUT, Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Almost 80 years after the first “Kindertransport” evacuations of Jewish children to safety in Britain, 42 people set […]
Philippine lawyer finds unlikely ally in Duterte in fight to legalise gay marriage
Source: The Guardian BY Carmela Fonbuena in Manila In the Philippines, where Catholicism is dominant and divorce is still illegal, a young atheist, openly gay lawyer is leading a historic […]
Erdogan’s Plan to Raise a ‘Pious Generation’ Divides Parents in Turkey
Source: The New York Times By Carlotta Gall June 18, 2018 ISTANBUL — Public schools are closing, on little or no notice, and being replaced by religious schools. Exams are […]
Papal envoy asks forgiveness in divided Chilean diocese
Source: Associated Press OSORNO, Chile (AP) — A papal emissary asked forgiveness Sunday from Roman Catholics in a region of Chile where people bitterly protested a now-resigned bishop who had […]
Jewish artifacts disappear from Damascus in fog of Syria war
Source: Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Jewish artifacts, including ancient parchment torahs from one of the world’s oldest synagogues, have gone missing from the Syrian capital amid the tumult of […]
Afghan Sikh leader holds out hope for dwindling minority
Source: Associated Press By RAHIM FAIEZ KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Avtar Singh Khalsa will represent Afghanistan’s tiny Sikh and Hindu minority in the next parliament, where he says he hopes […]
Far from home, Rohingya Muslim refugees count their blessings at Eid
Source: Religion News Service BY Priyadarshini Sen KOLKATA (RNS) — Last year, Hasan Sharif, a 27-year-old Rohingya, observed Eid al-fitr while hiding from Myanmar soldiers in a stranger’s home. His […]
Pope Francis says abortion to avoid birth defects is similar to Nazi crimes
Source: CNN By Hilary Clarke, Valentina DiDonato and Carol Jordan (CNN)Pope Francis compared having an abortion to avoid birth defects to the Nazi era idea of trying to create a […]
Deadly explosions rock Nigerian community amid Eid celebrations
Source: CNN By Bukola Adebayo, CNN Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Twin bomb blasts at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 20 people and wounded scores more, local police told CNN. […]