Philippines: Duterte confirms he personally killed three men
Source: BBC The President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has confirmed to the BBC that he shot dead three men while mayor of Davao. He said: “I killed about three […]
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Corpus Christi, Texas, residents warned to avoid tap water
Source: BBC Residents of a Texas city have been warned by officials not to drink or bathe in the tap water because of a chemical contamination. Wednesday’s advisory applies to […]
Aleppo Syria battle: Evacuation of rebel-held east
Source: BBC Hundreds of people have been evacuated in buses and ambulances from a besieged rebel-held enclave in the Syrian city of Aleppo. The International Committee of the Red Cross […]
Israel settlers reject relocation offer as eviction looms
Source: Yahoo News By Mike Smith Amona Outpost (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – Residents of a wildcat Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday rejected a proposal to leave […]
Swiss high court slaps down effort to ban university’s Islamic centre
Source: Reuters By John Miller | ZURICH Switzerland’s highest court on Wednesday blocked efforts to ban a state-funded Islamic-focused academic centre at a Swiss university, ruling that an anti-immigration political […]
France will soon have a new crime: online obstruction of abortion
Source: RNS By Tom Heneghan (RNS) France will soon create a new crime that will make someone running an anti-abortion website as liable to a lawsuit as a protester blocking the door […]
French Terrorism Suspects Appeared Anything But
Source: The New York Times By ADAM NOSSITER STRASBOURG, France — One was a well-liked elementary school assistant. Another was a hard-working cargo handler. The third was a friendly grocer. […]
Religion News: New hotels won’t carry religious books
Source: Sun Times The world’s largest hotel company will no longer place Bibles or the Book of Mormon in rooms of its newly constructed and to-be constructed hotels. In its […]
Rex Tillerson, Establishment Protestant secretary of state
Source: RNS By Mark Silk It is amusing, if you’re into gallows humor, to find Family Research Council Tony Perkins with his knickers in a twist over President-elect Donald Trump’s […]
Criminal penguins steal stones?
Source: BBC By Matt Walker 15 December 2016 Watch the moment when Sir David Attenborough and BBC filmmakers filmed the extraordinary tricks some penguins play on each other. Even better, […]
Woman has baby using ovary frozen in childhood
Source: BBC By Fergus WalshMedical correspondent Image copyrightFERGUS WALSHImage captionMoaza gave birth to a healthy boy after her fertility was restored using frozen tissue A woman has given birth in London […]
Aleppo battle: Raids on Syria city ‘likely a war crime’ UN says
Source: BBC The bombing of the last parts of Aleppo held by rebels is probably a war crime, the UN’s human rights chief says. A deal to evacuate rebel fighters […]
In quest for equal rights, Muslim women win right to enter sacred Indian tomb
Source: RNS By Bhavya Dore MUMBAI, India (RNS) On a recent hot afternoon, more than 200 women walked a winding path to the tomb of the Muslim saint Pir Haji […]
After siege, Aleppo’s famed Umayyad Mosque is damaged but endures
Source: Reuters By Laila Bassam | ALEPPO, SYRIA The remains of the medieval Umayyad Mosque’s felled minaret lie in its once-elegant courtyard along with discarded mattresses, fragments of rockets and […]
Meet the vicar who’s swapping the sacristy for the surgery
Source: The Guardian By Rachel Pugh For rector Sarah Lunn, it’s only a stone’s throw from the small sandstone church of St James to the purpose-built surgery in the tiny Cumbrian […]
Nigerian Christian group slams ‘satanic antics’ of builders, regulators following church collapse
Source: RNS By Ini Ekott ABUJA, Nigeria (RNS) Nigeria’s national Christian umbrella group is criticizing lax enforcement of construction standards in the country following the collapse of a church during an ordination […]
Popular Chinese Muslim website down after posting letter critical of Xi
Source: Reuters By Christian Shepherd | BEIJING A popular website for Chinese Muslims has been inaccessible since Saturday after a critical letter addressed to Chinese President Xi Jinping was posted […]
Why Russia Is Excited About Donald Trump’s Pick for Secretary of State
Source: Time BY Simon Shuster / Berlin Although Vladimir Putin has no shortage of energy executives on his payroll, the Russian President likes to negotiate oil and gas deals personally. He […]
Khizr Khan rose to fame with his emotional pleas against Trump. Now he’s targeting the ‘politics of fear’
Source: Los Angeles Times BY Jaweed Kaleem A group of teens and twentysomethings gathered in a nondescript meeting room at the Long Beach Convention Center, hoping for a chance to say a […]
Outgoing attorney general urges American Muslims to have faith
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail Hauslohner December 12 at 10:40 PM Outgoing Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch on Monday urged Americans, and specifically American Muslims, to have faith and […]