Source: The New York Times By RORY SMITH LIVERPOOL, England — Mohamed Salah’s routine is familiar now. As the Liverpool Football Club stadium erupts joyously around him, celebrating yet another of […]
Source: Associated Press By TOM ODULA NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Every school day, Abdirizack Hussein Bashir rises at dawn for an eight-kilometer (five-mile) trek through a dangerous forest where he […]
Source: Reuters BANGUI (Reuters) – At least 15 people including a priest were killed and scores wounded in Central African Republic’s capital Bangui on Tuesday when unidentified gunmen attacked a […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — The three whistleblowers in Chile’s sex abuse scandal urged Pope Francis on Wednesday to transform his apology for having discredited them […]
Source: BBC News “It went from crude humour to racial slurs. Awful things were said about rape. Every group was targeted.” Exeter University student Arsalan Motavali is talking about the WhatsApp group he was in with fellow members of the university’s law society. “[The messages] started to get progressively worse […]
Source: BBC News President Donald Trump personally repaid his lawyer the $130,000 that was used to buy an adult film actor’s silence about an alleged affair, his legal aide Rudy […]
Source: Herald Dawn BY Zahra Sabri In a variety of Islamic political contexts around the world today, we see ‘Sufi’ ideas being invoked as a call to return to a deeper, more inward-directed […]
Source: Pacific Standard BY TOM JACOB New research finds that, when evangelical organizations raise their profile by sponsoring a high-profile political campaign, a backlash ensues. (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images) Religion […]
Source: The Washington Post By Louisa Loveluck BEIRUT — A U.S.-backed force in Syria announced Tuesday that it was resuming operations against the Islamic State after an earlier push stalled as fighters […]
Source: The Guardian BY Paul Karp Senior Australian Catholics have warned that marriage equality should not be a matter of “winner takes all” five months after unsuccessfully advocating a no vote […]
Source: Reuters BY Maher Chmaytelli BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki fulfilled his life-long goal of wresting power from the country’s minority Sunnis after the fall of […]
Source: Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A lawyer in Pakistan ended her three-day hunger strike on Wednesday after the country’s top general vowed to redouble efforts to protect the Shiite minority, which has been targeted in a string of attacks by Sunni extremists. Jalila Haider called off her protest […]
Source: DW A new study has found that 54,000 high school students in Germany receive Islam religion lessons — but 10 times as many would be interested. Experts say religion […]
Source: The Guardian Daniel Boffey in Brussels Belgian MPs are taking a major step towards the decriminalisation of abortion after a parliamentary majority emerged in favour of following France and Luxembourg […]
Source: BBC News Remarks by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas about the Holocaust have been condemned as anti-Semitic by Israeli politicians and rights activists. Mr Abbas told a meeting in the […]
Source: The Guardian Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome Question in Rome is now whether Pope Francis is prepared to take tougher action against accused priests Cardinal George Pell leaves Melbourne magistrates court […]
Source: BBC News Cardinal George Pell is expected to face two trials on sexual assault charges, an Australian court has heard. The Vatican treasurer, 76, has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and has strenuously denied any wrongdoing. On Tuesday, a magistrate ordered him to stand trial. The allegations […]
Source: Associated Press By IBRAHIM ABDUL’AZIZ YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — A pair of explosions killed at least 28 worshippers at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria and wounded at least 56 […]
Source: Huffington Post By Mary Papenfuss Actress Roseanne Barr raised the possibility as recently as March that she might run for president — again. Now she’s fantasizing about becoming Israel’s prime […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rowaida Abdelaziz Under President Donald Trump, the United States government has shown an “unprecedented level of government hostility” toward the Muslim religious minority in the country, according to a newly released report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR’s 2018 civil rights report, “Targeted,” disclosed that federal government […]