Source: Huffington Post But don’t cancel your plans just yet. By Ed Mazza A self-declared Bible “researcher” and conspiracy theorist who has predicted a number of failed doomsday dates is […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla COLBECK FOR GOVERNOR/FACEBOOK State Sen. Patrick Colbeck, a Republican, is vying to be Michigan’s next governor. A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan is facing […]
Source: Huffington Post The push for public theaters is part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s larger package of economic and social reforms. By Carol Kuruvilla A commercial movie theater […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla TONY ANDERSON VIA GETTY IMAGES Almost three-quarters of religious “nones” believe in a higher power of some kind. The Pledge of Allegiance describes the […]
Source: Huffington Post By David Moye A video showing former NFL player Desmond Marrow being violently arrested by police in Henry County, Georgia, is going viral, and one of the […]
Source: The Economist IT IS a problem that arises in every liberal democracy that upholds liberty of belief (and hence, the freedom of religious bodies to manage their own affairs) […]
Source: The New York Times By ELISABETH MALKIN Demonstrators participated in a march against abortion in San Salvador earlier this month.CreditFred Ramos for The New York Times MEXICO CITY — El Salvador’s national legislature adjourned Thursday without voting on proposals to allow exceptions to the country’s total ban on abortion, thwarting […]
Source: The Washington Post By Annie Gowen KOLKATA, India — The 21-year-old Hindu college student was having a quiet breakfast with her mother when her phone pinged with a terrifying message. Her […]
Source: Reuters By Maggie Fick NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities have banned a film that tells the love story of two women on the grounds that it promotes lesbianism but […]
Source: CNN By Munachim Amah, CNN (CNN)A US-owned local radio station has been shut down for insulting women in Rwanda, authorities say. The Amazing Grace Christian Radio, a radio station that […]
Source: Associated Press By SYLVIE CORBET PARIS (AP) — More than 70 countries committed Thursday to bolster efforts in the fight against terrorism financing associated with the Islamic State group and al-Qaida. Participants at an international conference in Paris agreed to “fully criminalize” terror financing through effective and proportionate sanctions […]
Source: Euro News By Damon Embling Amid Europe’s turbulent political landscape, a party – whose aim is to create an Islamic State – is hoping to win seats in Belgium’s October municipal elections. The Islam Party got two members elected in 2012, including one in the Molenbeek area of Brussels. This […]
Source: BBC News The EU police agency Europol says an international operation has struck a major blow against the internet propaganda of the Islamic State group. Cyber specialists in various […]
Source: Associated Press By MARK STEVENSON MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Roman Catholic priest who had been reported kidnapped has been found dead in central Mexico, authorities said Thursday. Prosecutors […]
Source: Religion News Service By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom cited more than two dozen countries as main contributors to an “ongoing downward trend” in religious liberty worldwide and called on the Trump administration to prioritize the release of religious prisoners and assist in […]
Source: BBC News By Sarah Keating 25 April 2018 This story is from an episode of Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4. It was presented by Jane Garvey and produced by Rory […]
Source: Time By MAHITA GAJANAN April 26, 2018 A rise in unmarried parents living together has led to a decline of single motherhood in the U.S., according to a new report. A quarter of parents living together with their children are unmarried, an uptick from 50 years ago when only 7% of […]
Source: The New York Times BERLIN — After an attack on a young man wearing a kipa in a trendy Berlin neighborhood, the leader of Germany’s largest Jewish organization urged Jews to wear baseball caps instead. It was just too dangerous, he said, to walk around openly with a kipa […]
Source: The Washington Post Story by Tamer El-Ghobashy Photos by Alice Martins RAQQA, Syria — Samira al-Nasr has delivered thousands of babies over four decades in the city of Raqqa, but she […]
Source: The New York Times By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO Photo Pope Francis issued an extraordinary apology this month, admitting “grave errors” in how sexual abuse cases had been handled in Chile. CreditMax Rossi/Reuters […]