Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Bob Mims LDS Church President Russell M. Nelson assured throngs of Kenyan Mormons that they share the pioneering spirit of faith with Latter-day Saints who settled Utah’s Salt Lake Valley nearly two centuries ago. “You perhaps don’t think of yourself as pioneers, but you’re […]
Source: Reuters By Maher Chmaytelli, Jeffrey Heller, Stephen Farrell BAGHDAD/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Behind the high concrete walls of Baghdad’s Jewish cemetery, Violette Saul lies at rest under a weathered and cracked tombstone, one of the last memorials to an ancient community that is now all but extinct. A Torah scroll is seen […]
Source: Reuters BY Abraham Achirga, Afolabi Sotunde ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian police fired teargas at hundreds of Shi’ite Muslim protesters on Tuesday during a second day of clashes in the capital Abuja over the imprisonment of their religious leader, Reuters witnesses said. The protesters are demanding the release of Ibrahim Zakzaky, […]
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The father of a terminally ill British toddler met Wednesday with Pope Francis and begged him to make another bid for his son’s life, after an appeals court ruled that the child cannot be taken to Italy for further medical treatment. Francis obliged, […]
Source: The Guardian By Azimazi Mimoh Jimoh (Abuja), Seye Olumide and Chris Irekamba (Lagos) British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has called for same-sex marriage in Nigeria and all other countries within the Commonwealth. At the first joint forum at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Westminster yesterday, the prime minister […]
Source: Associated Press By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday sharply condemned a street assault in Berlin on two young men wearing Jewish skullcaps that […]
Source: The Guardian By Pippa Crerar and Anne Perkins Labour backbenchers among those criticising party leadership in Commons debate Jeremy Corbyn’s backbenchers have rounded on the failure of the party to tackle antisemitism in a blistering three hours that ended with a Labour MP calling closing remarks by the shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, […]
Source: National Geographic Lynsey Addario talks about her experience working within these communities across the U.S. during a years-long reporting project. By Jehan Jillani and Heather Brady Photographs by Lynsey Addario PUBLISHED APRIL 17, […]
Source: Time By ALEX FITZPATRICK April 17, 2018 Starbucks is closing over 8,000 company-owned stores for racial bias training during an afternoon in May, the company announced Tuesday. The news comes as the Seattle, […]
Source: BBC News High resolution 3D scans of more than 25 historical sites from around the world are being released. CyArk used cutting edge digital archaeology techniques including laser scanning and drones to capture the images which have been released by the Google Arts and Culture project. The project coincides […]
Source: BBC News By Devon Van Houten Maldonado Museums do more than allow us to engage with history and art. They are forms in and of themselves, which, to varying degrees, enable and propagate missions and legacies through design and architecture. Perhaps no museum in recent history has created as […]
Source: CNN By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN)The area of Philadelphia where two men were arrested while waiting at a Starbucks last week has what the American Civil Liberties Union calls “the […]
Source: The Washington Post By James McAuley April 17 at 6:00 AM Email the author PARIS — Speaking alongside the flag-draped coffin of a police officer killed in a terrorist attack in southern France, President Emmanuel Macron last month lay blame on “underground Islamism” and those who “indoctrinate on our soil and corrupt daily.” […]
Source: The Hill BY AVERY ANAPOL The Pennsylvania House on Monday passed a bill to ban abortions based on a Down syndrome diagnosis in the fetus. The GOP-backed bill passed with bipartisan support in a 139-56 vote, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. The bill now heads to the Senate for a vote. […]
Source: National Post Alexandre Bissonnette also visited the website of the city’s main mosque numerous times in the days before the shootings Alexandre Bissonnette is shown in a photo from his Facebook profile page.Handout via Facebook The Canadian Press Stephanie Marin QUEBEC — A search of the computer belonging […]
Source: Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s top mufti has issued a fatwa, or a religious decree, saying that buying Facebook “likes” is prohibited under Islam because it’s a form of fraud and deception. Grand Mufti Shawki Allam regularly issues all sorts of fatwas, usually in response to questions by […]
Source: Associated Press By TIA GOLDENBERG JERUSALEM (AP) — An electrifying new documentary series on the problematic integration of Middle Eastern Jews by Israel’s European founders in the 1950s has reopened old wounds of an ethnic divide within Judaism ahead of the country’s 70th anniversary festivities. While Israel is marking […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By David Gauthier-Villars Updated April 16, 2018 8:38 p.m. ET An American pastor who has spent 18 months in Turkish custody appeared for the first time […]
Source: BBC News One of Scotland’s top bishops claims the Catholic Church may be its own worst enemy in spreading its beliefs. The Bishop of Galloway has released a letter suggesting: “It could be argued that the greatest obstacle to preaching the gospel today in Scotland is the Catholic Church […]
Source: The Guardian BY Calla Wahlquist Robert Richter says historic sexual abuse allegations against Pell invented by ‘thwarted’ people to punish the church Cardinal George Pell leaves the Melbourne magistrates’ court […]