Settlement will prevent illegal NYPD surveillance of Muslims
Source: RNS NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department has agreed not to conduct surveillance based on religion or ethnicity and to listen to Muslims as it develops […]
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Syria war: Attacks hit Syrian airbase in Homs province
Source: Al Jazeera News Missiles have struck a Syrian airbase in Homs province early on Monday, state media reported, with Russia and Syria blaming Israel for carrying out the attack. Two Israeli […]
When I Drank, I Knelt on the Bathroom Floor to Throw Up. When I Got Sober, I Did it to Pray
Source: Time By LESLIE JAMISON Leslie Jamison is the author, most recently, of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath. The second time I got sober, I started praying with a sense of […]
Israel and Gaza Brace for Round 2 of Protests at Border Fence
Source: The New York Times BY DAVID M. HALBFINGER and IYAD ABUHEWEILA JERUSALEM — In Gaza City, pickup trucks and motorized rickshaws busily ferried piles of tires toward the border fence with […]
Peers report pro-Corbyn Facebook pages to police for antisemitism
Source: The Guardian By Jessica Elgot Political correspondent Cross-party group says some posts incite violence and should be urgently investigated Lord Sugar, a signatory to the letter to Scotland Yard, has been […]
Myanmar groups say Facebook hasn’t controlled hate speech
Source: Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Civil society and rights groups in Myanmar said Facebook has failed to adequately act against online hate speech that incites violence against the country’s […]
At Korean-American churches, a struggle to retain language and tradition
Source: Religion News Service By Aziza Kasumov LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Stephen Han’s sermon has the cadence of a TED Talk. Wearing jeans and a loose button-up shirt, he paces energetically […]
You Might Be Eating Halal Meat And Not Even Know It
Source: NPR BY ESTHER HONIG Wearing a heavy smock and rubber boots, Amadedin Eganwa stands over a large conveyor belt that’s carrying unconscious lambs. He faces east, toward Mecca, gently lifts […]
Too Radical for France, a Muslim Clergyman Faces Deportation
Source: The New York Times By ADAM NOSSITER El Hadi Doudi, an imam who preaches a fundamentalist form of Islam, at a courthouse in Marseille, France, in February. The French government […]
Gay Chechens flee threats, beatings and exorcism
Source: BBC News Family pressure has fuelled a sense of persecution felt by gay people in Chechnya, a mainly Muslim region in southern Russia. Dozens have fled and some have […]
Christian women in the U.S. are more religious than their male counterparts
Source: Pew Research Center BY DALIA FAHMY A woman prays at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) In many parts of the world, women […]
With Millennials less likely to believe in God, churches work hard to buck trends
Source: ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES BY John Boyle, jboyle@citizen-times.com The statistics are daunting, particularly when it comes to the “nones.” Fewer younger people, particularly Millennials, attend church or believe in God, and they’re less likely […]
Older adults grow just as many new brain cells as young people
Source: Science Daily Date:April 5, 2018 Source:Cell Press Summary:Researchers show for the first time that healthy older men and women can generate just as many new brain cells as younger […]
Hungary elections: Another populist test for Europe?
Source: Aljazeera by Patrick Strickland 12 hours ago A government billboard is seen displaying George Soros in October 2017 [Bernadett Szabo/Reuters]With Hungarians slated to head to the polls on Sunday, […]
The Surgeon General Urges More Americans to Carry Overdose Antidote to Prevent Opioid Deaths
Source: Time By R.J. RICO / AP April 5, 2018 (ATLANTA) — The nation’s chief doctor wants more Americans to start carrying the overdose antidote naloxone to help combat the nation’s […]
This Study Could Explain Why Our Brains Perform Worse As We Age
Source: Time By ALICE PARK For a long time researchers thought the brain did not make new cells. That meant that as the existing cells died with age, nerve connections were […]
Fear grips Yemen’s Aden as deadly attacks target clerics
Source: Associated Press By AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A spate of deadly drive-by shootings targeting Muslim clerics and preachers has sparked panic and fear in Yemen’s southern port […]
Saudi cinema screens reopen on 18 April ‘with Black Panther’
Source: BBC News Saudi Arabia’s first cinema in more than 35 years will open on 18 April, showing the action movie Black Panther. It is part of a deal done […]
Missionaries at border spread Christianity to North Korea
Source: Associated Press By HYUNG-JIN KIM and GERRY SHIH SOUTHERN JILIN PROVINCE, China (AP) — To the North Koreans gathered beneath a crucifix in an apartment in this northeastern Chinese […]
The ISIS Files
Source: The New York Times By Rukmini Callimachi Photographs by Ivor Prickett April 4, 2018 On five trips to battle-scarred Iraq, journalists for The New York Times scoured old Islamic State offices, […]