Source: Reuters BY Gul Yousafzai Quetta, Pakistan (Reuters) – The militant group Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for killing four members of a Christian family in southwestern Pakistan. A […]
Source: Associated Press By SARAH EL DEEB TEL ARBOUSH, Syria (AP) — The young men and women in traditional costumes of red, blue and white, the colors of the Assyrian […]
Source: Reuters BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) – Rights activists called on Tuesday for Indonesia’s Aceh province to release four people detained on suspicion of having homosexual sex, amid concerns over […]
Source: The Guardian BY Jessica Elgot Jeremy Corbyn has said he “learned at a lot” at a Passover event hosted by a leftwing Jewish group highly critical of mainstream Jewish bodies, after […]
Source: BBC News By Callum May When Pope Francis visits the Irish Republic, in August, the first papal visit for almost 40 years he will find a country wrestling with its relationship […]
Source: Associated Press By YANAN WANG BEIJING (AP) — Restricting the Vatican’s control over the appointment of bishops in China does not infringe on religious freedom, a Chinese official said […]
Source: Reuters By David Alire Garcia SAN JOSE (Reuters) – The resounding victory of a pro-gay marriage candidate in Costa Rica’s presidential run-off vote on Sunday staved off a resurgent […]
Source: The New York Times By ROD NORDLAND KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan military helicopters bombed a religious gathering in the northern province of Kunduz on Monday, killing at least 70 people […]
Source: The Atlantic BY JEFFREY GOLDBERG This much, at least, can be said for Mohammed bin Salman, the putatively reformist crown prince of Saudi Arabia: He has made all the right […]
Source: Baltimore Sun BY Colin Campbell Safa Daftani stood in a crowd Sunday at the Inner Harbor holding a sign with a flow chart on it. “Are you Black? Muslim? Human?” it […]
Source: The Guardian By David Smith in Washington The Rev Dr William Barber’s arrival in the world was full of portent. He was born on 30 August 1963, two days after Martin Luther King’s […]
Source: Religion News Service By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service is marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with stories and commentaries looking […]
Source: BBC News By M Ilyas Khan Malala Yousafzai’s first homecoming in six years was brief, and revealing. Brief, given the amount of time she would have otherwise liked to […]
Source: BBC News Fiji’s prime minister has said the Pacific island nation is in “a fight for survival” as climate change brings “almost constant” deadly cyclones. Frank Bainimarama said Fiji […]
Source: Religion News Service By Jeffrey Salkin | April 2, 2018 John Legend, as Jesus, is carried during a dress rehearsal scene from NBC’s “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert.” Photo by Virginia […]
Source: Associated Press By JAVIER CORDOBA SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Voters gave a resounding no to an evangelical pastor who rose to political prominence by campaigning against same-sex […]
Source: Reuters BY Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis, in his Easter address on Sunday, called for peace in the Holy Land two days after 15 Palestinians were […]
Source: The New York Times By JASON HOROWITZ Pope Francis has had several chats with a left-wing Italian journalist who considers himself an atheist and occasionally puts words in the pope’s […]
Source: Associated Press By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president recited an Islamic prayer Saturday in the Hagia Sophia, a historic Istanbul landmark that has become a symbol of […]
Source: The Washington Post By Luisa Beck April 1 at 4:37 PM Email the author A memorial marks the vacant lot in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood where the Fraenkelufer synagogue once stood. There are […]