The Dark Consequences of Poland’s New Holocaust Law
Source: The Atlantic BY RACHEL DONADIO PARIS—The Polish scholar Jan T. Gross, an expert on the country during World War II, didn’t mince words when I asked him about Poland’s […]
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Building A Latino-Muslim Coalition With #TacoTrucksAtEveryMosque
Source: NPR BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO The connection between Middle Eastern and Mexican food goes all the way back to the Moors, and is well-known in culinary circles. Al pastor tacos are […]
The Michigan town where only Christians are allowed to buy houses
Source: The Guardian By Rose Hackman Bay View is for many an idyllic community – but a lawsuit will test its rule that only practicing Christians can own property Prospective homeowners, […]
Creationist’s speech canceled at university in Oklahoma
Source: Associated Press By ADAM KEALOHA CAUSEY OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma university cancelled a planned speech by the founder of a Kentucky museum dedicated to creationism after the […]
The long read The fight for the right to be a Muslim in America
Source: The Guardian A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump. By Andrew Rice Forty […]
Hijab Protests Expose Iran’s Core Divide
Source: The New Yorker By Robin Wright It was the quietest protest Iran has ever witnessed. Vida Movahed, a thirty-one-year-old mother of a toddler, stood atop a large utility box on Tehran’s busy Enghelab […]
Why the Pope Is Genuflecting to China
Source: The New York Times BY Yi-Zheng Lian On Feb. 1, the same day that new repressive regulations of religion went into force in China, the Vatican took a deep bow […]
Pope Francis’ reputation on sex abuse ‘has gone from bad to worse’
Source: Religion News Service By Christopher Lamb | February 7, 2018 Osorno Bishop Juan Barros, left, in Iquique, Chile, on Jan. 18, 2018. Pope Francis in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 21, 2018. (Left: […]
Danish government proposes ban on full-face veils
Source: The Guardian Agence France-Presse in Stockholm A woman wearing a niqab. It is not known how many women wear the niqab and burqa in Denmark. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters The […]
Australian Prime Minister To Issue National Apology For Child Sexual Abuse
Source: NPR BY JAMES DOUBEK Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he will offer a national apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse before the end of the year. It […]
Pope’s Controversial China Overture Has Cold-War Precedent
Source: Wall Street Journal By Francis X. Rocca Feb. 7, 2018 8:00 a.m. ET ROME—Pope Francis’ overture to Communist China echoes the Vatican’s conciliatory approach to Soviet-bloc states during much […]
Maxi dresses, cardigans and hijabs: Essentials in Macy’s new fashion line aimed at Muslim women
Source: The Washington Post By Tracy Jan February 7 Email the author Macy’s is the latest U.S. brand to tap into the growing Islamic clothing market. (Macy’s) Macy’s is launching a “modest” fashion […]
AP Exclusive: Vatican to interview Chile victim in person
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and EVA VERGARA VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s sex-crimes expert is changing plans and will fly to New York to take in-person testimony […]
Boston police’s social media surveillance unfairly targeted Muslims, ACLU says
Source: Boston Globe By Alanna Durkin Richer ASSOCIATED PRESS FEBRUARY 07, 2018 BOSTON (AP) — A social media monitoring tool used by the Boston Police Department to identify potential threats swept up […]
Trump’s National Prayer Breakfast speech infused with God-and-country references
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey President Trump spoke about America’s religious tradition and the importance of God at the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 8. (Reuters) President Trump delivered […]
Tamil Nadu: the Indian state to become a global leader in clean energy
Source: BBC News India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu is poised to become a global leader in wind power, according to a new report. But first the state must overcome […]
First Woman To Accuse Nassar Says Church Can Be One Of ‘Worst Places’ To Go For Help
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla BRENDAN MCDERMID / REUTERS Survivor Rachael Denhollander speaks at the sentencing hearing on Jan. 24 for Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnastics doctor who […]
Women, Fashion Has You Covered
Source: The New York Times By VANESSA FRIEDMANAPRIL 6, 2017 It is a truism of the history of dress that decade-defining looks generally don’t congeal until quite late in the period […]
Early chaos of Trump’s travel ban set stage for a year of immigration policy debates
Source: The Washington Post By Wesley Lowery and Josh Dawsey February 6 Email the author Iraqi immigrant Hameed Darwish speaks with Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez after being released at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, […]
How Americans came to embrace meditation, and with it, Hinduism
Source: The Conversation This week marks the death anniversary of Mahesh Yogi, the Indian guru who brought transcendental meditation to the West in the sixties and became a spiritual teacher to […]