Source: NPR By CECILIA LEI On Wednesday, Britain’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled that heterosexual couples should not be banned from entering civil partnerships and that making them only available to same-sex couples is […]
Source: Associated Press By FRANCES D’EMILIO VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignations of two more Chilean bishops, the latest fallout from a sex abuse scandal […]
Source: Reuters BY Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – When Pope Francis wanted to appoint a woman as deputy head of the Vatican press office in 2016, he quickly ran […]
Source: The Washington Post By Juliet Eilperin ABOARD THE SHIP MORE SPACIOUS THAN THE HEAVENS —Off the island of Spetses, the leader of 300 million Christians worldwide told a group of nearly […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Chris Herlinger (RNS) — King Abdullah II of Jordan has won the 2018 Templeton Prize for promoting dialogue and cooperation between Muslims of differing traditions. […]
Source: BBC News A terminally-ill man who wants to be helped to die has lost his legal challenge at the Court of Appeal. Noel Conway, 68, who has motor neurone […]
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER JERUSALEM (AP) — When Prince William caps his historic royal tour of the Middle East with a visit to the holy city of Jerusalem, […]
Source: The Guardian Former bishops of breakaway Mormon sect avoid jail over offences spanning decades Reuters Winston Blackmore, convicted for marrying 24 women, outside a British Columbia court in 2017. […]
Source: Associated Press By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and KAWEEWIT KAEWJINDA MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — Along a muddy mountain path not far from the entrance to a flooded cave where 12 […]
Source: Reuters BY Zeba Siddiqui NAYAPARA REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh (Reuters) – The United Nations and the Bangladesh government have started formally registering hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have […]
Source: The Guardian By David Agren in Mexico City In both of Mexico’s last two presidential elections, Julieta Brambila voted for Andrés Manuel López Obrador because she supported his plans to tackle corruption, curb […]
Source: Reuters BY Joshua Inuwa JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – More than 200 people were killed over the weekend in violence in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, the state governor said, making […]
Source: Reuters BY Pawel Sobczak WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish lawmakers voted on Wednesday to water down a Holocaust law that angered the United States and Israel, and remove parts that […]
Source: The New York Times By Rick Gladstone To President Trump’s supporters, the Supreme Court decision upholding his travel ban from seven countries — five with Muslim majorities — was an affirmation […]
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail HauslohnerJune 26Email the author Ramy Almansoob’s children have been asking every day for weeks: “Do we have a decision yet? Do we have a decision […]
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has hailed a Supreme Court ruling upholding his travel ban which covers people from several Muslim-majority countries. Lower courts had deemed the ban […]
Source: NPR BY SCOTT HORSLEY In the sharply divided decision over President Trump’s travel ban, the Supreme Court repudiated a notorious case from the last century: one that justified the internment […]
Source: The New York Times By Elizabeth Dias and Sydney Ember WASHINGTON — The consequences of President Trump’s nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court — and the Republican blockade of […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)One of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ pastors told her congregation on Sunday that she does not agree with the “zero-tolerance” immigration policies that […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) — For the third time in a row, the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s General Assembly decided against divesting from companies invested in fossil […]