The Two Americans
Source: The New York Times Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their worlds collided in western Arkansas. By SABRINA TAVERNISE Photographs by ETHAN TATE for The New York Times AUGUST […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim youth group hits streets to help Houston residents during storm
Source: Independent 40 members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, passed out food, water, and other supplies in Houston, according to organisers. Both groups expect to gain more volunteers from surrounding cities when the roadways open up. Madeel Abdullah, director of humanitarian affairs for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, said more than 700 members […]
Tillerson raps some U.S. allies for religious freedom violations, slams IS
Reuters International AUGUST 16, 2017 U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson adjusts his glasses as he delivers remarks on the 2016 International Religious Freedom Annual report at the State Department in Washington, U.S. August 15, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (reuters_tickers) By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. allies including Saudi […]
What we know about Uber’s next CEO Dara Khosrowshahi
Source: Yahoo News BY JP Mangalindan After two months of infighting, Uber’s board offered Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi the Uber chief executive role — a role Khosrowshahi accepted just hours later, a source […]
Catastrophic Floods Threaten Millions After Hurricane Harvey Drenches Houston
Source: Huffington Post Over 25 inches of rain fell on some parts of Southeast Texas. By Roque Planas, Alana Horowitz Satlin, David Lohr, Eline Gordts, Nick Baumann Harvey’s center is […]
Trump is a liability, not a leader
Source: CNN Donald Trump’s global honeymoon is over.Seven months into his presidency, his foes have him figured out while America’s friends are ducking for cover.Trump’s off-script, off-color campaign-style rallies that roll back-to-back with the carefully scripted aspirations of his administration suggest to large parts of the world a man who […]
President Trump Has Taken a Key Step to Implement His Transgender Military Ban
Source: Time BY Zeke J Miller Aug 25, 2017 President Donald Trump on Friday formally ordered the Department of Defense to reverse a 2016 order allowing transgender individuals to serve openly in […]
Storm Harvey: 1,000 rescued as Houston hit by ‘catastrophic floods’
Source: BBC News More than 1,000 people have been rescued in flooded parts of Houston, as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to batter Texas with heavy rains. There is a “flash […]
HATE, HOPE AND SWIMMING LESSONS
Source: Time BY ROBIN SHULMAN | PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANNY WILCOX FRAZIER—VII FOR TIME Just over a year ago, Ghazweh Aljabooli and her husband and five children landed at the Des Moines airport and […]
Trump Cybersecurity Advisors Resign, Citing His ‘Insufficient Attention’ to Threats
Source: Time By David Z. Morris A quarter of the members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, whose purview includes national cybersecurity, have resigned. In a group resignation letter, they […]
Attention On Hate Speech Drives Donations To Fight Anti-Semitism
Source: NPR BY TOM GJELTEN Jewish groups have broadened their work to oppose all forms of bigotry. Following the violence in Charlottesville, Va., more non-Jews see the reality of anti-Semitism […]
JAY-Z Explains Why He and Beyonce Named the Twins Rumi and Sir
Source: ETonline By Liz Calvario We finally know why JAY-Z and Beyonce named their twins Rumi and Sir. The 47-year-old rapper explained the origin of their little ones’ names in […]
National security aide Sebastian Gorka leaves White House
Source: TOI White Housenational security aide Sebastian Gorka tells The Associated Press he has resigned from his position.A White House official, however, says Gorka did not resign but “no longer works at the White House.”That official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Gorka […]
‘Blood and Faith’: A new book links white nationalists to Christianity
Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston | August 23, 2017 (RNS) — There were no burning crosses or other hijacked symbols of religion on obvious display when white nationalists descended on Charlottesville, […]
The U.S. Catholic Church’s last major effort on racism was in 1979. Charlottesville woke it up.
Source: The Washington Post By Anthea Butler August 23 at 6:23 PM A young boy clasps hands while demonstrators and sympathizers hear a prayer as they continued to stand at a rope […]
‘The new Obama’: will Abdul El-Sayed be America’s first Muslim governor?
Source: The Guardian At seven years old, Abdul El-Sayed sat in the eye of Hurricane Andrew, the most destructive hurricane in US history until Katrina. Living near Miami, El-Sayed drank […]
Evangelicals squander their moral authority by sticking with Trump
Source: USA Today BY Jonathan Merritt, Opinion contributor In the wake of President Trump’s waffling on white supremacy, his supporters and advisers have abandoned him in droves. After a wave of […]
Can Trump’s Religious Freedom Ambassador Actually Succeed?
Source: Foreign Policy BY JUDD BIRDSALL If confirmed by the Senate to serve as the next U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback will face a daunting trifecta […]
God or the divine is referenced in every state constitution
Source: Pew Research Center BY ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROM20 COMMENT The U.S. Constitution never explicitly mentions God or the divine, but the same cannot be said of the nation’s state constitutions. In fact, […]
The U.S. Imposes Secondary Sanctions on Chinese and Russian Firms Over North Korea
Source: Time BY Charlie Campbell / Beijingg 12:53 AM ET The U.S. has announced new sanctions on ten Russian and Chinese firms as well as six individuals that it accuses of aiding […]