Source: Time BY Josh Sanburn The day after Donald Trump was elected president, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray visited a local school. Many of the students, he says, were Latino, undocumented and upset about the new president-elect, who vowed during the campaign to deport millions of people just like them. In the […]
Source: BBC US President-elect Donald Trump will not pursue a further investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, to help her “heal”, his spokeswoman has said. A Trump spokeswoman said he would back down from his pledge to appoint a special prosecutor to look into the former Secretary of State. Mr Trump […]
Source: BBC President-elect Donald Trump says the US will quit the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in the White House. He made the announcement in a video messageoutlining what he intends to do first when he takes office in January. The TPP trade deal was signed by […]
Source: Time By Amy Sandler Amy Sandler was a plaintiff in Baskin v. Bogan, which challenged Indiana’s denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples while Vice President-elect Mike Pence was governor ‘I want everyone to know the type of man he is’ As a resident of Indiana for five years, I […]
Source: ABC2News Baltimore – An open discussion to unite people against hatred. All faiths and races gather for nearly two hours Sunday to talk about how the nation feels after the divisive presidential election. The meeting had a simple message, inclusion. Religious leaders from many denominations including Islam, Judaism and […]
Source: Huffington Post By Zainab Salbi Founder of Women for Women International, Media Host of The Zainab Salbi Project and Nida’a Show If you want to understand the rise of Islamophobia […]
Source: BBC US President Barack Obama has said he may speak out after leaving office if he feels his successor Donald Trump is threatening core American values. By convention, former […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Eliot Nelson HuffPost Hill Editor, The Huffington Post DON EMMERT/GETTY IMAGESIncoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus arrives for a day of meetings at the clubhouse of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Friday. GOP chairman and incoming White House chief of staff Reince […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Sam Levine Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post A federal judge presiding over a naturalization ceremony in San Antonio, Texas, on Friday told new U.S. citizens if they didn’t like President-elect Donald Trump, they could leave the United States. “I can assure you that whether you voted […]
Source: Huffington Post Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Reports of anti-Semitic, racist and anti-immigrant incidents at schools around the country have spread rapidly in the days since Donald Trump became President-elect Trump. These incidents are hitting not only colleges and universities, but high schools, middle schools and even […]
Source: Motto By Suyin Haynes President Barack Obama told his teenage daughters to “constantly affirm and lift up and fight” following the election of Donald Trump to the presidency last […]
Source: Pew Research Center Declines in eight states and increases in seven since 2009 BY JEFFREY S. PASSEL AND D’VERA COHN There were 8 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. […]
Source: Time By Darlene Superville / AP (LIMA, Peru) — Warning against a rush to judgment, President Barack Obama sought Saturday to ease concerns in Latin America that President-elect Donald Trump will wipe out trade deals and create other international problems. “Don’t just assume the worst,” he said. “Wait until the […]
Source: http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/lifestyle/religion/ahmadiyya-muslim-community-continues-to-serve-despite-fears-of-persecution/article_bb13b035-4881-594e-93a6-1720c525be88.html By David Frey Special to The News-Post Courtesy photo: From left, Shahina Bashir, Fauzia Rehan and Nabeela Malik volunteer at the soup kitchen in Frederick as part of their spiritual work. The women were more nervous than usual last Friday as they arrived to serve food at the Frederick […]
Source: The Guardian Pope Francis made his comments during a Vatican ceremony in which he appointed 17 new cardinals. Photograph: Giuseppe Ciccia/Pacific Press/Barcroft By Peter J Walker and agencies Pope Francis has said an “epidemic of animosity” toward religious and ethnic minorities is hurting the weakest in society, in a thinly […]
Source: Time By Errin Haines Whack / AP President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for leadership posts threaten national unity and promise to turn back the clock on progress for racial, religious and sexual minorities, civil rights leaders and others said Friday after his nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general. Comments […]
Source: Time By Matthew Daly (WASHINGTON) — The Obama administration is blocking new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean, handing a victory to environmentalists who say industrial activity in […]
Source: The Economic Times By Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury NEW DELHI: US President elect will approve a Congress bill to declare Pakistan a terror state when the legislation reaches him in […]
Source: Religion News Service By Saeed A Khan The election of Donald Trump has been met by exactly half this country with jubilation and by the other half with extreme […]
Source: http://www.delta-optimist.com/entertainment/women-of-islam-celebration-sunday-1.2898135 For more information, visit http://www.lajnaevents.weebly.com. Women of Islam celebration Sunday DELTA OPTIMIST | NOVEMBER 18, 2016 12:00 AM The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at British Columbia Women’s Association, in celebration of its 50th year in Canada, invites women of Delta to attend an event in which they focus on the role […]