Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence
Economist: Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence. By Jonathan Sacks. Hodder & Stoughton; 305 pages; £20. To be published in America in October by Schocken; $28.95. THE Western world […]
Saudi Arabia Bans National Geographic Cover Featuring Pope Francis
FP: Pope Francis has won praise around the world for advancing a more humble, tolerant version of Catholicism, but there’s one country that he evidently hasn’t won over. Saudi Arabia […]
My digital and mental struggle with Islamophobes
By Atif Rashid, UK I’m on an almost daily battle with Islamophobes whether online or in my mind trying to figure out why these people have so much hatred against Islam. […]
Finding a Second Home for Ten Million Homeless Syrians
Epigraph: “Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.” (Exodus 22:21) Image of Drowned Syrian, Aylan Kurdi, 3, Brings Migrant Crisis Into Focus Lead article […]
Russia: We’ll Keep Arming Syria
Source: The Daily Beast Russia’s foreign ministry pushed back Monday at the U.S. warning that the Kremlin was escalating the conflict in Syria, arguing that its policy to support President Bashar al-Assad’s government in the fight against extremists has been longstanding. “We have always supplied equipment to them for their […]
Pope Francis makes Catholic divorce easier
Source: BBC Pope Francis has unveiled reforms intended to make it easier for Roman Catholics to divorce and remarry within the Church. The radical reforms allow access to procedures free […]
Migrant crisis: Germany ‘can take 500,000 asylum-seekers a year’
Source: BBC Germany can cope with at least 500,000 asylum-seekers a year for several years, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said. Officials have said they expect more than 800,000 asylum-seekers […]
Can UK parliament ignore 100,000 calls for Netanyahu’s arrest?
The Electronic Intifada: The UK parliament may debate whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested for war crimes. This is because more than 100,000 UK citizens and residents […]
Op-Ed: Humanity washed ashore
Source: The Malta Independent www.independent.com.mt | Monday 7 September 2015, by Laiq Ahmed Atif | amjmalta@gmail.com The tragedies of migrants are not a new reality of the current times. Every year, […]
Germany’s coalition government has agreed to spend 6bn euros to support record numbers of migrants
Source: BBC Germany’s coalition government has agreed to spend 6bn euros (£4.4bn) to support record numbers of migrants and other measures to deal with the influx. Critics at home have […]
Muslims threaten Europe’s Christian identity, Hungary’s leader says
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orban, has made nationalistic and controversial statements in the past. But with his country emerging as a main gateway for refugees trying to reach richer European nations, his words suddenly carry much heavier weight. On Thursday, Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper published an op-ed by Orban in which he claimed […]
Who will help the 10 million Syrian refugees?
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Matthew 5:7) Pope Francis calls on every Catholic parish in Europe to host one migrant family Migrant crisis: Journey […]
Pope Francis calls on every European parish to host a refugee family
Source: RT Pope Francis has called on every European parish to host one refugee family each in a goodwill gesture that will begin in the Vatican state. It comes as […]
Pope Francis calls on every Catholic parish in Europe to host one migrant family
Migrant crisis: Journey through Austria to Germany resumes Hundreds of migrants have resumed their journey through Austria to Germany after Hungary’s decision on Friday to let them through. Several trains […]
Angela Merkel the Best Friend of the Syrian Refugees
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Matthew 5:7) Merkel the bold Source: Economist ANGELA MERKEL may be the most powerful politician in Europe, but she […]
Pope Francis: evolution and creation both right
Source: The Guardian It is possible to believe in both evolution and the Catholic church’s teaching on creation, Pope Francis has said, as he cautioned against portraying God as a […]
Bigotry veiled as liberation
middleeasteye.net: Earlier this month, the European court of human rights (ECHR) issued a judgment in which it rejected a challenge to the controversial 2011 French law banning the wearing of […]
Europe’s Migrant Crisis By the Numbers
FP: In April, a 66-foot boat carrying some 850 migrants across the Mediterranean Sea to Italy capsized, killing almost all those on board. The tragedy catapulted migration issues to the forefront of Brussels’s political agenda, as ministers grappled with how to deal with Europe’s influx of asylum-seekers and migrants without […]
Worst refugee crisis since WWII
RT: Europe’s migrant crisis has been dubbed the worst since WWII with a record number of 107,500 migrants crossing the EU’s borders in July. Tens of thousands of people are […]
Europe Rethinks the Schengen Agreement
Source: Stratfor When France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg signed the Schengen Agreement in 1985, they envisioned a system in which people and goods could move from one country to another without barriers. This vision was largely realized: Since its implementation in 1995, the Schengen Agreement eliminated border controls […]