‘Tis the season for animal rights
Source: RNS By Ben Williamson (USA Today) At this time of year, we often see animals subjected to cruel holiday stunts or treated as living props in our confusing pageantry. […]
What We Really Know About the First Thanksgiving
Source: Time By Melissa Chan The tryptophan-packed turkey wasn’t the star during the first Thanksgiving—and that’s not the only thing that’s changed in the nearly 400 years since the holiday began. Much is unknown about the first recorded feast between the Pilgrims and Native Americans in the New World at […]
My Muslim Christmas in July
Source: The Wall Street Journal Muslim children in the U.S. worry about missing out on a jolly holiday. My friends and I found a solution. By SABEEHA REHMAN July 7, […]
President Obama just acknowledged this Buddhist holiday for the first time
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Presidents routinely publish statements acknowledging every sort of holiday and commemorative occasion. In the past month alone, President Obama has issued proclamations on everything […]
How MLK Day Became a Holiday
Source: Time Legislation designating the national holiday was passed in 1983 Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day is no long-standing tradition. The holiday is a little more than three decades […]
Add a Muslim holiday? Remove a Jewish one? Schools debate calendars as diversity increases
Source: The Washington Post It came as a victory to many in the Muslim community when a Maryland school district decided to shift its calendar so that students would be […]
Britain may soon have Muslim bank holidays: Parliament petition urges MPs to consider having a day off during Hindu and Islam festivals
Online petition requesting day off for Eid and Diwali has 119,000 signatures Under rules topic has to be debated in parliament once it reaches 100,000 Would be first non-Christian religious holidays to be marked Has angered nationalists who complain St George’s day is ignored An online petition urging politicians to […]