Source :The Washington Post By Kristine Guerra December 21 at 1:51 PM Karen Alexia Palma said she was fired from her job as a health educator in Texas after she […]
Source: Aljazeera The Crusades: An Arab Perspective is a four-part documentary series telling the dramatic story of the Crusades seen through Arab eyes, from the seizing of Jerusalem under Pope […]
Source: Pew Research Center Large gaps in education levels persist, but all faiths are making gains – particularly among women Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious […]
Source: The Guardian BY Ryan Felton in Detroit The US Department of Justice is suing the city of Sterling Heights, Michigan, alleging it violated federal law in 2015 when it denied […]
Source: Sun Times The world’s largest hotel company will no longer place Bibles or the Book of Mormon in rooms of its newly constructed and to-be constructed hotels. In its […]
Source: RNS By Mark Silk It is amusing, if you’re into gallows humor, to find Family Research Council Tony Perkins with his knickers in a twist over President-elect Donald Trump’s […]
Source: Reuters By Christian Shepherd | BEIJING A popular website for Chinese Muslims has been inaccessible since Saturday after a critical letter addressed to Chinese President Xi Jinping was posted […]
Source: The Washington Post By Emily Yahr It’s rare to see a former Scientologist speak out against the Church of Scientology, let alone produce a documentary series that threatens to expose its secrets. Yet that’s what happened Tuesday night on the premiere of A&E’s “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.” Remini, […]
Source: The Atlantic By LEIGH ERIC SCHMIDT For over a decade, Fox News has made it a talking point that Christmas is under siege from liberals. Bill O’Reilly has promoted the […]
Source: Aljazeera By Rhodri Davies For today’s young Muslims, traditional methods of finding a life partner are increasingly viewed as inapplicable. Sana Ikarm and her husband Hakim met using Muzmatch, and about four months later they were married [Rhodri Davies/Al Jazeera] London, United Kingdom – Arzo Kazmi has been looking for […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Common media representations and political rhetoric would have us believe that the roughly 1.7 billion Muslims on the globe are a homogenous, monolithic group. And this couldn’t be further from the truth. In the latest episode of “The Secret Life […]
Source: Hartford Courant BY Alaine Griffin Contact Reporter At a gathering that included refugees from Syria and their advocates, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Tuesday that he does not expect federal policies regarding resettlement to change, but promised to fight any attempt by the federal government to restrict refugees based on […]
Source: Sunday Express By ZOE EFSTATHIOU The draft law, proposed by the Israeli government, has sparked outrage among Muslims who claim they are being discriminated against. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
Source: New Republic BY STEPHANIE RUSSELL-KRAFT November 16, 2016 In 2009, Mindy Swank was 20 weeks into a difficult pregnancy when her water broke. Her doctors said the baby, already suffering from severe anomalies, would not survive, and they recommended she terminate the pregnancy immediately to avoid the risk of […]
Source: The New York Times By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN MINNEAPOLIS — Emma Blom grew up in the Scandinavian heartland of rural Minnesota, reliably attending her small town’s Lutheran church. She […]
theguardian: by Richard Holoway — There are as many expressions of religious faith as there are of gender and sexuality Preaching to the converted: Graham Chapman in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, 1979. Photograph: Python Films/Rex/Shutterstock SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY. GET OVER IT.’ That slogan was posted on London buses […]
Source: The New York Times A federal judge has rejected the settlement of a lawsuit stemming from the New York Police Department’s surveillance of Muslims, saying the proposed deal does […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Peter Manseau was born for this job. The son of a priest and a nun, Manseau was meant to be a scholar making […]
Source: Pew Research Center Roughly one-in-five U.S. adults were raised with a mixed religious background, according to a new Pew Research Center study. This includes about one-in-ten who say they were raised by two people, both of whom were religiously affiliated but with different religions, such as a Protestant mother […]
Source: The Guardian BY Alan Evans Cruise was asked about his religion at the premiere of his new film, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Photograph: Samir Hussein/WireImage Tom Cruise has made a rare public comment about his belief in Scientology, saying it is “a beautiful religion”. At the London premiere […]