Source: Religion News Service By Yonat Shimron HAIFA, Israel (RNS) — Congregation Moriah, this city’s only Conservative synagogue, offers Arabic classes, as well as occasional lessons on the Quran and the […]
Source: Associated Press By JAMES ANDERSON DENVER (AP) — A big U.S. meatpacker has agreed to pay $1.5 million to 138 Somali-American Muslim workers who were fired from their jobs […]
China to regulate online religious activity amid crackdown Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is rolling out new rules on religious activity on the internet amid an ongoing crackdown […]
Source: Associated Press By RICK CALLAHAN INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Amish couple with 13 children sued the federal government on Wednesday, accusing officials of violating their constitutional rights by insisting […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Charlotte Allen Aug. 23, 2018 6:28 p.m. ET Former U.K. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson recently generated outrage with comments about the burqa. In a column […]
Source: BBC News A Muslim couple have been denied Swiss citizenship after they refused to shake hands with people of the opposite sex during their interview, officials say. They confirmed […]
Religion must obey Chinese law, paper says of mosque protest Source: Associated Press BY SAM McNEIL and YANAN WANG WEIZHOU, China (AP) — A newspaper of the ruling Communist Party said […]
Christian heartland opens window into fight for China’s soul Source: Associated Press By YANAN WANG NANYANG, China (AP) — The 62-year-old Chinese shopkeeper had waited nearly his entire adult life […]
Tales from a street of mosques, synagogues, churches and temples Source: Aljazeera By Jenny Gustafsson Siraj Khan is a caretaker at the Beth El synagogue. Kolkata’s synagogues have always had […]
Banning Muslim Veils Tends to Backfire—Why Do Countries Keep Doing It? Source: The Atlantic BY SIGAL SAMUEL Denmark this week wrote the latest chapter in a global story that is becoming […]
A crime or a right? Some Danish Muslims defy face veil ban Source: Reuters BY Emil Nielson COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – When a ban on the wearing of face veils in […]
Source: The Washington Post By Ann E. Marimow The Washington region’s transit system can bar religious messages on its buses and trains and in its stations, a federal appeals court ruled […]
Source: Foreign Policy BY NITHIN COCA A demonstrator wearing a mask painted with the colors of the flag of East Turkestan and a hand bearing the colors of the Chinese flag […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Johnnie Moore & Gayle Manchin (RNS) — This week, as hundreds of religious leaders, nonprofit heads and government officials gather in Washington for the State Department’s […]
The Center for Pluralism is pleased to present a symposium as a side event in conjunction with the Department of States’ 2018 Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. to present a […]
Source: The Guardian By Calla Wahlquist A Victorian judge has banned a woman whose husband is facing terrorism charges from wearing a niqab in court, saying it posed a potential security […]
Source: WILLAMETTE WEEK By Frankie Benitez | Religious leaders from the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice today denounced the treatment of the 123 immigrants detained in a federal prison in Sheridan, […]
Source: Reuters AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders will hold a competition of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad, it said on Tuesday. The party […]
Source: The New York Times By Martin Selsoe Sorensen COPENHAGEN — Denmark has a long record of taking daring steps on issues like gender rights, development aid and green energy. […]
Source: The Economist RELIGION and human rights have always had an intense, tortured relationship. On one hand, liberty of conscience and belief is one of the first and most fundamental […]