Pope to visit Morocco in March in big year for foreign trips
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is going to Morocco in March in what is expected to be a heavy year of foreign travel for the 81-year-old […]
New Zealand child abuse inquiry widened to include religious institutions
Source: The Guardian BY Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin A royal commission into abuse in state care in New Zealand has been expanded to include those abused by faith-based institutions such as […]
Ex-Detainee Describes Torture In China’s Xinjiang Re-Education Camp
Source: NPR By ROB SCHMITZ By the time Chinese guards began torturing Kayrat Samarkand inside a re-education camp last spring, he says his life had prepared him for this. The […]
Rohingya fearful of doctors keep faith healers in business
Source: Associated Press By RISHABH R. JAIN KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh (AP) — Abul Kalam sits cross-legged on the floor of his tiny mud hut and whispers prayers into a small plastic […]
Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of Amnesty’s highest honour over ‘shameful betrayal’
Source: The Guardian By Rebecca Ratcliffe Amnesty International has withdrawn a prestigious human rights award from Aung San Suu Kyi, following what it described as a “shameful betrayal” of the values […]
Exclusive: U.N. will not help Myanmar with long-term camps for Rohingya – document
Source: Reuters BY Poppy McPherson YANGON (Reuters) – The United Nations’ refugee agency will not provide humanitarian assistance to Rohingya Muslims who return to Myanmar if they are interned in […]
In Iraq’s parliament, Shi’ite militia leaders plan to call the shots
Source: Reuters BYAhmed Rasheed, Babak Dehghanpisheh, Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) – In May, Hassan Fada’am traded his military fatigues for a suit when he became one of 45 Shi’ite militiamen elected to […]
Jerusalem mayoral race exposes religious-secular rift
Source: Religion News Service BY Michele Chabin JERUSALEM (RNS) – Guyoz Golan, a young Israeli businessman, just moved to Tel Aviv, but as a registered voter in Jerusalem he is […]
Canada in talks with Pakistan over possibly taking in Asia Bibi
Source: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that his government was holding talks with Pakistan over potentially offering asylum to Asia Bibi, a Christian woman recently freed […]
India court to review lifting of temple ban on women of menstruating age
Source: Reuters BY Malini Menon, Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s top court on Tuesday agreed to review its ruling that removed a ban on women of menstruating age from entering […]
Feds: Priest lied about cancer in scam to raise money
Source: Associated Press STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Federal investigators said they have probable cause to believe a Mississippi priest fraudulently received donations by falsely telling people he had cancer and […]
U.S. Bishops Had a Plan to Curb Sex Abuse. Rome Ordered Them to Wait.
Source: The New York Times By Laurie Goodstein BALTIMORE — Facing a reignited crisis of credibility over child sexual abuse, the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States came to […]
PAKISTAN: When the state capitulates
Source: Dawn The recent buckling down of the state to mobs of the radical right is not the first time it has done so. By I.A. Rehman Buoyed perhaps by […]
Half of white women continue to vote Republican. What’s wrong with them?
Source: The Guardian By Moira Donegan For the past two years, the American left has been haunted by a number: 53. It is the percentage of white women who voted […]
Nationalism a driving force behind fake news in India, research shows
Source: BBC News A rising tide of nationalism in India is driving ordinary citizens to spread fake news, according to BBC research. The research found that facts were less important […]
Chinese staff forced to drink urine and eat roaches
Source: BBC News Managers at a Chinese firm have been jailed for making staff who failed to reach sales targets drink urine and eat cockroaches, local media report. Police took […]
Prescription Doses of Fish Oil May Lower Heart Attack and Stroke Risk
Source: Time By ALICE PARK November 10, 2018 Omega-3 fatty acids, abundant in fish oil, are known to be good for the heart. Studies have shown that people who eat more […]
Is It Right to Blame World War I’s Treaty of Versailles for the Rise of Hitler?
Source: Time By STEVEN WOODBRIDGE, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY / THE CONVERSATION Just over a week after the beginning of World War II in September 1939, a letter appeared in the Richmond Herald — a […]
An ancient community in Pakistan fades as conversions to Islam rise
Source: The Washington Post By Haq Nawaz Khan BUMBURET, Pakistan — For centuries, a small community of fair-skinned, blue-eyed people known as the Kalasha have inhabited a remote valley in northwest Pakistan, […]
Under the shadow of Asia Bibi; Life as a Christian in Pakistan
Source: CNN Rawalpindi, Pakistan (CNN) It is a chilly winter’s morning and a weak blue fog has settled over Rawalpindi as we arrive at the city’s St. Joseph’s Cathedral. A security […]