Pope defrocks 2 Chilean bishops accused of sex abuse
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday defrocked two more Chilean bishops accused of sexually abusing minors, and to show […]
Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI Elevated To Sainthood
Source: NPR By CAMILA DOMONOSKE Oscar Romero, the murdered archbishop of San Salvador who spoke up for the poor and oppressed, and Pope Paul VI, the former pontiff who declared birth […]
Internet Connectivity Seen as Having Positive Impact on Life in Sub-Saharan Africa
Source: Pew Research Center BY LAURA SILVER AND COURTNEY JOHNSON Young Somali women look at a smartphone at Dadaab refugee complex, in northeast Kenya, on April 16. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images) Sub-Saharan Africa has […]
China admits to locking up Uyghurs, but defends Xinjiang crackdown
Source: CNN By Ben Westcott and Nanlin Fang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) China has fiercely defended an escalating crackdown in the far western province of Xinjiang as necessary for security, claiming inmates […]
Saudi Arabia to acknowledge ‘murdering’ Khashoggi, planned abduction gone wrong: report
DAILY SABAH WITH WIRES People wait to enter Saudi Arabia’s Consulate in Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. (AP Photo) Saudi Arabian officials are preparing a report that will acknowledge Washington […]
Talking About God, Its Use, Misuse and Abuse?
It’s Getting Harder to Talk About God Source: NY Times By Jonathan Merritt, who writes about the intersection of religion, culture and politics. The decline in our spiritual vocabulary has […]
Australia Seeks to Ban Schools From Expelling Gay Students After Public Outcry
Source: Time By LAIGNEE BARRON Australia will ban schools from expelling gay students after a leaked report revealed the practice was enforced at some religious schools, according to Agence France-Presse. The report, commissioned […]
Yemen could be ‘worst famine in 100 years’
Source: BBC News The United Nations is warning that 13 million people in Yemen are facing starvation. It’s calling on the military coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, to halt air […]
Video: Asteroid Twice the Size of the Statue of Liberty Heading Toward Earth
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Journalists Hid Identity of Key Source While Spreading Their Khashoggi Disappearance Narrative
BY BRIAN CATES October 12, 2018 News Analysis A story broke last week that a Saudi journalist named Jamal Khashoggi, who was working for The Washington Post, had disappeared and […]
Armageddon Postponed: Syria’s Idlib Province Gets New Lease on Life
The looming military offensive on the Idlib province in Syria has been called off for now. People there are yearning to return to normal life and rapidly planning for the […]
Germany’s Extremism ProblemOfficials Zero In on Neo-Nazi Terror Cell
In the wake of far-right unrest in the eastern German city of Chemnitz, investigators have uncovered a suspected neo-Nazi terror cell thought to have been planning a major attack. The arrests […]
Escaping Pakistani persecution, Ahmadi activist finds refuge — and purpose — in US
August 1, 2017 Members of the Ahmadi Muslim community hold the names of victims as they stand over their graves in Chenab Nagar, located in Punjab’s Chiniot District, about 125 […]
Khashoggi Case Raises Tensions Between Saudi Prince and Turkish President
Source: The New York Times By David D. Kirkpatrick and Ben Hubbard ANKARA, Turkey — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has long cast himself as a champion of the Arab Spring […]
Poland vetoes EU rights report not citing Christians, Jews
Source: Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government says it is vetoing the adoption of an annual report on the European Union’s guiding civil rights document because it did […]
Celebrity Jewish-Arab wedding stirs mixed feelings in Israel
Source: Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A surprise celebrity wedding bridging Israel’s Jewish-Muslim divide drew mixed public reaction on Thursday in a country where such inter-marriage is extremely rare. Wednesday’s nuptials […]
Islamists rally in Pakistan for death sentence for Christian
Source: Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Hundreds of supporters from an extremist Islamist party have rallied in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore to pressure judges to uphold a death […]
Egypt sentences 17 to death for Coptic Christian church attacks
Source: BBC News Seventeen people have been sentenced to death by an Egyptian military court over their involvement in bomb attacks on Coptic Christian churches. A further 19 people were […]
IS reverting to insurgency tactics after losing caliphate
Source: Associated Press By BASSEM MROUE BEIRUT (AP) — After being nearly defeated on the battlefields of its would-be caliphate, the Islamic State group has reverted to what it was […]
Salvadoran priest Óscar Romero to be declared saint by Pope Francis
Source: The Guardian Óscar Romero, the Salvadoran priest who championed social justice for the poor and dispossessed, will be proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis in a canonisation ceremony in Rome on […]