Guardian: With a release timed to coincide with Muharram, the Islamic new year, on 11 September, this very reverent documentary proffers an access-all-areas look at the Haram, the Great Mosque of Mecca (or Makkah), built to house Islam’s most holy shrine, the Kaaba. Only Muslims are permitted to enter Mecca, […]
Source: NPR By SARAH SCHNEIDER During the first Mass of the school year, two students at St. Bernard Elementary School in suburban Pittsburgh stand in front of the congregation and lead […]
Source: Washington Post By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. September 5 at 2:55 PM The men having sex inside the Volkswagen Beetle were so involved that a Miami-Dade police officer said he […]
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: Yahoo News BY Nick Bromberg The College of the Ozarks wants you to know it does not like Nike’s ad campaign with Colin Kaepernick. The private Christian school located south of […]
Matt Tootle: Notts County defender says gambling ‘rife in football’ Source: BBC News Notts County defender Matt Tootle says gambling is “rife” in football as he revealed his own problems […]
Source: BBC News In a historic decision, India’s Supreme Court has ruled that gay sex is no longer a criminal offence. The ruling overturns a 2013 judgement that upheld a […]
Source: BBC News Empress Nur Jahan was the most powerful woman in 17th Century India. She played an unprecedented role in running the vast Mughal empire. Historian Ruby Lal explains […]
Saudi Arabia Seeks Death Penalty in Trial of Outspoken Cleric Source: The New York Times By Ben Hubbard LONDON — Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor is seeking the death penalty for […]
Source: Associated Press BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — A district in Indonesia’s deeply conservative Aceh province has banned unmarried couples from sitting at the same table in restaurants, cafes or coffee shops, an official said Wednesday. The head of Bireuen district’s Islamic affairs office, Jufliwan, said the measure also forbids […]
Source: The Guardian The future of Songs of Praise-style religious programmes on Belgian television has been thrown into doubt after a Catholic lay reader gave an on-screen Bible reading calling for women […]
Source: Religion News Service By Doreen Ajiambo KAMPALA, Uganda (RNS) – On a recent Sunday morning, hundreds of worshippers gathered at Jehovah Pentecostal Church in Kisenyi, a slum on the outskirts […]
Source: Reuters BY Lin Taylor COPENHAGEN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Relegated to the basement, silenced by the imam and barred from the front door, some Muslim women have had enough […]
China Has Detained Up to a Million Muslims. Here’s What You Need to Know Source: Bloomberg By Karen Leigh China’s efforts to quash what it says is separatism and religious […]
Muslimische Mädchen mit Deutschlandfahnen bei einer Versammlung der Ahmadiyya. Foto: Ronald Wittek/dpa Before the Annual Meeting of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany, the members are emphasising their loyalty to […]
Source: Reuters COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – About 50 Rohingya Muslim refugees gathered in a muddy sports field in a camp in Bangladesh on Wednesday to protest against the conviction […]
Source: The Guardian By Dan Sabbagh Labour’s ruling body has agreed to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism in full after a tense meeting in which an accompanying […]
Man who stabbed American tourists in Amsterdam names Wilders, cites ‘insults’ to Islam Source: Reuters AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A man who stabbed two American tourists at Amsterdam’s central station last […]
Source: The Guardian BY Tom Beasley Towards the end of Desiree Akhavan’s incendiary sophomore feature, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Chloë Grace Moretz’s central character attacks the anti-LGBT Christians running the conversion […]
Source: New York Times Ben Frisch opened his Feb. 14 pre-calculus class at Friends Seminary the same way that he opened all his classes over the course of his 34 […]