A growing share of Americans (55%) say the Supreme Court should base its rulings on what the Constitution “means in current times,” rather than what it “meant as originally written.” […]
Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME September 3, 2018 Former Vice President Joe Biden was spotted running in Pittsburgh on Monday, and the internet couldn’t resist turning it into a joke. Biden […]
Abraham Lincoln’s administration sought the advice of Muslims on the issue of slavery. In 1864, General Pasha of Tunisia wrote to the U.S. Sec. of State urging him – “in […]
Source: Huffington Post By Jamilah Pitts CHRISTIANCHAN VIA GETTY IMAGES If the black church seeks to remain a sanctuary of liberation, we have to be willing to recognize how our […]
Source: CNN By Euan McKirdy, CNN (CNN)Two gay women have been caned in Malaysia amid a worsening climate for LGBT individuals in the Muslim-majority Southeast Asian nation. The punishment of […]
Source: Time Text by Sherrilyn Ifill | Photographs by Johnathon Kelso Between 1877 and 1950, more than 4,400 black Americans were killed by lynching in the United States. Our nation has always preferred to […]
By Euan McKirdy and James Griffiths, CNN Yangon, Myanmar (CNN)A Myanmar court has sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison for breaking the Official Secrets Act while investigating […]
OP-ED Ahmadis and Naya-Naya land Democracy rocks. But only for those sufficiently privileged to be able to vote for self-serving change. Cheque please Miranda Husain@humeiwei SEPTEMBER 2, 2018 It’s not […]
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Turbulence in China’s restive far western region of Xinjiang has been caused by “external factors”, […]
Source: Time By GINA MARTINEZ Former ER actress Vanessa Marquez was shot and killed by California police after pointing a BB gun at officers, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Homicide Bureau detectives confirmed. […]
Source: CNN By Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner (CNN)This is the third in a series of three op-eds tracing the long path of Vice President Mike Pence’s ambition, from college, […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Priyadarshini Sen MANIPUR, India (RNS) — Wearing a pale-yellow tallit — the traditional Jewish prayer shawl — Aharon Vaiphei points to a map of Jerusalem […]
Source: Associated Press By AYSE WIETING ISTANBUL (AP) — A senior official in the Orthodox Church says “there’s no going backwards” in granting Ukrainian clerics full ecclesiastic independence from the […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Nithin Coca (RNS) — Indonesia’s President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, a moderate Muslim who enjoys widespread support from the country’s minority religious communities, is resurrecting the […]
Source: The Guardian A Jehovah’s Witness girl may be forced to receive a blood transfusion against her will this weekend when she gives birth in Melbourne. Victoria’s Mercy hospital was […]
Source: BBC News India’s Supreme Court has dismissed a case against an actress over a movie scene that a Muslim group had argued was “blasphemous”. Priya Varrier is seen winking during a song in the video, which has gone viral in India this year. The accusers said winking and giggling […]
Source: The Guardian Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has cancelled a planned contest inviting people to submit a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad following death threats and large-scale protests in Pakistan. “To […]
Source: Reuters By Byron Kaye, Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Catholic church in Australia said on Friday it would oppose laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they […]
Source: Vox By Fr. Patrick Gilger I should not be so shocked. As a Jesuit, a Roman Catholic priest — as somebody who lives and breathes the church — I should […]
Source: Al Jazeera By Umut Uras A US pastor under house arrest in Turkey is prepared take his case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) unless the Turkish judiciary sets […]