Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein and Julie Zauzmer At pulpits across the country, pastors, priests, rabbis and imams delivered impassioned sermons over the weekend, fiercely denouncing the morality of […]
Source: Time By Ciara Nugent June 18, 2018 iPhones will soon automatically share your location with first responders when you call 911, thanks to a new partnership between Apple and […]
Source: Time By Jamey Keaten and Maria Cheng / AP (GENEVA) — Obsessive video gamers know how to anticipate dangers in virtual worlds. The World Health Organization says they now […]
Source: Time By Alix Langone Nearly 2,000 migrant children have been separated from their parents at the border as part of the Trump administration’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy on border […]
By Reuters – Jun 20,2018 – JORDAN TIMES W UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura gives a press conference closing a round of peace talks at the European […]
Imagining the Arabs Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam by Peter Webb Who are the Arabs? When did people begin calling themselves Arabs? And what was the Arabs’ role in the rise of Islam? Investigating these core questions about Arab identity and history through close interpretation of pre-Islamic evidence […]
Source: DW In the year since its foundation, Berlin’s liberal mosque has established itself and is attracting ever greater interest. But lawyer Seyran Ates, who opened the mosque, lives with […]
Source: US News By MIRIAM KAROUT, Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Almost 80 years after the first “Kindertransport” evacuations of Jewish children to safety in Britain, 42 people set […]
Source: The Guardian BY Carmela Fonbuena in Manila In the Philippines, where Catholicism is dominant and divorce is still illegal, a young atheist, openly gay lawyer is leading a historic […]
Source: The New York Times By Carlotta Gall June 18, 2018 ISTANBUL — Public schools are closing, on little or no notice, and being replaced by religious schools. Exams are […]
Source: Associated Press OSORNO, Chile (AP) — A papal emissary asked forgiveness Sunday from Roman Catholics in a region of Chile where people bitterly protested a now-resigned bishop who had […]
Source: Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Jewish artifacts, including ancient parchment torahs from one of the world’s oldest synagogues, have gone missing from the Syrian capital amid the tumult of […]
Source: Associated Press By RAHIM FAIEZ KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Avtar Singh Khalsa will represent Afghanistan’s tiny Sikh and Hindu minority in the next parliament, where he says he hopes […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Priyadarshini Sen KOLKATA (RNS) — Last year, Hasan Sharif, a 27-year-old Rohingya, observed Eid al-fitr while hiding from Myanmar soldiers in a stranger’s home. His […]
Source: CNN By Hilary Clarke, Valentina DiDonato and Carol Jordan (CNN)Pope Francis compared having an abortion to avoid birth defects to the Nazi era idea of trying to create a […]
Source: CNN By Bukola Adebayo, CNN Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Twin bomb blasts at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 20 people and wounded scores more, local police told CNN. […]
Source: The Guardian BY Dan Sabbagh A tribunal has ordered that secret Downing Street files relating to Anglo-Indian relations at the time of the 1984 massacre at the Golden Temple […]
Source: BBC News By Tali Sharot From Aeon 15 June 2018 Some of the most important decisions you will make in your lifetime will occur while you feel stressed and […]
By Anushay Hossain, who is a writer and political commentator based in Washington. For more, visit AnushaysPoint.com. The views expressed are her own. (CNN) — When Ivanka Trump took the […]
Source: BBC News By Brandon Ambrosino Siri, do you believe in God? “Humans have religion. I just have silicon.” Siri, do you believe in God? “I eschew theological disquisition.” Siri, […]