AP Exclusive: Vatican to interview Chile victim in person
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and EVA VERGARA VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s sex-crimes expert is changing plans and will fly to New York to take in-person testimony […]
Boston police’s social media surveillance unfairly targeted Muslims, ACLU says
Source: Boston Globe By Alanna Durkin Richer ASSOCIATED PRESS FEBRUARY 07, 2018 BOSTON (AP) — A social media monitoring tool used by the Boston Police Department to identify potential threats swept up […]
Trump’s National Prayer Breakfast speech infused with God-and-country references
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey President Trump spoke about America’s religious tradition and the importance of God at the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 8. (Reuters) President Trump delivered […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community hosts Interfaith meeting in Fazal-e-Umar Mosque in Dayton
“If We all fallow the teachings of our own religion, peace will be achieved” said Imam Shamshad of Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Report by Dr Abdul Qudoos Shahid, Dayton, Ohio. In accordance with MLK activities in January, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Dayton Ohio collaborated with local Jewish & Christian Communities to […]
Islam and Christianity: Living Guilt Free
Epigraph: Say Muhammad, “O My servants who have committed excesses against their own souls! despair not of the mercy of Allah, surely Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, He is Most […]
Tamil Nadu: the Indian state to become a global leader in clean energy
Source: BBC News India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu is poised to become a global leader in wind power, according to a new report. But first the state must overcome […]
First Woman To Accuse Nassar Says Church Can Be One Of ‘Worst Places’ To Go For Help
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla BRENDAN MCDERMID / REUTERS Survivor Rachael Denhollander speaks at the sentencing hearing on Jan. 24 for Larry Nassar, a former team USA Gymnastics doctor who […]
Women, Fashion Has You Covered
Source: The New York Times By VANESSA FRIEDMANAPRIL 6, 2017 It is a truism of the history of dress that decade-defining looks generally don’t congeal until quite late in the period […]
Early chaos of Trump’s travel ban set stage for a year of immigration policy debates
Source: The Washington Post By Wesley Lowery and Josh Dawsey February 6 Email the author Iraqi immigrant Hameed Darwish speaks with Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez after being released at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, […]
How Americans came to embrace meditation, and with it, Hinduism
Source: The Conversation This week marks the death anniversary of Mahesh Yogi, the Indian guru who brought transcendental meditation to the West in the sixties and became a spiritual teacher to […]
Women, Fashion Has You Covered
Source: NY Times By Vanessa Friedman The defining sartorial style of the 2010s has begun to emerge. It is a truism of the history of dress that decade-defining looks generally […]
UN rights chief: Intolerance making inroads in Indonesia
Source: Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief says “strains of intolerance” once thought foreign to Indonesia are making inroads in the world’s most populous Muslim […]
Mashal Khan case: Death sentence for Pakistan ‘blasphemy’ murder
Source: BBC News A Pakistani court has sentenced one man to death and handed life terms to five others for murdering a student who was falsely accused of blasphemy. Twenty-five […]
Ex pope Benedict says he is in the last phase of his life
Source: Reuters VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Former pope Benedict said in a letter published in an Italian newspaper on Wednesday that he is in the last phase of life and […]
Draft DHS Report Called for Long-Term Surveillance of Sunni Muslim Immigrants
Source: Foreign Policy Those fitting broad “at-risk” profiles would be targeted for continuous vetting. BY GEORGE JOSEPH | FEBRUARY 5, 2018, 4:53 PM Two Muslim women stand near a fence across the […]
Can LGBT rights and religious rights coexist? Kim Davis-like case tests the waters
Source: The Washington Post Since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015, a slew of controversial cases have raised questions over whether LGBT rights can coexist with religious […]
U.S. Prisons Allow Extremism to Fester, Study Warns
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Jessica Donati Feb. 6, 2018 10:15 a.m. ET Heather Coffman was among the first U.S. prisoners to return to her hometown, in Virginia, after […]
Judge: Baker can refuse to make same-sex wedding cakes
Source: Associated Press BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A California bakery owner can continue to refuse to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples because it violates her Christian beliefs, a judge […]
DNA suggests 10,000-year-old Brit had dark skin, blue eyes
Source: MSN By Jill Lawless LONDON — DNA from a 10,000-year-old skeleton found in an English cave suggests the oldest-known Briton had dark skin and blue eyes, researchers said Wednesday. […]
The Country’s First Safe Injection Facility May Soon Open in Philadelphia. Here’s What You Need to Know
Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME February 6, 2018 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Last month, supervised injection facilities, also known as safe injection facilities (SIFs), were thrust back into the […]