Tunisian women free to marry non-Muslims
Source: BBC News Tunisia has overturned a law that banned women from marrying non-Muslims. A spokeswoman for President Beji Caid Essebsi made the announcement and congratulated women on gaining “the […]
Switzerland voters likely to weigh in on facial covering ban
Source: Reuters BY John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland could become the latest country to ban facial coverings worn by some Muslim women after activists collected more than the 100,000 […]
Saudi Arabia Detains Critics as New Crown Prince Consolidates Power
Source: The New York Times By BEN HUBBARD Photo Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, last year. Some Saudis see him as a power-hungry upstart who is overturning […]
Hillary Clinton turned to a surprising source for healing after her devastating loss: Pope Francis’s TED Talk
Source: The Washington Post By Colby Itkowitz September 15 https://embed.ted.com/talks/lang/en/pope_francis_why_the_only_future_worth_building_includes_everyone When Pope Francis delivered a surprise TED Talk in late April, he called for powerful people to use their influence to care […]
In Amish Country, the Future Is Calling
Source: The New York Times By KEVIN GRANVILLE and ASHLEY GILBERTSON A young woman, wearing a traditional full-length Amish dress and white bonnet, stepped away from a farmer’s market, opened her palm and […]
President Trump demand ESPN anchor to apologize
The Jemele Hill story will not die, no matter how much ESPN wishes it would. ESPN president John Skipper sent a memo to all of the company’s employees late Friday afternoon, outlining his wish that ESPN remain an apolitical organization, regardless of outside perception.http://nypost.com/2017/09/15/espn-prez-calls-for-employees-help-in-awkward-jemele-hill-memo/ “In light of recent events, we […]
Two Muslim Teens On Navigating Girlhood And Islamophobia In Their America
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES An illustration is seen during a commemoration ceremony at the Federal Plaza in Chicago, IL, United States on June […]
Why Do Bad Hurricanes Happen to Good People?
Source: Huffington Post BY Rabbi Pinchas Allouche, Contributor Spiritual Leader, Congregation Beth Tefillah, Scottsdale, Arizona Why do bad hurricanes and earthquakes happen to good people? And if we believe that G-d […]
The Rohingya in Myanmar: How Years of Strife Grew Into a Crisis
Source: The New York Times By MEGAN SPECIA A military crackdown against the Rohingya ethnic group has driven hundreds of thousands of men, women and children from their homes in Myanmar. The Rohingya […]
Top Catholic Official in Myanmar Speaks Out on Treatment of Rohingya Muslims and the Risks of a Military Coup
Source: Time By Elizabeth Dias Sep 13, 2017 As tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims flee violence in Myanmar and global criticism mounts over the civilian government’s silence on the crisis, the country’s top […]
Rohingya crisis: Meeting Myanmar’s hardline Buddhist monks
Source: BBC News By Fergal Keane The monks of Ma Ba Tha regard the international media with deep suspicion. The leader of the organisation, Ashin Wirathu, covered his head and […]
Belgian order defies pope, insists on allowing euthanasia
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD Yesterday VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Belgian religious congregation is defying Pope Francis’ order to stop allowing euthanasia in its psychiatric hospitals, saying that […]
Curfews, Obligatory Prayers, Whippings: Hard-Line Islam Emerges in Indonesia
Source: The Wall Street Journal By James Hookway Hard-line Islamic groups are challenging Indonesia’s tradition of religious tolerance and secular law. In the Indonesian market town of Cianjur, new rules require […]
100 Women: ‘I dye my hair brown to be taken more seriously at work’
Source: BBC News By Sarah Buckley and Amelia Butterly A Silicon Valley CEO reveals her secret to getting ahead in business – dyeing her blonde hair brown, and ditching her […]
Police Probe Terror on London Tube
Source: CNN By Nick Thompson and Eliza Mackintosh 18 people were taken to hospitals after an explosion at station, none with life-threatening injuries, officials say London (CNN) London police are treating […]
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi to miss UN General Assembly debate
Source: BBC News Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to miss a key UN debate next week as criticism grows of her handling of a crisis involving […]
Rohingya refugees: Choosing what to save and what to leave
Source: BBC News Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been arriving in Bangladesh with minimal belongings they gathered in a last-minute rush. They say they had to flee to […]
Hurricane Irma: Quarter of Florida Keys homes ‘destroyed’
Source: BBC News Hurricane Irma evacuees are returning to scenes of devastation in the Florida Keys with reports of a quarter of homes destroyed on the low-lying islands. The latest […]
Do you know what separates Protestants and Catholics? Many Protestants seem not to.
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer September 13 at 7:00 AM Two open-air streams trickle west toward the Castle Church in East Germany where Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses, sparking the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago. (Eliot Stein For The Washington Post) This year marks the 500th anniversary of the […]
Israel’s Military Exemption for Ultra-Orthodox Is Ruled Unconstitutional
Source: The New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNER SEPT. 12, 2017 Photo Ultra-Orthodox Jews praying at the Western Wall in the Old City area of Jerusalem in June.CreditAtef Safadi/European Pressphoto Agency […]