Source: Huffington Post There is no question that in many parts of the world, including the Middle East, vulnerable religious communities are facing threats to their very survival or serious problems of discrimination. In situations such as these, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) should be able to […]
Source: Youtube This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Are we in a post-racial society? Do we want to be? Anthony Peterson, […]
The moral roots of liberals and conservatives Source: Ted Talks Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we’re left, right […]
By Elizabeth Lesser, who is a bestselling author and the cofounder of Omega Institute, the renowned conference and retreat center located in Rhinebeck, New York. There’s an angry divisive tension […]
Source: BBC A cyber-attack that hit organisations worldwide including the UK’s National Health Service was “unprecedented”, Europe’s police agency says. Europol also warned a “complex international investigation” was required “to […]
Source: Time Malala Yousafzai May 12, 2017 Malala Yousafzai is an education activist from Pakistan. On May 13, Yousafzai will become one of five recipients of the 2017 International Ellis […]
Source: Time By Associated Press (WASHINGTON) — Five current and former Howard University students are alleging in a federal lawsuit that the school didn’t respond quickly and equitably to female […]
Source: Reuters By David Alire Garcia and Theopolis Waters | MEXICO CITY/CHICAGO Mexico’s growing beef industry is targeting Muslim consumers in the Middle East for its prime cuts as it […]
Source: USA Today BY Caroline Glenn, Florida Today MELBOURNE, Fla. — Ninth-graders in Brevard County will keep using a world history textbook, despite fierce debate over its chapter on Islam. The […]
Source: Reuters By Laila Kearney | HUNTINGTON, N.Y. At a Roman Catholic high school in New York’s Long Island suburbs, two dozen visiting Muslim students knelt and prayed while teens […]
Source: Associated Press By SAM HANANEL WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in the nation’s capital said Thursday she won’t act on a request to block President Donald Trump’s revised […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Vice President Pence sought on Thursday to reassure Christian leaders looking for the White House to focus more on the plight of persecuted Christians […]
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Hannah Allam The invitation seemed like no big deal: Would Muslim students at Duke University like to give their call to prayer from the chapel bell […]
Source: The Ne Yorker Zainab Ahmad has prosecuted thirteen international terrorist suspects for the American government. She hasn’t lost yet. By William Finnegan Zainab Ahmad had a small disaster in […]
Source: Associated Press By MEREDITH HOFFMAN AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Many state-funded Texas adoption and foster care agencies routinely deny non-Christian, gay, and unmarried applicants on religious grounds — and […]
Source: Time By Alex Altman,Zeke J Miller 10:09 PM ET President Donald Trump’s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey rocked Washington on Tuesday, raising questions about the future of the […]
Source: Time BY Tessa Berenson 8:27 PM ET When President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey Tuesday, people were quick to cry Nixon. “This is Nixonian,” Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) said. […]
Source: The Washington Post By Rebekah Denn Her face framed by a delicate floral-print headscarf, Amanda Saab stepped into a Safeway. Ninety minutes later, the cashier rang up her groceries: […]
Source: Reuters By Scott Malone | BOSTON When the Masjid Al-Kareem mosque in Providence, Rhode Island, received a threatening letter in November calling Muslims a “vile and filthy people,” its […]
Source: Associated Press By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The first federal appeals court to hear a challenge to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban appeared unconvinced that […]