Source: NBC News SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea issued another threat Monday, warning of an indiscriminate “pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice” on Washington and Seoul, this time in reaction […]
Source: ABC News On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and rival Bernie Sanders faced off against each other at the seventh debate of the primary season in Flint, Michigan. […]
Source: Tech Crunch Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering (and one of its most popular WWDC presenters) says the FBI’s demands on the company will make all […]
Source: Patheos A year ago, in my own neighborhood of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, three Muslims students lost their lives to a hate crime. I feel the pain and anguish of […]
Researchers say there were shocked to learn that Islam receives more negative coverage than cancer. The New York Times portrays Islam and Muslims more negatively than cancer, cocaine and alcohol, according to a report that studied the newspaper’s headlines. “Since 9/11, many media outlets began profiteering from the anti-Muslim climate. Though you […]
Source: Time “He’s an insane bigot. He is dangerous” Comedian Louis C.K. urged voters to stop supporting Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Saturday, including a lengthy and impassioned plea […]
Source: Huffington Post The Barna Group has been putting out research for years about the decline of Christianity in America. A recent study in 2015 found that “In just two […]
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvilla — Make room for wonder, no matter what your beliefs are. Even if you can only stop by it for 10 seconds every day, having a space for quiet reflection in your home is a reminder to check in with yourself. Whether you’re religious, non-religious, or […]
Source: Gulfnews London, New York: A landmark discovery into the genetic makeup of tumours has the potential to open a new front in the war on cancer, delivering potent therapies […]
Source: The Washington Post By Bob Smietana A veteran religion writer based in Nashville and the immediate past president of the Religion Newswriters Association. Last night I sat on the […]
Donald Trump reverses position on torture, killing terrorists’ families Washington (CNN) Republican front-runner Donald Trump said Friday that he would not order the U.S. military to violate international laws to […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Azzah Sultan, 20, has personally witnessed rampant Islamophobia since moving to America from her native Malaysia in 2013. The young Muslim […]
Source: BBC Presidential contender Donald Trump has come under attack from his rivals at a Republican debate, after a day in which the party’s veteran politicians urged voters to desert him. The front-runner in the Republican race was on the defensive in Detroit as Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz piled […]
Source: Pew Research Center More than four decades after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, opponents and supporters of abortion rights are still battling over the issue in court. This year, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on a case challenging a Texas law that requires abortion clinics in the […]
Source: Pew Research Center While many large religious organizations in the United States allow women to be ordained – and to hold leadership positions within the organization – few women have actually served at the very top. We looked at nine major religious organizations in the U.S. that both ordain […]
Source: BBC Harvard Law School is to change its official seal, after a protest that it had links to slavery. The law school, part of the US university, has a […]
Washington (CNN) Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday that Donald Trump is the most vulgar person to ever run for President of the United States. “Donald Trump has been perhaps […]
Source: Time The Supreme Court was divided along ideological lines in oral arguments on Wednesday in what is perhaps the most important abortion case in a generation, while swing vote Anthony Kennedy appeared to question the medical consequences of changing abortion practices in Texas. The women on the Supreme Court […]
Source: Time By Fred Kaplan On August 9, 2013, a hot, humid Friday, shortly after three in the afternoon, the laziest hour in the dreariest month for news in the […]
The following is the full text of the speech delivered on Thursday by former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 Republican nominee for U.S. president Mitt Romney to the Institute of Politics […]