Cross Clash Could Change Rules For Separation Of Church And State
Source: NPR BY NINA TOTENBERG A giant concrete cross standing in the middle of a busy median strip is the latest symbol of a constitutional fight that has raged for […]
American families of missing Uighurs speak out at DC event
Source: Associated Press By CHRISTINA LARSON WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two years after the Chinese government began to detain members of Muslim minority groups in western China, a growing number […]
Analysis: Pope’s sex abuse summit: What it did and didn’t do
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis’ summit on preventing sexual abuse was never going to meet the expectations placed on it by victims groups, […]
George Pell: Why was conviction kept secret?
Source: BBC News They were sex abuse allegations that rocked the Catholic Church and generated enormous interest – only for the case to vanish suddenly from public view for nine […]
Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
Source: The Atlantic BY Derek Thompson In his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour workweek in the 21st century, creating the equivalent […]
Netanyahu Sparks Outrage Over Pact With Racist Party
Source: The New York Times By David M. Halbfinger JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made something of an art form of cutting deals with small Israeli political parties, […]
As Pope Francis hosts summit on abuse, a N.J. priest speaks publicly about how McCarrick allegedly ruined his life
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein Less than a week after Theodore McCarrick became the first cardinal ever defrocked, a New Jersey priest has for the first time agreed to […]
At Vatican summit, talk of destroyed files riles bishops’ critics
Source: Religion News Service BY Jack Jenkinsjackmjenkins VATICAN CITY (RNS) — On a day packed with emotion and unusually direct criticism of the Catholic Church hierarchy, victims of church abuse […]
US religious freedom envoy: Pakistan has ‘desire to change’
Source: Associated Press By JON GAMBRELL ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pakistan has “a desire to change” its ways and be removed from an American blacklist of countries […]
Will the nation’s third-largest church split up over LGBT debate? Leaders try to reach an answer.
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer and Sarah Pulliam Bailey In recent years, the deep division over sexuality in the United Methodist Church has led many in the church to use […]
40-Foot Cross Divides a Community and Prompts a Supreme Court Battle
Source: The New York Times By Adam Liptak BLADENSBURG, Md. — In the back room of the Colmar Manor American Legion post, about a mile from a 40-foot cross honoring […]
12-year-old charged with drawing anti-Semitic graffiti on school playground
By Augusta Anthony, CNN New York (CNN) A 12-year-old boy was arrested and charged with aggravated harassment on Wednesday after anti-Semitic graffiti was found drawn on a schoolyard in Queens […]
Is Saudi Arabia Pulling Pakistan Into War With Iran?
Source: The Atlantic Council BY FATEMEH AMAN For years, the Pakistani government has avoided taking sides between rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia, but now it may be forced to choose. […]
UK: Work begins on rebuilding Baitul Futuh Mosque four years after fire ripped through Morden building
“This scheme – reflecting their high standard of creativity and expertise – will shape the way in which we manage the flow and space in and around this landmark […]
EDUCATION AND MIGRATION , For young migrants, the right to education is a mirage
By Marc-André Miserez THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 25, 2019 A classroom in the province of Idlib in Syria.(Anas Alkharboutli/dpa) On the occasion of the publication of a […]
The Essential Black Muslim Reading List
Black Muslims are not lost in history, even if their history has been disregarded. By Vanessa Taylor February 26, 2019 In 2018, the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported that anti-Muslim […]
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib show Muslim women don’t need saving
The two US congresswomen are shattering all kinds of damaging stereotypes about Muslim women. by Sahar Aziz 26 Feb 2019 US congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were sworn into […]
George Soros: Europe, please wake up
Feb 27,2019 – Jordan Times – Goerge Soros MUNICH — Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion, and the people of Europe need to wake up before it is too late. If they do not, the European Union will go the way of the Soviet Union in 1991. Neither our leaders nor […]
Change in Israel has proved impossible over the decades
Feb 27,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN A leftist Israeli singer warned during a performance last weekend that the next Israeli leader could be Yigal Amir, the man serving a life […]