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By Rafiq A. Tschannen on February 24, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Wary of Xinjiang backlash, China invites waves of diplomats to visit

THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 21, 2019   FILE PHOTO: Residents at the Kashgar city vocational educational training centre attend a Chinese lesson during a government organised visit in […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on February 24, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Forced to beg, Senegal’s “talibes” face exploitation and abuse

THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 22, 2019   Abdel Rahman, 20, a former Koran student, called a talibe, who became a karate coach at Maison de la Gare, an […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on February 24, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Illegal immigration, refugees top Arab-EU Summit agenda

MOHAMED AL-SHAMAA February 24, 2019  Heads of state, officials from EU and Arab League member countries to attend summit today Some 19.5 million people globally have been forced to flee […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on February 24, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

Saudi Arabia announces princess as US ambassador

Source: BBC Saudi Arabia has announced that Princess Rima bint Bandar al-Saud will become its next ambassador to the US – the first woman ever to take on an envoy […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on February 24, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Sajid Javid’s selfish ambition eclipsed his judgement – and now Shamima Begum has the moral high ground

He wants to defend national security and impress a public understandably appalled by Begum. Yet she may be a larger threat to western security as a stateless figure at large […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Billionaire New England Patriots’ Owner Robert Kraft Falls To Show Us Need of Religion

Epigraph: And he who turns away from the remembrance of the Gracious God, We appoint for him a satan, who becomes his companion. (Al Quran 43:36/37) New England Patriots Owner […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( 3 Comments )

How Islam Taught Medieval Christian Europe Religious and Political Tolerance

Epigraph: Allah forbids you not, respecting those who have not fought against you on account of your religion, and who have not driven you forth from your homes, that you […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

In New England, battling the opioid crisis with a mix of science and faith

Source: Religion News Service BY Amanda Greene NEW HAVEN, Conn. (RNS) — Doreen Abubakar arrived at Manjares Restaurant and Fine Pastries in New Haven, Conn., catching her breath and waiting […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Macron announces crackdown on anti-Semitism in France

Source: BBC News French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new measures to tackle anti-Semitism, following a spate of attacks. He told Jewish leaders that France would recognise anti-Zionism – the […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Vatican’s legal procedures for handling sex abuse, explained

Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — For centuries, the Vatican’s canon law system busied itself with banning books and dispensing punishments that included burnings at the […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

The Catholic Church’s Battle Between Rhetoric and Reality

Source: The Atlantic BY RACHEL DONADIO ROME—Pope Francis opened a highly anticipated meeting about the sexual-abuse crisis in the Catholic Church with remarks that were strong, brief, and to the point. “The […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

British attitudes on national identity and religious minorities not unique in EU

Source: Pew Research Center BY OMKAR JOSHI AND JONATHAN EVANS Two women watch a 2017 parade in honor of St. George, England’s patron saint. His emblem, a red cross on a white background, […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Their parents joined ISIS. They were raised in the caliphate. Can they come home?

Source: The Washington Post By Michael Birnbaum February 17 RANST, Belgium — The children’s voices crackled through the phone and into Fatiha’s gray-walled living room. “When are we going to Grandma’s?” one […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

‘I think it’s long overdue’: Catholics in D.C., where McCarrick once presided, are both relieved and dismayed

Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer, Katherine Shaver and Maria Sacchetti For decades, he was one of the faces of the Catholic church, representing the Vatican all over the world — and nowhere […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

The little-noticed transformation of Islam in the West

Source: The Economist Islam frightens many in the West. Jihadists kill in the name of their religion. Some Muslim conservatives believe it lets them force their daughters to marry. When asked, […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( 2 Comments )

Southern Baptist president says database of abusers possible

Source: Associated Press By TRAVIS LOLLER ASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than a decade after the Southern Baptist Convention rejected the idea of creating a database of ministers credibly accused […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )

Vatican defrocks former US cardinal McCarrick for sex abuse

Source: Associated Press By FRANCES D’EMILIO, NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS VATICAN CITY (AP) — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty by the Vatican of sex abuse and […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

Russia and China Are Driving a Wedge Between Estranged U.S. and Europe

Source: Time By SIMON SHUSTER / MUNICH  February 18, 2019 During his speech to the Munich Security Conference in 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a prediction that many in the West […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

A global look at the Catholic Church’s sex abuse problem

By Nicole Winfield VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis’ high-stakes sex abuse prevention summit is meant to call attention to the crisis as a global problem that requires a global response. His decision was sparked by the realization that in many parts of the world, bishops and religious superiors continue […]

By Zia H Shah on February 23, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )

War memorial or religious symbol? Cross fight reaches U.S. high court

BLADENSBURG, Md. (Reuters) – When Fred Edwords first drove by the 40-foot-tall (12 meters) concrete cross that has stood for nearly a century on a busy intersection in suburban Maryland […]

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