By Lynn Garrett | Jan 25, 2019 Wrestling with Religious Freedom Evolving ideas about which civil rights should be protected by law are increasingly clashing with what some see as the principles and practices of their religious groups. A baker in Colorado who refused to make cakes for gay weddings […]
Muslim people are challenging the typical views of their community They are hosting an Australia Day BBQ inviting everyone to their mosque #MuslimsForLoyalty say ‘It is our responsibility to promote […]
Source: Swiss info Jan 25, 2019 BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s population last year reached a record high of 83 million people due to positive net migration that easily offset a […]
Jan 26, 2019 By Martin Petty MANILA (Reuters) – A predominantly Muslim area of the southern Philippines has returned a resounding “Yes” in this week’s referendum on greater autonomy, […]
Jan 25, 2019 By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has loosened travel restrictions in the hope of reviving tourism by offering visas on arrival to visitors from 50 countries […]
Looking to Venezuela, it’s clear the US, UK and allied governments have learned nothing from their disastrous actions in the Middle East and North Africa over the past 20 years […]
Source: The Washington Post By Philip Rucker January 21 President Trump watched on television, increasingly angry as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan criticized his handling of the deadly white supremacist rally […]
Source: The Washington Post By Robert Barnes and Dan Lamothe January 22 The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Trump’s broad restrictions on transgender people serving in the military to go into […]
Source: The Washington Post By Matt Viser MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. — Two years ago, Jeff Daudert was fed up with politics. He wanted to shake up the status quo. He didn’t mind […]
Source: PRI By Tania Karas For the past 15 months, a Mennonite church in Columbus, Ohio, has offered sanctuary to an undocumented immigrant mother from Mexico who sought to avoid deportation. […]
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter and Amr El-Tohamy CAIRO (RNS) – Egypt’s skyrocketing divorce rate has spurred a debate among Muslim religious leaders and government officials about how […]
Source: BBC News Amnesty International says Iran arrested 7,000 people last year in a “shameless campaign of repression”. Those swept up by the crackdown included protesters, students, lawyers, journalists, environmental […]
Source: Associated Press By STEPHEN WRIGHT and NINIEK KARMINI JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A polarizing Christian politician whose campaign comments ignited the largest protests in years in Muslim-majority Indonesia was […]
Source: PRI By Patrick Winn Rodrigo Duterte delights in shock value. He’s threatened to slap UN officials. He once told former US President Barack Obama to “go to hell.” As for his signature policy, […]
Source: Washington Post Fenit Nirappil and Michelle Boorstein D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine is proposing legislation to add clergy to the list of “mandatory reporters” who must tell authorities about suspected […]
Source: Trending.pk Tunzale Memmedzade has done what no one has ever done. The 33-year-old decorative artist from Azerbaijan has written the complete Quran on pages made out of thin black silk. […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED AND JEFF DIAMANT Even in the early 20th century, when Islam had little presence in most parts of the United States, the religion had a foothold in […]
Source: Reuters BY Andrew Osborn ORYOL, Russia (Reuters) – The first Jehovah’s Witness detained for extremism in Russia has likened the authorities’ behavior to that of Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union ahead […]