Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The Church of England has appointed a former government minister as its first independent chair of safeguarding in a move cautiously welcomed by […]
About three-quarters or more of adults in Spain, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom support taking in refugees from countries where people are fleeing violence and war https://t.co/PhIteHGQob pic.twitter.com/37zgqALRMh […]
Source: Ghana | Myjoyonline.com | Zaina Adamu | Twitter: @ZainaAdamu Date: 18-09-2018 Thorn, a non-profit organization focused on eradicating child sex abuse revealed that more than half (63%) of participants […]
Source: Gulf Times By Michael Nienaber/ Reuters Berlin Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes a new immigration law will make it easier for foreign workers to find jobs in Germany, but her […]
ANADOLU AGENCY WASHINGTON AFP Photo A U.N. representative for Syria on Tuesday praised the agreement reached between Russia and Turkey that has averted what officials had warned could have […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD In this file photograph taken on June 5, 2013, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrives to inspect a guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony at the […]
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA JAKARTA, Indonesia A handout picture released by Greenpeace on 21 March 2012 and taken on 28 February 2012 shows untouched forest in the Sungai Sembilang […]
An Introduction To Yom Kippur, The Jewish Day Of Atonement Source: Huffington Post By HuffPost Religion Editors Dates, prayers, history and more. Yom Kippur begins on October 11 in 2016. Known as the Jewish […]
Recent pledge to grant citizenship to Bengali and Afghan refugees has been well received but doubts remain A Pakistani man sits near a poster of Pakistan’s cricketer-turned politician and head […]
Kamila Hyat September 13, 2018 There has been an outcry in the country over the PTI government’s decision to effectively withdraw Atif Mian, one of the world’s 25 most influential […]
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 Iraqi students walk near a building of the central Library of the University of Mosul, in Mosul, Iraq May […]
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev walks out from the airplane upon his arrival at Qingdao Liuting International Airport […]
Source: The New Yorker By James Carroll With the sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church reaching a critical mass, Pope Francis has issued an unprecedented call to the world’s top bishops to meet […]
Source: Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government announced Monday that it agreed to absorb 1,000 Ethiopian Jews — accepting just a fraction of the African country’s 8,000 remaining […]
Source: NPR BY LAUREN FRAYER For 35 years, O.S. Arun has been a professional singer of Carnatic music, a classical genre popular in South India. It’s an embellished form of singing frequently backed […]
Source: Reuters NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Hindu nationalist group behind the rise of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is opening up to critics and supporters through a first-of-its-kind outreach […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Benedict Rogers, who is East Asia Team Leader at the international human-rights organization CSW and author of “Indonesia: Pluralism in Peril—the Rise of Religious Intolerance Across […]
Source: BBC News China has hit back at President Donald Trump by imposing new trade tariffs on $60bn of American goods. It comes after the US slapped duties on $200bn […]
Source: BBC News Russia has said Syria shot down one of its military planes – but laid the blame for the deaths of the 15 personnel on board with Israel. […]
Source: Time By ALANA ABRAMSON September 17, 2018 The Senate Judiciary Committee said it would hold a public hearing next week with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, […]