Source: The Star Calgary By EVAN RADFORD StarMetro Calgary CALGARY—A Calgary church is calling on federal MP and minister of border security Bill Blair to take action over two upcoming sermons planned […]
Source: Reuters HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s government watchdog reprimanded Foreign Minister Timo Soini on Tuesday for taking part in an anti-abortion vigil during an official visit to Canada. Finland’s Foreign […]
Source: Religion News Service By Doreen Ajiambo KAMPALA, Uganda (RNS) – Thousands of faithful in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are staying home from church services to avoid contracting or spreading […]
Source: Bloomberg By John Follain While Pope Francis battles rare criticism from senior clergy in the Vatican, he’s facing a warning that the Roman Catholic Church risks devastating division from Asia. […]
Source: Reuters EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May pledged on Monday to protect British Jewish identity and Israel’s right to defend itself, in an attack on opposition leader Jeremy […]
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 […]