Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Australian Archbishop Philip Wilson, the most senior cleric found guilty of concealing child sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, […]
Rafia Zakaria Anjum Naveed/AP Images A man on his cell phone sitting in front of a poster showing Imran Khan, head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, which won last week’s […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and RODNEY MUHUMUZA VATICAN CITY (AP) — The nun no longer goes to confession regularly, after an Italian priest forced himself on her while […]
Source: Yahoo News Kiev (AFP) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday condemned the influential Russian Orthodox Church, which counts millions of believers, as a threat to national security. The […]
Jul 30,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby Fifteen years ago, we were still in the early stages of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, “the war that […]
Source: BBC News Thousands of anti-government protesters in Nicaragua have taken part in a march to show support for the Roman Catholic Church. The government accuses Catholic bishops of siding […]
Source: Reuters BY Krishna N. Das NELLIE, India (Reuters) – Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India’s worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban […]
Jul 30,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL It has been reported that US President Donald Trump is pushing for a security and political alliance, involving six Arab Gulf states, Egypt and […]
Source: Associated Press By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER LUCKAU, Germany (AP) — Sophie Steiert opens a bag of kosher gummy bears and offers them to 20 other German teenagers seated around her […]
Source: The New York Times By Hannah Beech GUA MUSANG, Malaysia — Norazila and Ayu were best friends and they shared everything that girls do: sleepovers, selfies, musings about […]
Source: The Washington Post By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli ROME — In a small church in central Italy, a priest told his congregation one recent Sunday morning that the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Taking on positions as clergy in a tradition where women have never been clergy before, they have adopted a variety of titles. Some […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Friday that a landmark 900-page grand jury report about child sex abuse by Catholic clergy should be released […]
Source: The New York Times By Kenneth P. Vogel and Elizabeth Dias WASHINGTON — With a lineup of prayer meetings, humanitarian forums and religious panels, the National Prayer Breakfast […]
Source: BBC News By Christian Jarrett Fictional stories are replete with villains and heroes with an almost magical ability to discern other people’s characters – think Hannibal Lecter or Sherlock […]
Source: BBC News The UK faces a “democratic crisis” with voters being targeted with “pernicious views” and data being manipulated, a parliamentary committee is set to warn. The Digital, Culture, […]
Source: The New Yorker By Bernard Avishai On July 19th, the Israeli Knesset, led by Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, passed a new “basic law,” with the anodyne title of “Israel—The […]
‘We need to learn Arabic quickly, so we could better understand the religion and teach it to you, and return you to it’ Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed addresses his […]
Source: The New Yorker By Rozina Ali A Ph.D. student offers a free Muslim-history walking tour in Donald Trump’s home town. Back when Donald Trump was a Presidential candidate, he […]
Shelley Pascual shelley.pascual@thelocal.com @shelleypascual 4 July 2018 studying in germanyuniversitiesvisasbureaucracy International students from India and Ukraine in Rostock. Photo: DPA In spite of receiving admission offers from universities in Germany, […]