I spent my career in the British Army and I know the dangers of privatising the battlefield The expansion of the roles taken on by private sector security companies in […]
Isis may have been defeated a year ago in Mosul, but the ideology that caused it to grow lives on One year ago, Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi declared that […]
Jul 12,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh The current state of inter-Arab and intra-Arab affairs is entirely unacceptable. For decades, there have been jealousies, frictions and even levels […]
By Amanda Jackson and Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) A woman wearing a Muslim head scarf on a New York transit bus going to Staten Island was subject to racial taunts […]
Source: Time By JULIA GLUM July 11, 2018 Within hours of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement last month, Emily Hauser was standing at a drugstore counter asking a pharmacist for two […]
Source: Time By SOPHIA GOTTFRIED Hummus, the chickpea-based dip that’s a staple in many Middle Eastern cuisines, is on the rise in the U.S. Multiple factors are fueling its growing popularity, according […]
Source: Associated Press By ASSOCIATED PRESS Papa John’s says founder John Schnatter has resigned as chairman of the board. The company made the announcement late Wednesday, hours after Schnatter apologized for […]
Source: Time By TESSA BERENSON/BRUSSELS As a contentious North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Brussels began to wind down on Thursday, President Donald Trump claimed victory over defense spending and reaffirmed […]
Source: BBC News The cave complex in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their football coach were trapped for more than two weeks is set to be turned into a […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rachel Wearmouth The Mayor of London was recently asked what he would do were Donald Trump to visit his city. Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim to lead not […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Adelle M. Banks (RNS) — For two and a half years, Ja’mel Armstrong and Matt Ness have jointly led One Church, a congregation striving to be […]
Source: Aljazeera By Lorelei Mihala 8 Jul 2018 Bucharest, Romania – In the basement of a new building in Giulesti, a neighbourhood on the periphery of Bucharest, pastor Peter Rong […]
Source: Reuters COLOMBO (Reuters) – A 37-year-old Sri Lankan Buddhist monk on Tuesday assaulted and strangled a police officer who sought to arrest him on a warrant for alleged sexual […]
Source: DW His controversial views have stirred much debate in Germany. Now Thilo Sarrazin has written a new book about Islam – and is battling his erstwhile publisher in court […]
Source: The Star Halifax By Brett Bundale HALIFAX—International Buddhist leader Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche is apologizing for the “pain, confusion and anger” sweeping through the Shambhala community amid sexual misconduct allegations […]
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is drafting guidelines to help Catholic dioceses find appropriate ways to decommission unneeded churches so they don’t end up as discos, […]
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The Church of England will create more than 100 new churches to “revive the Christian faith in coastal areas, market towns and […]
Source: Reuters BY Stephen Kalin RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is preserving pre-Islamic heritage sites, like a date palm oasis from the Stone Age, in a break with the austere […]
Source: Religion News Service By Eileen Flynn AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — For some watching (and blogging and tweeting) the debate on the floor of the Episcopal Church’s triennial General Convention this […]
Source: San Antonio Express News By John MacCormack VICTORIA – When Kristopher Thompson’s parents told him on Jan.28, 2017 that the mosque in Victoria had just burned, his first impulse […]