Poland backs down on Holocaust law, moves to end jail terms
Source: Reuters BY Pawel Sobczak WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish lawmakers voted on Wednesday to water down a Holocaust law that angered the United States and Israel, and remove parts that […]
Trump Travel Ban: How It Affects the Countries Image
Source: The New York Times By Rick Gladstone To President Trump’s supporters, the Supreme Court decision upholding his travel ban from seven countries — five with Muslim majorities — was an affirmation […]
‘What’s next?’ Muslims grapple with Supreme Court ruling that they believe redefines their place in America
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail HauslohnerJune 26Email the author Ramy Almansoob’s children have been asking every day for weeks: “Do we have a decision yet? Do we have a decision […]
Travel ban: Trump hails ‘tremendous’ Supreme Court ruling
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has hailed a Supreme Court ruling upholding his travel ban which covers people from several Muslim-majority countries. Lower courts had deemed the ban […]
In Travel Ban Ruling, High Court Repudiates Notorious Japanese Internment Case
Source: NPR BY SCOTT HORSLEY In the sharply divided decision over President Trump’s travel ban, the Supreme Court repudiated a notorious case from the last century: one that justified the internment […]
Abortion and Travel Ban Rulings Are Victory for G.O.P. Tactics on Gorsuch
Source: The New York Times By Elizabeth Dias and Sydney Ember WASHINGTON — The consequences of President Trump’s nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court — and the Republican blockade of […]
Sessions’ pastor addresses ‘firestorm’ over church charges against AG
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)One of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ pastors told her congregation on Sunday that she does not agree with the “zero-tolerance” immigration policies that […]
Presbyterians demur on divestment from fossil fuels
Source: Religion News Service BY Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) — For the third time in a row, the Presbyterian Church (USA)’s General Assembly decided against divesting from companies invested in fossil […]
Does the Supreme Court have a double standard on religion?
Source: CNN BY Analysis by Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)Less than a month ago, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Christian baker who refused to make a […]
Walgreens Pharmacist Refuses To Provide Drug For Ariz. Woman With Unviable Pregnancy
Source: NPR By Kat Chow When 35-year-old Nicole Arteaga walked into a Walgreens in Peoria, Ariz., last Wednesday, she was nine weeks pregnant. But, she says, her doctor had told […]
Supreme Court rules against California law targeting anti-abortion pregnancy centers
Source: USA Today BY Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a major blow to a California law requiring anti-abortion pregnancy centers to inform women about publicly funded […]
Republican tax law hits churches
Source: Politico Republicans have quietly imposed a new tax on churches, synagogues and other nonprofits, a little-noticed and surprising change that could cost some groups tens of thousands of dollars. […]
Southern Baptist Head Urges Evangelicals To Avoid Political Ideology Amid Crossroads
Source: NPR BY Tori Whitley Newly elected Southern Baptist Convention President Pastor J. D. Greear is taking over as leader of the biggest Protestant denomination in the U.S. at an […]
Being human
Source: ET We have strange notions of accountability in Pakistan. We are not satisfied with audit reports or bureaucratic mechanisms that give holistic accounts of performance. No, we enjoy a good berating. The more humiliating the better. Extra points if it is done in front of television cameras and is […]
Immigrant children: Federal judge orders families separated at border be reunited within 30 days
Source: USA Today BY Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY A federal judge in California has ordered U.S. immigration authorities to reunite separated families on the border within 30 days, describing the Trump administration’s handling of […]
Pakistan placed on FATF grey list
Source: Dawn WASHINGTON: Pakistan was officially placed on a terrorism financing watchdog’s grey list on Wednesday, failing the country’s efforts to avoid the designation, diplomatic sources claimed. The report could not be confirmed independently and the FATF did not make an official announcement till late in night. The sources said […]
Why Christians and atheists both need to lose their prejudices
Source: Christian Today By Krish Kandiah I have read quite a lot of books by atheists about Christians. They make tough reading. Sometimes I feel like I have gone 10 rounds in a boxing ring with Mike Tyson with my hands tied behind my back. Arguments, criticisms, personal attacks punch […]
Supreme Court ruling on equal civil partnerships is a ‘fundamental attack on marriage’
Source: CT Their barrister Karon Monaghan QC told the court they had ‘deep-rooted and genuine ideological objections to marriage’. Civil partnerships have been available to same-sex couples since 2004 and offer the same legal and financial protection to couples as marriage. The decision to legalise same-sex marriage in 2014 means […]
Iran’s power struggle plays out in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar
Source: CNN By Nick Paton Walsh and Shirzad Bozorgmehr Tehran (CNN)A series of largely economic protests have unsettled Iran’s capital Tehran, mostly focused around traders in the Grand Bazaar and […]
Bernie Sanders: Sarah Sanders has the right to ‘go into a restaurant and have dinner’
Source: Msn News By: Justin Wise Sen Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday came to the defense of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, saying individuals should “have the right to […]