I cannot sit back in good conscience while the world my generation built is left to turn feral in the hands of right-wing populists and indifferent capitalists Harry Leslie […]
Jun 20,2018 -JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL His Majesty King Abdullah’s talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Amman on Monday were yet another occasion to impress upon the Israeli leader […]
By Gavi Greenspan | June 8, 2018 | (YouTube) (CNSNews.com) – A new survey shows that 19% of Americans believe polygamy is “morally acceptable,” which is up from 17% in […]
Source: BBC By Anthony Zurcher For months we’ve been heading toward this moment, a political conflagration on the border over immigrant policy. But what is Donald Trump’s endgame – and […]
Source: AT It was a curious cargo for a Russian military aircraft: No bombs, no munitions, no troops, only women and children. The aircraft landed in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s Chechnya region, last October. The passengers were relatives of radicalized Russian nationals fighting for Islamic State, held captive in […]
Source: AT High up in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium on June 14, Vladimir Putin shrugged apologetically. The Russian president then reached out to shake the hand of Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman after the Russian national team thrashed their Middle Eastern opponents 5-0 in the opening game of the […]
Source: CNN By Laura Koran, CNN Washington (CNN)US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced the United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council Tuesday, accusing the […]
Guardian: One month before Donald Trump’s administration enacted a policy that allowed the government to take thousands of migrant children from their parents, the president twice told crowds at his rallies that immigrant gang members were not people. “These are animals,” he said in May. Over the weekend, video and photos emerged […]
Source: BBC News By Judith Burns A drama that spans a continent and 2,000 years, includes the execution of a Pope by drowning and a central London car break-in, has […]
Source: Reuters DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – On June 24, when Saudi women are allowed to drive for the first time, Amira Abdulgader wants to be sitting at the wheel, […]
Source; Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Grieving family members joined community leaders Tuesday for a moment of silence to remember a man who died and a dozen others who were […]
Source: NBC News By Priti Salian “When I first saw him at the airport, I was unable to control my emotions,” recalled Amar, referring to the moment he met his […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Melissa Williams-Sambrano PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (RNS) — Yesenia Gonzalez immigrated to Trinidad and Tobago, the twin island Caribbean nation, from Venezuela 40 […]
Source: Religion News Service NABI SALEH, West Bank (RNS) — Bassem and Nariman Tamimi’s squat but expansive one-story home of stucco and tile sits near the highest point of the […]
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald By Sam Rigney The only way to send a clear message to powerful religious organisations about institutional concealment of child sexual abuse is to send […]
Source: The Guardian BY Ben Smee An evangelical group has ramped up demonstrations outside several Brisbane abortion clinics as Queensland prepares to reform its 1899 laws that make abortion a […]
Source: Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Nicaragua’s Roman Catholic hierarchy has suspended a dialogue with the government aimed at ending a two-month political crisis. The Episcopal Conference of Nicaragua […]
Source: The Hill By Brooke Seipel More than 600 members of the United Methodist Church signed on to a letter Monday condemning Attorney General Jeff Sessions for the Trump administration’s […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein and Julie Zauzmer At pulpits across the country, pastors, priests, rabbis and imams delivered impassioned sermons over the weekend, fiercely denouncing the morality of […]