Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and EVA VERGARA VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis became the first pope to publicly denounce a “culture of abuse and cover-up” in the Catholic Church, saying Thursday he was ashamed that neither he nor Chile’s Catholic leaders truly ever listened to victims as […]
Source: Religion News Service By Michele Chabin Students attend a lecture at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, located at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. Photo courtesy of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah JERUSALEM (RNS) […]
Source: The Guardian By Jessica Elgot British Jews are asking ‘Do we have a future?’ says outgoing president of board of deputies Jonathan Arkush speaks to reporters after the meeting […]
Source: The Guardian By Nicola Slawson Faith-based organisations are increasingly stepping in to support the overstretched NHS, research has found. More than 3,500 churches and 200,000 volunteers are working on […]
Source: The New York Times By Katrin Bennhold DEGGENDORF, Germany — When the order came to hang a cross in the entrance of every state building in Bavaria, the mayor […]
Source: Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian prison inmate who killed four people while on furlough committed “terrorist murder” and likely intended to cause more harm, prosecutors said Wednesday […]
Source: Aljazeera By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours Montreal, Canada – Boufeldja Benabdallah knows the shooting at his mosque could have been much worse. When a gunman entered the largest mosque in […]
Source: The Washington Post by James McAuley PARIS — She is a 19-year-old student union president who never wanted to be a culture warrior. But this is France, and Maryam […]
Source: Time By H.A. Hellyer Hellyer is a senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Royal United Services Institute in London, and the author of “A Revolution Undone: […]
Source: Reuters BY Emil Gjerding Nielson, Teis Jensen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark has banned the wearing of face veils in public, joining France and other European countries in outlawing the […]
By Max Walden | 29th May 2018 | @maxwalden_ A Muslim man reads the Koran as he waits for iftar, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque […]
Source: The Daily Times By Busharat Elahi Jamil This dark episode of Spanish history is repeating itself in Pakistan In the 15th Century, the Catholic Monarch Ferdinand II and Isabella […]
Source: CNN The trade penalties, 25% on imported steel and 10% on imported aluminum, take effect at midnight, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told reporters Thursday. Mexico, the EU and Canada immediately announced plans to retaliate with their own tariffs against American products. Trump announced worldwide steel and aluminum tariffs in […]
Source: Guardian By Matthew Weaver, who received the digital editorial individual award at the AOP awards 2010. Before joining the Guardian website in 2001 he was news editor of the […]
Median % across 15 Western European countries who say ____ is important to truly share their national identity: Respecting national institutions/laws 94% Speaking national language 87% Having ancestry there 53% […]
Source: The Telegraph BY Danielle Demetriou The words “spiritual” and “spartan” are not often used to describe properties listed on Airbnb. They are, however, more likely to crop up following […]
Source: Iceland Monitor The Zuist society, founded in 2016 now wish to build a temple in Reykjavik. Leader Águst Arnar Ágústsson says it’s been his dream to build a temple […]
Source: BBC News A leading fashion designer, who made history at New York Fashion Week by having all her models wear headscarves, has been jailed for 18 years for fraud. […]
Source: Reuters MELBOURNE (Reuters) – The Australian Catholic Church has committed to taking part in a new national redress scheme for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse, two top religious […]
Source: Reuters By Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s parliament rejected on Tuesday a bill that would have legalized voluntary euthanasia for terminal patients in the Catholic-majority country by a […]