Source: BBC Islamic State (IS) militants have abducted tens of thousands of civilians from around the Iraqi city of Mosul to use as human shields, the UN says. The group […]
Source: Pew Research Center Roughly one-in-five U.S. adults were raised with a mixed religious background, according to a new Pew Research Center study. This includes about one-in-ten who say they were raised by two people, both of whom were religiously affiliated but with different religions, such as a Protestant mother […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer One sunny afternoon last month, Newton High School football coach Ryan Smith gave his players a different sort of pep talk. “This world’s […]
Source: The Atlantic By EMMA GREEN LYNCHBURG, Va.—When Jerry Falwell founded Liberty University in 1971, he dreamed of transforming the United States. As he put it, “We’re turning out moral revolutionaries.” […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By IAN LOVETT Since becoming an evangelical Christian in college, Laura Robinson has also called herself a Republican. But after watching the video of GOP presidential […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Although Mormons have traditionally been the most Republican religious group in the United States, it appears that they are fleeing this year’s […]
Source: Associated Press By BEN FINLEY NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Khizr Khan, a Muslim-American whose son was killed in Iraq, held back tears Wednesday as he again took on Donald […]
Frontpage Mag, Gender apartheid in the Islamic Republic. October 27, 2016, Dr. Majid Rafizadeh 37 Under Iran’s Islamic laws, women are prohibited from performing basic day-to-day activities. I had firsthand experience of witnessing many of these strange and bizarre bans while living in Iran and other Muslim countries. Millions of women, […]
Source: TOI MELBOURNE: A 29-year-old Indian-origin bus driver was charred to death on Friday when a man set him on fire after pouring some flammable liquid on him in front […]
Source: The Daily Beast The plan to cut off the city of Raqqa, the capital of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, could begin as early as “two weeks,” a U.S. defense official told The Daily Beast Thursday. But which troops would eventually enter Raqqa after it is surrounded—and how the U.S.-led […]
Source:BBC Joanna lost her job in a food processing factory four months ago and is now considering moving abroad.”I don’t see any future for me here, especially after what happened after Brexit,” Joanna says. According to the latest figures, published in August, there are 2.23 million EU nationals working in the […]
Source:BBC Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he has promised God he will clean up his famously vulgar language. Arriving in his home city of Davao after a trip to Japan, […]
Source: CNN ISIS is transforming from a pretentious caliphate-building group to a global terrorist movement, and of all the poorly governed regions, the Af-Pak theater is most ripe for the rise of the ISK. Afghanistan Taliban, Pakistani Taliban, Al Qaeda in the Indian Sub Continent (AQIS) and another dozen groups […]
Source: CNN Donald Trump, trailing his opponent in key battleground states polls less than two weeks from Election Day, said Thursday he’d like to “cancel the election” and be declared the winner.”Just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump,” the […]
Source: The Local Author of the book, To Hell and Back, Ian Kershaw Europe is not slipping into the same dark tunnel of hate and nationalism that it did in […]
Source: The Local “We do not employ women who wear headscarves and do not understand why applicants would expect us to,” the rejection letter said, according to the woman’s lawyer.The woman, who is an experienced dental nurse, now intends to seek damages from the dentist in a labour court, Spiegel […]
Source: The Local Carlos Cesar’s jibe came after Schäuble said Portugal had been “very successful” until the Socialists, on coming to power last year, declared they would “not respect what the former government had agreed.””As everyone knows, the German finance minister is a pyromaniac who tries to present himself as […]
Source: The Local The man, who is a refugee, had admitted to putting up the advertisement offering his baby girl for €5,000, but said it was meant as a joke.On Thursday, the court in the western city of Duisburg decided to restrict contact between the man and his child, national […]
Source: The Guardian By Restoration work takes place on the tomb of Jesus in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The […]
Source: The Guardian BY Alan Evans Cruise was asked about his religion at the premiere of his new film, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Photograph: Samir Hussein/WireImage Tom Cruise has made a rare public comment about his belief in Scientology, saying it is “a beautiful religion”. At the London premiere […]