Source: NPR By Jeff Brady The AME Church is holding its convention this week in Philadelphia. Members react to the deaths of five police officers, after a spate of police-related violence rocked Minneapolis and Baton Rouge. LYNN NEARY, HOST: Both of the presumptive nominees canceled campaign events yesterday because of […]
Source: NPR Police officers are struggling with the deaths of five of their own. NPR’s Rachel Martin talks with chaplain Gary Holden, founder of the Police Chaplain Program, about ministering to law enforcement. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Many police departments have chaplains on staff or on call. They sometimes accompany police […]
Source: The New York Times By RICHARD FAUSSET, CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES The service at Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas on Sunday focused on prayers for the two black […]
Source: BBC Bangladesh has said it intends to ban the Islamic television channel, Peace TV, in the wake of the deadly attack on a cafe in the capital, Dhaka. The […]
Source: CNN By Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN)Historians have long been fascinated with the behavior of Mary Todd Lincoln. She was one of the most interesting and polarizing first ladies of […]
Source: Time By Kathleen Hennessy WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, the decision to return early from an overseas trip after a series of shocking shootings will prove to be […]
Source: The Guardian By Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent Police believe the spike in hate crime following the EU referendum was the worst on record. Mark Hamilton, head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), said: “I believe the referendum debate has led to an increase in reporting of hate […]
Following the recent death of the renowned humanitarian Mr Abdul Sattar Edhi in Pakistan, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza […]
Zubair K Khan During current NATO summit in Warsaw, Germany showed willingness to pledge to station rotating military battalions in Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from 2017 as a collective deterrent against Russian adventurism which clearly indicates Europe’s most populous country wants to assume a bigger defence role, within the frameworks […]
Source. The Express Tribune US National Security Council condoles Edhi’s demise The United States National Security Council (NSC) expressed condolences on the demise of prominent Pakistani philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi. […]
Source: My Republica By Shraddha Amatya KATHMNADU, July 11: Religious leaders from the Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, Sikh and Muslim communities were unanimous in commending secularism in the country on Saturday. […]
Source: Pew Research Center As convention nears, most Republicans see a party divided As Republicans and Democrats prepare for their party conventions later this month, a new national survey paints a bleak picture of voters’ impressions of the presidential campaign and the choices they face in November. Overall satisfaction with […]
Source: RNS By Reuters/ Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Brazilian bishop who was accused of turning a blind eye to suspected pedophile […]
Epigraph: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of […]
Source: BBC By Lennox Morrison At Harvey Nichols’ flagship store in Knightsbridge, London, staff have noticed a new and unusual behaviour pattern among shoppers. As customers stroll through the artfully […]
Source: BBC Researchers in Israel have made what they say is the first discovery of a Philistine cemetery. The discovery, made in 2013 and finally revealed on Sunday, may yield […]
Source: BBC By Niki Wilson What has feathers, T-rex-like feet, and a hooked beak that could sever the spinal cord of a horse with one blow? It might sound like […]
Source: Religion News Service By Michele Chabin (RNS) Two hundred people demonstrated outside Israel’s Supreme Rabbinical Court on Wednesday (July 6) to protest the court’s refusal to recognize the authority […]
Source. Asia Times Putin’s phone call put Obama in a fix just as he was preparing to leave for Warsaw for the summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from July 8-9.This was not the moment when Obama can afford to be seen discussing with Putin the nitty-gritty […]
Source: The Local The legislation sets out how to spur integration in a country traditionally slow to embrace newcomers, while laying down their rights and responsibilities in their adopted country. Europe’s largest economy last year took in more than one million asylum seekers, prompting much soul-searching as well as criticism […]