salon.com: Those who oppose admitting more refugees in Western countries often ask why other countries aren’t taking them. The reality is they are. In fact, the five wealthiest countries — which make up half the global economy — are hosting less than 5 percent of the world’s refugees, while […]
BBC: Muslim farmers in a village in near the city of Gojra in Pakistan’s Punjab province are putting their savings together and helping build a church for the Christians in their neighbourhood. How does such tolerance and harmony exist in a place known for religious violence? Saba Eitizaz explores. Watch:
Religion has played an enormous role in British public life, but not lately. We can be grateful not to be fighting religious wars or repressing Bible translations. We should be glad that in the 19th century Britain did finally offer Catholics full political rights. Perhaps we should be content with […]
Courtesy of InterFaith Works of Central New York May 29, 2016 at 6:00 AM, updated May 29, 2016 at 6:02 AM This feature is coordinated by The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com and InterFaith Works of CNY. Follow this theme and author posted Sunday through Saturday. By Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal In the Name […]
Source: The New York Times By JENNIFER MILLER When Dan Diamond was 12, his mother gave him a book titled “It All Begins With a Date: Jewish Concerns About Intermarriage.” […]
Source: Associated Press By ANNA GRONEWOLD and JONATHAN DREW In this June 2016 photo released by the Hoke County (N.C.) Sheriff’s Office, Thomas Russell… Read more RAEFORD N.C. (AP) — A […]
Source: RNS By Yonat Shimron (RNS) One year after the Supreme Court ruled that gays can legally marry across the country, and at a time when most polls show a majority […]
By Christian Teevs REUTERS A Brexit supporter at a Vote Leave rally in London. The pro-Brexit camp is pointing to Switzerland and Norway as models for how Britain could take advantage of the common European market without being an EU member. Experts say those prospects are a “fantasy.” For Nigel […]
Source: Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein The horrific killings at a gay club in Orlando by a Muslim man who reportedly swore loyalty to the Islamic State set off immediate […]
Source: BBC Eddie Justice sent a series of terrified texts to his mother from a bathroom as the gunman made his way through gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando. His mother […]
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin Why scientists say the Zika panic surrounding the Olympics is overhyped The 2016 Olympics in Rio are around the corner, and doctors and athletes alike are […]
Source: Time By Daniel D’Addario If the gunman who shot and killed 50 people in an attack on the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse sought not merely to end life but to […]
By Riham Alkousaa, Julia Klaus, Ann-Katrin Müller and Maximilian Popp Julia Unkel / DER SPIEGEL Cases of sexual assault in German refugee shelters are on the rise, with women and children facing the greatest danger. Despite pleas for help from the government, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition has done little to […]
Source: Tim By Zeke J Miller / Orlando The cell phones rang hauntingly inside the bloodied and ransacked nightclub. Hours had passed since the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, and family members waiting for news of their loved ones’ fates had little to do but to call and call — […]
Source: Time By Philip Elliott / Cleveland For the first time Monday, Americans will confront the stark choice they face in November as the two presidential candidates respond to a crisis unfolding in the midst of the campaign — theworst mass shooting in U.S. history. Their initial responses already outlined the […]
Source: Time By Jared Malsin/Istanbul ISIS claimed responsibility for the mass shooting attack in an Orlando gay club on Sunday that left at least 50 people dead. “The attack that targeted a nightclub for homosexuals in Orlando, Florida, and that left more than 100 dead and wounded was carried out by […]
Source: BBC The father of a gunman who killed dozens of people in an Orlando gay club says he did not know that his son had a “grudge in his […]
Source: Time By Katie Reilly An Italian newspaper is facing backlash after it distributed annotated copies of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” with a paid supplement in its Saturday edition. Il Giornale—a […]
Source: Time By Darlena Cunha Darlena Cunha is a contributor to TIME. The Internet has all but extinguished any hope parents ever had It’s impossible to be a parent in 2016. […]
Source: RNS By Cathy Lynn Grossman (RNS) Creationist Christian tourists may soon flock to the Ark Encounter, a literal vision of Noah’s story in Genesis come to life in July […]