BY PHILLIP CONNOR The number of illegal entries into Europe by migrants hit a high point last year, and as their numbers increased, a picture emerged of the land and sea routes many migrants are taking to get there. In 2015, more than 1.8 million people crossed the European Union’s […]
Women are generally more religious than men, particularly among Christians Standard lists of history’s most influential religious leaders – among them Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) – tend to be predominantly, if not exclusively, male. Many religious groups, including Roman Catholics and Orthodox Jews, allow only men […]
Source: The Age Whether or not you are a practising Christian, Easter is a time to think about religious traditions. The ongoing proceedings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child […]
Source: Quartz The alarming exploitation of the Brussels attacks for political purposes shows how urgent it is to take back the discourse around Islam and Muslims from racists and extremist populists like Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen. Instead of leaving the field wide open for the big-mouthed bigots and […]
Source: BBC Tuesday’s devastating attacks in Brussels, in which more than 30 people died and scores were injured, are the latest phase of the war on Europe declared by the […]
Source: BBC If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Words of wisdom heralded throughout our upbringing, to be sure. But is there any scientific proof that successive failure […]
Source: Motto By Tara Mohr The creator of the Playing Big leadership program for women and author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead. ‘Good work is almost never met exclusively with praise’ In my late 20s, I worked for a large […]
huffingpost.ca 2016/03/21 OTTAWA — The Liberals all but flipped off the lights on Canada’s Office of Religious Freedoms, voting Monday against a Tory motion to keep open the controversial post and saying that its stand alone status is over. The writing has been on the wall for the office since […]
Source: Aljazeera What’s happening to American democracy? With a populist billionaire demagogue winning support on the right, a self-declared socialist confounding US historical prejudices on the left and millions of […]
Source: CNN (CNN)Radovan Karadzic, nicknamed the “Butcher of Bosnia,” was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after being found guilty of genocide and other crimes against humanity over atrocities that Bosnian Serb forces committed during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995. A special U.N. court in The Hague, […]
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/belgium-bureaucratic-chaos-partly-to-blame-for-attacks-a-1083806.html#ref=nl-international They were so proud last Friday when police managed to apprehend Salah Abdeslam. Finally, Europe’s most-wanted terrorist was locked away. The Belgian government was so relieved that they immediately released a photo to the world showing Prime Minister Charles Michel, with French President François Hollande seated next to […]
Source: Huffington Post By Christian Chiakulas; Writer, activist, and musician from Chicago John Dominic Crossan closes the main text of his 1994 book Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography with the question: […]
Source. The daily Beast. A new video released by a pro-ISIS media platform on Thursday uses Donald Trump’s words on the Brussels attack to illustrate the group’s success in attacking Europe. “Brussels was one of the great cities, one of the most beautiful cities of the world 20 years ago,” […]
Source. CNN Brussels: It’s a quaint but bustling city, famed for its picture postcard squares, its chocolate and its beer. But it is rapidly becoming infamous, too, asa fertile recruiting ground for jihadi fighters. For months, Belgian authorities and the public here had lived in fear of attack by home-grown […]
Source: Hamilton Spectator ByAhmed Sahi “Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.” Since the dreadful attacks in Brussels, there’s been a barrage of pundits and political figures throughout […]
Reuters International MAR 24, 2016 – 16:22 By Thomas Escritt and Toby Sterling THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in jail by U.N judges who found him guilty of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and of nine other war crimes […]
MIGRATION CRISIS By Gaby Ochsenbein, Piraeus, Greece MAR 24, 2016 – 11:02 Kristina Häsler tries to improve the situation of refugees living in an improvised tent camp in the Greek port of Piraeus (swissinfo.ch) The Greek port of Piraeus is currently home to 4,000-5,000 refugees, who live in warehouses and […]
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Mar 24, 2016 The Associated PressDemonstrators gather outside the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia before the trial of former Bosnian […]
Report: World’s Happiest Countries Are Also Least Religious March 17, 2016 by Michael Stone 42 Comments The world’s happiest countries are also the world’s least religious countries according to a new report released by the World Happiness Index. Science Alert reports that every year, the World Happiness Index surveys numerous people from various countries around the world […]
By Ro Waseem March 23, 2016 17:34 GMT ibtimes.co.uk “Isis has nothing to do with Islam!” has become the mainstream response by Muslims to jihadist attacks. As a Muslim myself, I find it grotesque to observe the impunity with which jihadists murder innocent civilians, chanting the name of God who, in […]