Religious movements
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Spanked and Brainwashed: Raised by a Born Again Christian, This Maltese Man Escaped
Belt the lashes to release demons, pray for sex and blame your father’s death on your mother’s cigarette smoking – welcome to the crushing world of ... -
Council of Europe confirms report denouncing ‘virulent’ LGBTQ attacks
STRASBOURG, France — The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly on Tuesday voted in favor of a scathing report that denounces “virulent attacks” against LGBTQ people in ... -
Invasion Day and the Inherent Discrimination of Australian Nationalism – Aiesha Saunders
Growing up as a Dunghutti boy in Kempsey – a rural town in New South Wales – I saw January 26 (the day of the invasion) ... -
African Prelates devising innovative ways to make the synod accessible to the faithful.
As the universal Church prepares for the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops to be held in 2023, Prelates in Africa are translating ... -
Vigilance violence – when people take the law
Having himself been shocked by seeing the extreme brutality of vigilante violence, sociologist Muhammad Asif decided to study why people take the law into their own ... -
Muslims on edge as ethnic groups vie for power in Rakhine State
YANGON, MYANMAR — While Myanmar’s ruling military is preoccupied elsewhere, leaders of an ethnic Buddhist minority in West Rakhine State are establishing themselves as the state’s ... -
Earth Lusca Hackers targets high value targets in public and private sectors
An elusive threat actor called Land Lusca has been observed hitting organizations around the world in what appears to be both an espionage campaign and an ... -
Marvin Repinski: Words can reach a person’s heart – Austin Daily Herald
“(Pray) also for me, that words may be given to me as I boldly open my mouth to proclaim the mystery of the gospel.” (Ephesians 6:19) ... -
Saudi and Emirati religious moderation inspires little beyond their borders
Saudi Arabia and the UAE praised social reforms that nationally reduced the role of religion in public life, strengthened women’s rights and, in the case of ... -
Guest column: After the pandemic, back into the void? | Opinion
How should American society evolve in 2022? Full steam ahead, American style, text-and-spend, gorge and dandle, everything revolves around me and my friends, as usual? This ... -
How is 2022 for Latin America and the Caribbean?
An economic recovery will be the major effort in the region; and society will continue to fight protest movements and, in all likelihood, new strains of ... -
What Kwanzaa Means to Black Americans | Way of life
On December 26, millions of people in the African community around the world [began] Kwanzaa week celebrations. There will be daily ceremonies with food, decorations and ... -
2022: Happy New Year, Bad New Year
From a human point of view, it’s hard to think of the New Year as a good year. Most countries pass legislation that increasingly secularizes institutions ... -
What makes a ‘real’ Singaporean and who came here first? Podcast hopes to broaden conversations about breed
SINGAPORE – On fire after a series of racing-related events in Singapore, a team of college graduates have come together to initiate a series of conversations ... -
Do Young Americans Have a “God-Shaped Hole”?
Editor’s Note: In this vision for the future, students discuss religion in light of Pascal’s idea that everyone has a hole in the shape of God. ... -
Midnight mass and other religious services exempt from the Omicron control curfew at 8 p.m.
Religious services will be exempt from the 8 p.m. curfew in effect from tomorrow, the government has confirmed. aoiseach Micheál Martin announced last night a series ... -
Latin American religious groups call for a post-extractivist economy
Source: London mining network More than 100 Catholic religious congregations and conferences from seven countries sign a manifesto in which they demand a post-extractivist development model ... -
Sight Magazine – Essay: 2021
December 15, 2021 ELLIS HEASLEY As always, 2021 has been both a year of setbacks and advances in freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) around the ... -
Kansas needs an equality curriculum for our public schools
The Kansas Reflector hosts opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of expanding the conversation about how public policy affects the daily lives of people ... -
Pope cites new book on mistreatment of nuns in warning to superiors
ROME (AP) – Pope Francis on Saturday drew attention to an issue the Vatican has long sought to downplay: the abuse of power by mothers superior ... -
The lab leak in Italy: Technopulism – POLITICO
Among aficionados of political movements, Italy has long been known as a kind of laboratory for experiments which then spread to the rest of the world. ... -
How Nigerian security agents “extrajudicially” killed 13,241 in 10 years
Security agents killed more than 13,000 extrajudicials in the country from 2011 to 2021, a span of 10 years, a new report from a pro-democracy group, ... -
Israel’s first liberal rabbi swims against the Orthodox
Published on: 12/05/2021 – 04:00Amended: 05/12/2021 – 03:58 Jerusalem (AFP) – The first liberal rabbi of the Israeli parliament, Gilad Kariv, aims to end the monopoly ... -
South Africa: SANEF outraged by baseless attack on election coverage of SABC News and its editor
The South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) finds baseless and shameful the attack by Transport Minister and ANC election official, Fikile Mbalula, on SABC’s coverage of ... -
The death of Hasan Azizul Haque, an irreparable loss for Bengali literature
Professor Hasan Azizul Haque was one of the fictional writers who enriched Bengali literature and he was one of the leading writers of Bengali literature. He ... -
New terrain, old problems: identity conflict and extremism in Asia, 2021
In 2017, residents of Khon Kaen, Thailand, filed a petition to prevent a Muslim community from registering a newly built mosque, citing fears of violence. A ... -
Bill passed to end emergency orders
National Security Minister Wayne Munroe in the House of Assembly. Photo: Donavan McIntosh / Tribune Staff By KHRISNA RUSSELL Chief Journalist of the Tribune [email protected] MEMBERS ... -
Kenya: LSK now wants Matiangi, Kibicho and Mutyambai to be sacked for extrajudicial killings
Nairobi – The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) is now calling for a complete overhaul of the senior leadership of the Home Office and national government ... -
Losing Our Religion | Opinion
“THElove is love. “Science is science.” Homes and offices in Washington, DC must display all politically correct lawn signs. Could it be that these signs convey ... -
Patriarch released from hospital after stenting, extends visit to US
Towards the end of his first apostolic visit to the United States in many years, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople was hospitalized on November 3 at ... -
What Christians in the Middle East Want | Luma simms
Disappearance :Faith, loss and twilight of Christianity in the land of the prophetsby janine di giovannipublic affairs, 272 pages, $ 30 Damascus – or as the ... -
Roots of the Cow Protection Movement in Sri Lanka
By PKBalachandran / Daily Mirror The Sri Lankan government will enact a comprehensive law banning the slaughter of cows. The government presents the ban as an ... -
We seem to be suffering from ‘Newfangled Societal Syndrome’, writes Sumit Paul
Designer Ace Sabyasachi Mukherjee found himself in the middle of yet another controversy after his new campaign was not well received by social media users. Sabyasachi ... -
Gender critics are the female auxiliaries of neo-fascists
By Brynn Tannehill | FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia – LGBTQ + leaders, the public, media and Democratic officials need to consider what the self-proclaimed “Gender Critical†movement ... -
Local control and parental involvement make good schools – InsideSources
On one level, Attorney General Merrick Garland can be excused for ignoring two of the most important influences in determining which schools are successful. However, teachers ... -
how we used satellite data to follow the toll of the pandemic
While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been well documented in high-income countries, much less is known about its impact on low-income and conflict-affected countries ... -
sameer wankhede: “My father is Hindu, my mother was Muslim. BCN officer Sameer Wankhede retaliates against Minister Maha and denounces “invasion of privacy”
Sameer Wankhede, the area chief of Mumbai’s Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) spearheading the cruise drug case, cited his secular credentials on Monday while slamming those who ... -
How Vincent van Gogh helped Jews break into the art world – and vice versa
NEW YORK – In the culminating gallery of “Van Gogh: The immersive experienceâ€, The painter’s masterpieces come to life thanks to swirling animations projected everywhere. Even ... -
If religious leaders want to reach Gen Z, meet them on the streets
(RNS) – Generation Z is the most ethnic, racial and religious diverse generation in the history of the United States. When Gen Z organizes to protest ... -
The populist right regrets its encouragement to Covid plotters | Paulo Gerbaudo
At the 1992 Republican American Convention, Paleoconservative Pandit and presidential candidate Pat Buchanan introduces the world to the idea that politics had become a “culture war” ... -
Uyghur repression in China detailed in ASPI report
Xu, Leibold and Impiombato said the authorities have sought to “permanently reshape Xinjiang society and achieve a perfect state of” overall stability “by the end of ... -
Rethinking America’s Strategy in the Greater Middle East
The ADVANCE of US interests from North Africa to Central Asia is collapsing. The exhausting occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan point to a strategic failure. Vast ... -
Nihang chief justifies gruesome murder of Singhu, warns farmer chiefs to stay away
Chandigarh: Hours after the gruesome execution of a 35-year-old man near the main stage of the Singhu border farmers’ protest on Friday, leaders of the Nihang ... -
Notable & Citable: What American Way?
October 14, 2021 6:30 p.m. ET Christopher DeMuth of the Hudson Institute discusses the role of the legislative branch and the constitutional powers of Congress, December ... -
Albert J. Raboteau, who transformed black religious studies, dies at 78
When Albert was still a baby, his mother, Mabel (Ishem) Raboteau, a teacher and domestic worker, moved with him and his two sisters to Ann Arbor, ... -
Sit-at-home is maintained despite orders to the contrary from Southeastern governments
Despite the resolution of governors, leaders and other stakeholders in the Southeast geopolitical zone, offices, businesses, streets and other concerns were closed on Monday morning, in ... -
Kolkata Durga Puja organizers receive legal advice for using slippers in pandal to show plight of farmers
A Kolkata-based lawyer sent legal advice to the organizers of a Durga Puja Committee in the Dum Dum neighborhood of the city for allegedly “harming religious ... -
Comment: Singapore is slowing its reopening to protect our seniors because that’s what we are
But something changed in 2013 during the National Day rally, when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong described the start of a new social pact, a “new ... -
Religious and other minorities are under serious threat in Afghanistan and urgent action is needed, says US panel – Baptist News Global
The United States and the Global Community must pressure the Taliban to stop persecuting Afghanistan’s religious and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ communities and even Muslims, said ... -
Reviews | A surprising number of Americans want to break up the country. Here is why they are wrong.
But a group of right-wing apocalyptic writers, who believe the country is too far to be saved, became obsessed with a Secession 2.0 that would separate ... -
Q&A: Facebook Whistleblower confirms professor’s long-standing claims
Having written a book, “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy”, as well as a wide assortment of published articles, and commenting to media ... -
Nanaimo psychedelic rock duo pay tribute to Egyptian philosopher on new EP – Nanaimo News Bulletin
A 5th-century Egyptian scholar murdered for involvement in a political conflict is the subject of the psychedelic rock duo Nanaimo Anunnaki’s latest album. In AD 415, ... -
The church is on fire, what to do? , Evangelical focus
The fire at Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral (April 15, 2019) is a symbol of the church that is burning in secularized Europe and, more generally, in ... -
RCC in France: up to 10,000 people may have been sexually abused
Image via YouTube Back in March of this year, Jean-Marc Sauvé, above, president of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE), revealed that, ... -
The issues of social research
The University Scholarships Commission has encouraged its establishment in each university, at least once a year. It was made compulsory for upward career mobility. The proclamation ... -
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen: a masterful page turner on how we deal with pain
The feeling of an end hangs over the contemporary novel. “You could smell it,†says the opening paragraph of Jonathan Franzen’s third novel, The Corrections, “something ... -
Critical infrastructure legislation should also define the parameters of cognitive security
In the face of increased threats in cyberspace, the Australian government wants to speed up the adoption of crucial amendments to the Critical Infrastructure Security Act, ... -
Churches don’t just follow the opinions and actions of their followers on political issues, they can shape them as well.
Despite the separation of church and state in the American Constitution, American religious institutions and movements are often active in politics. But do they follow the ... -
Parents sue California public school system for ‘unconstitutional’ chant to Aztec deities
Three California The parents filed a complaint against the state’s education ministry for singing the Aztec gods in the new ethnic research program. According to a ... -
First contact | Commonwealth Magazine
The first contact with an advanced extraterrestrial civilization can be seen as a sort of cosmic rite of passage, the definitive sign that, scientifically at least, ... -
Kristoffer Brasileño deconstructs the identity and art of Ilonggo
In an archipelagic country, the identity of a people is always regional because geographical borders define varied traditions and languages. But the artist Kristoffer Brasileño tries ... -
How BLM Movements Impacted Florida Universities
Opinion By Judy Nelson Student groups have always been the breeding grounds for social activists who participate in local and global change. Since 2013, Black lives ... -
It’s time for Bennett to go to a synagogue in America – analysis
For Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, this year’s UN General Assembly meeting, which he is due to address on Monday, is the equivalent of his own debut ... -
Famous feminist activist Kamla Bhasin dies
Posted: Sept. 25, 2021, 4:47 p.m. Kamla Bhasin, a leading feminist activist from South Asia, died in the early hours of Saturday after battling cancer at ... -
Foundation review: Apple TV Plus Sci-Fi adaptation is almost excellent
When this space sci-fi saga sprawling – Jared Harris and Lee Pace, among others – travel beyond expectations, it’s exciting. The first episodes of the new ... -
The impact of labeling COVID-19 as a scam
Despite the devastation caused by COVID-19, some Nigerians continued to doubt its existence, describing it as a “scam”. People doubt the ability of public health facilities, ... -
Jefferson County COVID Mask Christian Schools Trial Update
This morning, September 22, a hearing is scheduled to resume at the Jefferson County Courthouse regarding a lawsuit filed by Jefferson County Public Health against three ... -
Geddy Lee announces new memoir, release slated for 2022
Geddy Lee has announced the imminent publication of a memoir currently slated for fall 2022. Lee shared the news via Instagram where his username is @geddyimages, ... -
Jewish Israelis flock to Temple Mount in greater numbers
Hundreds of Israeli Jews are expected to climb the Temple Mount compound today and throughout the week through September 27, to celebrate the feast of Sukkot. ... -
The history of the etrog in America | September | 2021 | The Jewish experience
The history of the etrog in America Editor’s Note: Sukkot is the annual Jewish harvest festival that commemorates the Israelites’ 40 years in the wilderness in ... -
MLK’s Dream and the Continuing History of Racism in America
Black Slavery provides a poignant narrative for understanding America’s history, and there are two versions of this story competing for emphasis in the media and in ... -
Perspective Paris # 15: The Future History of Jihad – Wassim Nasr
The past month – the fall of Kabul, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 atrocities and the historic trial of the Paris attacks – has been ... -
Religion is not a political tool – editorial
In the latest example of how the Chief Rabbinate lost touch with reality, on Wednesday – the eve of Yom Kippur – the Chief Rabbi of ... -
Should open marriages be the norm? 4 people talk about it
The institution of marriage and even dating in modern times is an exclusive relationship. Neither party is supposed to gain emotional or sexual benefits from someone ... -
Develop foresight in the fight against terrorists and bandits – By:. .
Everything indicates that the offensive against the bandits in Zamfara State is progressing. Hundreds of them were killed by aerial bombardments and some of those who ... -
Leadership is distorted by lust for power, betraying charisma, says Pope
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis congratulated the Catholic lay movements and associations for living the Gospel in their daily lives and for promoting education, social ... -
Gail Omvedt: The Voice of the Dalits
THE death of sociologist Gail Omvedt on August 25 at her home in Kasegaon in the Sangli district of Maharashtra marks the end of an era ... -
The vitality of human rights in times of turbulence
Image by LoggaWiggler of Pixabay In a recent book, I look at a number of human rights campaigns around the world and how successful they are ... -
How do the anti-smallpox vaccines compare to those today?
Three years ago, I wrote a story for Discover who described the long history of anti-vaccination sentiment in the United States. At the time, the country ... -
Joséphine Baker (finally) inducted into the Pantheon
Joséphine Baker will enter the Pantheon on November 30, a burial place dedicated to the great men and women of French history. She will only be ... -
People “eager to go home” in Poland amid anti-LGBT regime
Poles living in Merseyside have revealed that they are eager to return to their home country. Maciej, who lives in Southport, and Wiktoria, who lives in ... -
Liberty Times Editorial: Unfolding Culture Against the CCP Regime
Yu Ying-shih (余英時), one of the world’s leading Chinese scholars and member of Academia Sinica, died in his sleep at his home in New Jersey on ... -
Die-hard Orthodox activists take control of the egalitarian section of the Western Wall
Several hundred die-hard Zionist religious activists descended on the egalitarian section of the Western Wall (known as the Israel section) on Saturday night and held prayer ... -
Opinion: LGBTQ rights and religion: we don’t need an activist campaign
As thorny as the debate to support religious freedom while ensuring protections against discrimination for LGBTQ Americans may be, the best results will not be won ... -
10 years after his death, bin Laden still haunts Pakistan
Published on: 04/27/2021 – 04:34 Abbottabad (Pakistan) (AFP) Children play cricket in a patch of scorched grass and scattered rubble in Abbottabad – all that remains ... -
The 7 Incredible Evidence-Based Health Benefits of Dates
Dates, the sweet little gems that grow on date palms in many desert and tropical regions, are packed with important nutrients and are a great natural ... -
Local hip-hop musician promotes equity through music – TommieMedia
(Molly Heimel / TommieMedia) Matt Allen, a hip-hop artist from Eagan, Minnesota known as Nur-D, combines pop culture and hip-hop production to create a powerful commentary ... -
Lockdown will reduce revenue by 80% per day: FKCCI
The fortnightly lockdown will result in an 80% drop in revenues and the economy which has seen slight signs of recovery in the past three months ... -
It’s time to reject Orthodox conversions to Judaism
After another screed by an Orthodox rabbi slandering his fellow Jews, even questioning the Jewishness of their rabbis (Jerusalem Post, “The hard conversation,†pp. 10, 22 ... -
The day my son’s ashes arrived in the mail – the forward
The ashes arrived at my home in Maryland from Southern California, shipped by special delivery from the aptly named Ashes to Ashes funeral home. They arrived ...
