Churches and mosques have been centers of “searing” human rights abuses in South Sudan, where a civil war has been raging since 2013, according to a United Nations report.
President Salva Kiir’s government forces have been fighting with rebels led by his former deputy Riek Machar. The two sides have committed terrible atrocities, according to the report published in March.
Salim Jaffer moved to the United States when he was 14 years old. His family, along with the rest of the Indian community, had been expelled from Uganda in 1972 under the violent dictator Idi Amin and came to America.
But he said he’s never felt in danger until this year.
“Donald Trump thinks we should stop immigration of Muslims coming into this country,” said Jaffer, a gastroenterologist living in Lansing, Michigan. “Ted Cruz, he wants to see if ‘sand glows’ in Syria.”
Evangelicals vote for Donald Trump. No, Ted Cruz. Wait. Aren’t some Christians voting for Hillary Clinton, who is Methodist, and Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish?
Why do exit polls draw such a confusing picture of religion’s role in the 2016 presidential race?
Exit polls are surveys designed and funded by the news media to help them report and explain the vote before the full results come in.
(The Christian Science Monitor) After the self-proclaimed Islamic State swept in from Syria in 2014 and grabbed huge swaths of Iraq, counterterrorism experts said the group’s control of significant territory would make it considerably more difficult to defeat.
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(RNS) Vice President Joe Biden and former House speaker John Boehner, devout Catholics and longtime political foes, will share a prestigious honor from the University of Notre Dame in a rebuke of the polarization of American politics.
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(RNS) Israel today grapples with profound existential questions of its national identity, including how Jewish the Jewish state can be.
More than three-quarters (76 percent) of Israeli Jews believe their country can be both Jewish and democratic, a view rejected by majorities of Israeli Muslims and Christians, according to a comprehensive new survey released by the Washington-based Pew Research Center March 8.
(The Christian Science Monitor) Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic? For generations of Jewish Israelis, the answer was presumed to be yes, but it’s no longer so simple.
The issue has already brought down one national government and has deep implications for Israel’s ability to accommodate Palestinians’ political aspirations.
Nanotechnology has been revolutionizing science, medicine, and industry for decades, but it took until now for someone to turn it into a religious fashion statement.
Ami Bentov, an Israeli entrepreneur, came up with the idea of mass-producing silicon chips containing the entire Bible and selling them as pieces of religious jewelry.
Jonathan Sacks, a leader in efforts to promote interfaith understanding, has won the 2016 Templeton Prize, which recognizes “exceptional contributions to affirming life’s spiritual dimension.”
Sacks’s “future-mindedness” was a key reason he was chosen for the honor, said Jennifer Simpson, who heads the John Templeton Foundation Board of Trustees.