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Palestinian Orthodox Christians, Desperate for Help, Have Caught the Attention of Russia

By Katherine Kelaidis

…to block the sale of other property to Ateret Cohanim. And Hamas has regularly targeted Palestinian Christians for discrimination, including attempting to curb the public celebration of Christian holidays. As Christians, they’ve largely been left without the assistance of the region’s Muslim powers, interested mainly in the protection of their co-religionists. Likewise, they’re forgotten by American evangelical Christians whose pro-Israel, pro-Br…

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…embers of the UN Security Council to an August 24 meeting to discuss the “barbaric treatment” of LGBT people by the so-called Islamic State. Speaking of ISIS, writer Rukmini Callimachi and photographer Mauricio Lima produced an unforgettable, chilling New York Times story about the Islamic State’s enshrinement of a theology of rape and sexual slavery. Alturi, an organization launched to “educate and engage individual supporters who want to help im…

However Dull or Ham-Fisted, TV is not Oppressing Mormons — In Fact, We Have a Duty to Scrutinize Religious Institutions That Endanger Vulnerable People

By Megan Goodwin

…easingly seeing positive, nuanced on-screen portrayals of Muslims (from We Are Lady Parts to Midnight Mass), the vast majority of US media treatments of Muslims and Islam have reinforced, bolstered, and even celebrated the legal and cultural oppression of Muslims on the basis of both religion and race. Television is neither the cause of nor solution to all life’s problems, but it can and does drive popular understandings of and responses to Americ…

An Agnostic Biography of the Prophet Muhammad

By Lesley Hazleton

…into exile from his home in Mecca. The psychology of exile thus played a large role in the armed conflict over the subsequent eight years, until Mecca finally accepted his leadership in a negotiated surrender, with strong emphasis on avoiding bloodshed. Is there anything you had to leave out? I know there’s a tendency to elide certain issues of Muhammad’s life, not least among them the rapid deterioration of his relations with the Jews of Medina,…

Islam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?

By Brie Loskota

…pelling stories and motivating factors that are important to understand, so that we can begin to craft policy solutions to problems too often ignored or treated reductively by the policy community as simply religious, tribal or cultural.” Read as part of a larger in-house movement to reassert the soul of Islam and push back against the forces of extremism, this bumper sticker had new meaning for me. And I realized that I had cynically underestimat…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…orld, that gays have human rights,” he said during an event at a hotel in Harare, the country’s capital, that commemorated International Women’s Day as the Herald, a Zimbabwean newspaper, reported. “Gays have no human rights. They have human rights – human rights for doing an inhuman thing.” In Kenya, Member of Parliament Alois Lentoimaga urged the passage of a Ugandan-style law to “outlaw gayism and lesbianism.” In response, reports James Machari…

After Her Remarks Pope JPII Was Never the Same — Controversial, Beloved Sr Theresa Kane’s Effect on the Catholic Church Endures

By Mary E. Hunt

…, without whom enormous changes could not have happened. Theresa was born Margaret Kane in 1936 into a large family with Irish immigrant parents. She entered the Sisters of Mercy in 1955, studied at Manhattanville College, and went on to a career in Mercy ministries focusing on health care. She was the CEO of a hospital well before she was 30. In the 1970s, she became president of the community as well as President of the Leadership Conference of…

Reports of the Death of ISIS Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…s in Baghdad. December 10 was proclaimed a public holiday, and a military parade marched down the main streets. But that was about it. The event was scarcely reported elsewhere. In the New York Times the report about the event was a small item obscured by more salacious reports related to Trump-dominated domestic politics. ISIS was over. But no one seemed to notice. Perhaps that’s because few people are persuaded that ISIS is really over. They kno…

Would Gandhi Disband Occupy?

By Ira Chernus

…seem like tomorrow’s folly. Gandhi’s program was especially vague in the earliest years of his work, in South Africa. To demand a detailed list of specifics from today’s Occupiers would be like making the same demand of Gandhi in the 1890s. Yet Gandhi must have known intuitively, even then, an essential truth he would later articulate clearly: The greatness of any society is not measured by its gross product, nor by the stellar achievements of it…

Worried About Inequality After the Pandemic? Start By Listening to the Women Ringing the Alarm for Decades

By Liz Theoharis

…on with this meeting”. Dr. King replied, “We don’t know anything about welfare. We are here to learn.” More than a month into the coronavirus pandemic, our nation is revealing how little it knows about welfare or how to care for all of its people. The $2 trillion stimulus package passed last week may include stop-gap measures for the poor, but it does very little to respond to the vast need being created by COVID-19 nor the pre-existing crisis fac…