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Shocked by Aung San Suu Kyi’s Insensitivity to Ethnic Cleansing? Don’t Be.

By Michael Jerryson

…Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi delivered a speech in English to the international community. In the speech, she explained that her nascent democratic government was hard at work to rectify systemic nationwide problems due to decades of neglect. She also addressed the current crisis in which over 420,000 Rohingya have fled across her country’s borders to Bangladesh over the last several weeks. I am aware of the fact that the world’s attentio…

Israel’s Chief Rabbis Say No to Christian Zionist Event

By Sarah Posner

…ndemning an upcoming event sponsored by the Christian Zionist organization International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, finding that it “hinders Israel’s true redemption.” The event, a prayer vigil marking the end of ICEJ’s annual five-day commemoration of the Feast of the Tabernacles, or Sukkot, is scheduled to take place October 15 at the southern wall of the Temple Mount. Other portions of the ICEJ’s program will take place at the new Jerusalem P…

Chatting with Myanmar’s Buddhist “Terrorist”

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…nd its human rights accusations were part of a Muslim plot. “It is not the United Nations,” Wirathu told me, “but the United Muslim Nations.” Wirathu claimed that President Obama was also duped by these influences, and this is the reason why he spoke about the rights of Rohingya people in his recent visit to the country. The conspiracy was even broader, Wirathu said, since the world’s news media were also under control of Islamic extremists. In fa…

Taking Aim at Religion Itself, Apostles Prime Networks For Real-World Violence

By Frederick Clarkson

…to sponsor Christian schools, at least one apostolic center, Impact Church International in Concord, North Carolina, not only hosts a KU campus, but also the K4-12 Daniel Christian Academy, which is explicitly devoted to teaching about the seven mountains of dominion. From the website of the Daniel Christian Academy. Apostle and Pastor Donna Wise of Impact Church International claims in a 2022 post that too often the church, broadly speaking, is “…

Gingrich, Israel, and the Assassinate Obama Comments

By Shalom Goldman

…sraeli Right which has long sought for Jerusalem to be, in the eyes of the international community, exclusively Israel’s. The Forward‘s Gal Beckerman nails the bigger picture: [the] concern is that because of his influence on Gingrich, Adelson has turned the Republican contest into a competition of extreme rhetoric, in which there is no room for compromise or diplomacy, and the only answer to any international problem is unmitigated toughness. No…

Ministries of Presence: A Report from Nepal

By Cathleen Falsani

…me aboard the flight from Singapore were a few other journalists from the United States and Europe, a team from the China Lingshan International Rescue in their distinctive fire engine red uniforms, and several dozen surgeons from South Africa who had come to Nepal with Gift of the Giver organization, an NGO founded in 1992 by a Sufi sheik from Istanbul. Among us were Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains—people of good will…

Promise Keepers Launches Effort to Support Messianic Jews in Israel

By Sarah Posner

…anic Jews; Rick Ridings of Succat Hallel, a house of prayer modeled on the International House of Prayer in Kansas City; and Tom Hess, who operates the Jerusalem House of Prayer for All Nations on the Mount of Olives. “We have a list that keeps growing,” said Jesse. He said that Dan Juster, the director of Tikkun Ministries International who also oversees the activities of the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute in Israel, was trying to make the meet…

Queering Easter: The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Redefine Sainthood

By Susan Henking

…igion, nuns, charity, sexuality and fun might be; in fact, they are now an international phenomenon. They have, for some, redefined sainthood—and in the process redefined Easter. Months after Pope Benedict raised the Blessed Damien to sainthood, another figure linked to AIDS and HIV was “canonized” in San Francisco. As the Bay Area Reporter put it: “Where else but San Francisco could Irene Smith, a true pioneer in care for the ill and dying, be sa…

LDS Church-Owned Radio Station Stands By Rush Limbaugh

By Joanna Brooks

…of polycystic ovaries and endometriosis. LDS Church-subsidiary Bonneville International owns 29 radio stations. It is one of seven religiously-owned or affiliated national radio networks, including the American Family Association network (165 stations), Bible Broadcasting Network (37 stations), Educational Media Association (290 stations), Family Stations (67 stations), Moody Bible Institute (36 stations), and the for-profit Christian broadcaster…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…fine what politics means? Realpolitik, the Kissingerian-Nixonian view of international relations, has dominated US foreign policy for decades. It ensures that the US makes public proclamations about democracy and freedom, while in reality, democracy is subsumed and sacrificed every day to self-interest, be that oil or domestic support for Israel. Realpolitik ideologues fear the unleashing of Arab democracy, because in the battle for resources,…