US: TRUMP’S RELIGIOUS LIBERTY ORDER SLAMMED AS ‘PRETTY MUCH NOTHING’
DAVID GIBSON and ADELLE M BANKS, of Religion News Service, report on reaction to the signing of US President Donald Trump’s executive order on religious liberty…
President Trump’s executive order calls for report into honour killings in US
RNS As part of its goal to protect “the nation from foreign terrorist entry”, President Trump’s new executive order calls for a report on the number of honor killings carried out in the US by “foreign nationals.” Civil liberties advocates say the focus on honor killings, which a 2014 Justice Department reports shows make up […]
Religious groups, leaders respond to new US immigration policies
RNS Religious organisations and leaders in the US were swift to react to new Trump administration policies that will widely expand deportations of undocumented immigrants. “These policies are destructive to families,” said Bishop Dwayne Royster, political director of the PICO National Network, an interfaith organisation that provides services to immigrants. “The president, with malicious intent, […]