Trump cabinet: Top level nominees represent an unusual slice of American religious life
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports that Trump’s cabinet selection includes everyone from pastors to Catholic converts to one nominee who credits their spiritual rebirth to a book by a Swiss psychiatrist…
In Hiroshima, the Vatican joined religious leaders to change the narrative on AI
RNS Meeting where one of two atomic bombs that ended World War II landed in Hiroshima, Japan, causing mass death and devastation, representatives from 11 diverse religious traditions gathered on 9th to 10th July for a Vatican-sponsored event to address a latter-day technology also destined, many believe, to upend humanity: artificial intelligence. Rather than focus […]
Details revealed about King Charles III’s coronation service; Stone of Scone arrives in London
London, UK AP It will be a coronation of many faiths and many languages. King Charles III, keen to show that he can be a unifying figure for everyone in the United Kingdom, will be crowned in a ceremony that will for the first time include the active participation of faiths other than the Church […]
Asian Britons celebrate “proud moment” as Sunak takes on top job
London, UK Reuters Rishi Sunak is set to become Britain’s first prime minister of colour on Tuesday, an achievement that many, particularly in the Asian community, held up as a cultural milestone standing out above the economic chaos and political tumult. News that a Hindu son of Indian immigrants had won the race to lead […]
Lifestory: “My dream came true” – Indian woman to revisit Pakistan home after 75 years
As India and Pakistan prepare to mark 75 years since the Partition of 1947, MUBASHER BUKHARI, of Reuters, reports on how 90-year old Indian citizen Reena Varma has been able to return to her childhood home in Pakistan…
How an “inflammatory” Facebook post led to a killing and sectarian tension in India
Udaipur, India Reuters Two weeks before a Hindu tailor in India was hacked to death by two Muslim men who filmed the act, he was briefly detained by police after a rival tailor accused him of an “inflammatory” Facebook post on Prophet Mohammad. Kanhaiyalal Teli’s son told Reuters his father had reposted a Facebook post […]
India’s hijab dispute reaches its most populous state
Lucknow, India Reuters A dispute over restrictions on the wearing of the hijab by female students in a southern Indian state has now reached India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, with a group of youngsters asking a college to ban the head covering. Authorities closed colleges in Karnataka in India’s south last week after […]
Essay: What Trump should have told India’s Modi this week
ELLIS HEASLEY, public affairs officer at religious freedom advocacy CSW, looks at why US President Donald Trump should have raised issues of religious freedom on his visit to India this week…
Major faiths reject use of religious identity for political gain ahead of Indian election
World Watch Monitor Leaders of six major faiths have issued a joint call condemning the use of religion for political ends, ahead of India’s 2019 general election. Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Muslim and Sikh leaders met in the western state of Goa on 5th April to discuss rising communal tensions in several areas of the […]
Pastor in Punjab state, India, shot dead
Morning Star News A pastor in northern India’s Punjab state was shot dead in front of his church premises two months after Hindu extremists took offence at a Gospel event celebrating his church’s 25th anniversary, sources said. Pastor Sultan Masih of the Temple of God was found shot dead at Peer Banda Mohalla in the Salem Tabri […]