The Huffington Post  |  By Jaweed Kaleem Posted: 05/23/2013 1:36 pm EDT  |  Updated: 05/23/2013 2:28 pm EDT Muslim leaders from across the globe paid tribute Holocaust victims this week during a visit to Auschwitz, the former Nazi concentration camp, where they prayed at the Wall of Death for those who were killed by genocide […]

  On May 12 Pastor Timothy Murphy began a fast of solidarity with the Guantanamo inmates who are on a hunger strike.   By Jerry Campbell CLAREMONT, Calif. (RNS) Last Sunday (May 12), Timothy Murphy began a fast of solidarity with the Guantanamo inmates who are on a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. As […]

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Herald Sun April 12, 2013 3:04PM POLICE have praised commuters who came to the defence of a man being racially abused on a Melbourne train. Furious passengers who united to take a stand against a woman who exploded in a hateful rant on Wednesday night. In a show of force against […]

Greg Clarke 8 MAY 2013 “The concept of the church’s care of ‘the poor’ was basic to the founding of the earliest hospitals. The hospital was, in origin and conception, a distinctively Christian institution, rooted in Christian concepts of charity and philanthropy. There were no pre-Christian institutions in the ancient world that served the purpose […]

Why is there disability? – Mike Duggan It has been asserted that religion offers no relevant answers to the query, “Why is there disability?” Answers are numerous and include the ideas that disability is: (a) a punishment; (b) a test of faith; (c) the sins of the fathers visited upon the children; (d) an act […]

Re. Gabriel Slguero, President, National Latino Evangelical Coalition Posted: 08/04/2013 12:22 pm By now many people have read Time magazine’s, “Latino Reformation,” a cover story on the growth of Latino Evangelicals in America. Elizabeth Dias chronicles the growth of Hispanic Evangelicals including both store-front congregations to Latino mega-churches. As a Hispanic Evangelical leader my question of course […]

A British soldier behind a bullet-resistant riot shield in Northern Ireland in 1973, during the Troubles. Philip Jones Griffiths/Magnum Photos PEACE, said W. B. Yeats, comes dropping slow. After 15 years, the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland still occasionally quivers, sometimes abruptly, and yet it holds. It is one of the great stories […]

New Women For A New Egypt (10:40) Event: An Open Space Conversation Participants: 31 (14 Male, 17 Female ) Location: Ismailia, Egypt http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l7iZ955QH8

March 22nd, 2013 – by John Dear By John Dear, SJ Like many, I’m hopeful about the new Jesuit pope from Latin America who takes the name Francis, but I’m concerned about reports of his silence during Argentina’s “Dirty War.” I grieve, too, as we mark the 10th anniversary of the evil U.S. war on Iraq, […]

  The former leader of East Timor on his remarkable journey from activist to politician to Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Last Modified: 01 Dec 2012 09:46 20121128112028341200.html In 1975, Jose Ramos-Horta, the then foreign minister of the newly-liberated nation of East Timor, was sent by his country’s prime minister to New York. By the time his plane […]

By Olga Khazan A look at the regions where women are healthiest, happiest, make most, and are most likely to hold positions of power The first National Women’s Day was celebrated on March 8, 1909, a day designated by the Socialist Party of America to honor of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York. From there, the […]

Statement of the Conference of Muslim-Christian Religious Leaders of Asia, 2013 by Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib on Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 13:13 · Striving Together in Love Towards Common Action “Love God, Love Neighbour, Love all Creation” Introduction God the Almighty be praised for bringing us, 134 Muslim and Christian leaders of Asia, together […]