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Report Draws Attention to Hate Crimes Against Hindus 06-06-2013From around the webBY CORRIE MITCHELL
(RNS) With the release of their ninth annual report, members of the Hindu American Foundation are pushing policymakers to take action against international human rights violations directed at Hindus...
Anti-Alcohol Bill Leaves Many Turks Dispirited 06-05-2013From around the webBY JACOB RESNECK | ISTANBUL
(RNS) Turkey is about to enact the strictest alcohol laws in the republic’s 89-year history in a move that some Turks complain is part of a creeping Islamist agenda.
The bill suppo...
‘Nuns on the Bus’ Kick Off Immigration Tour 05-31-2013From around the webBY DAVID GIBSON | JERSEY CITY
(RNS) With the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop, the “Nuns on the Bus” on Wednesday (May 29) kicked off a national tour for immigration reform aimed at giving a faith-based pus...
Lacking Recognition, Italy’s Muslims Face an Uncertain Future 05-29-2013From around the webBY MUSTAFA HAMEED | ROME
(RNS) Steps from the immense colonnade of St. Peter’s Square, Sarwar Jahan stood next to his souvenir stand. A dark, clean-shaven man wearing a navy blue jacket and a black knit cap, Jah...
Pastor's Tornado Tweets Stir Up a Theological Debate 05-27-2013From around the web(RNS) Oklahoma’s devastating tornado stirred up a theological debate that was set off from a series of deleted tweets referencing the Book of Job.
Popular evangelical author and speaker John Piper regularly twee...
ETHICS: Do Americans Really Care How Their Clothes Are Made? 05-22-2013From around the webBY CALUM MCLEOD | DHAKA, Bangladesh
(RNS) Just two more months, the daughter promised her mother by telephone, then she’d be home for good.
Making shirts in this packed metropolis of 12 million people, Sheuli...
Can Grief Be a Mental Illness? With New Diagnostic Changes, Maybe 05-21-2013From around the webBY TIM TOWNSEND
(RNS) Each year 90,000 parents in the U.S. confront the profound suffering that follows the death of a child or adolescent.
On Saturday (May 18), in a move that could add to the tension between reli...
