(RNS) — Shortly after Cole Tomas Allen was identified as the armed man who sought to break into the White House Correspondents’ dinner, President Trump declared on Fox News, “He had a lot of hatred in his heart for quite a while. And he just, I don’t know. He just, it was a religious thing….
We meet Kneecap backstage at Kingston’s Circuit ahead of an intimate album launch show on St George’s Day (no reader, they do not celebrate). It’s been about a year and half since we last spoke. “A pretty uneventful few months I must say,” jokes Mo Chara, given the lifetime of headlines and controversy the Belfast rap…
The challenges the church faces in dealing with social media influencers are not new. In fact, the Gospels suggest they extend back before the roots of Christianity. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus condemns religious figures who “on the outside look righteous to others, but inside … are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness” (Matthew 23:27-28). The…
(The Conversation) — As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of its independence, old questions have returned about who belongs and whose religious practices are truly protected in the country. At the start of the year, an arson attack significantly damaged the oldest synagogue in Mississippi. Two days later, local officials in Oklahoma rejected…
Shorouk Express The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Emilio Ghanem, a 40-year-old from Nashville, disappeared two years ago after he was last seen at a…
Shorouk Express AGHDAM, Azerbaijan, May 31. A delegation of religious leaders from Türkiye and Georgia has visited the liberated Aghdam city as a part of their visit to Azerbaijan, Trend’s regional correspondent reports. During the visit to the city, the guests will learn about the destruction carried out over the past 30 years of Armenian…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 29. On March 29, Baku is hosting the international conference themed “Colonialism: erasing religious and national identity”, organized by the Baku Initiative Group, Trend reports. The event brings together leaders and representatives of independence movements, as well as families of political prisoners from territories under French and Dutch colonial rule,…
