List of Religion articles
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cool pope The Pope Urges Trump to Protect Peace and the Planet
Pope Francis may have promised not to judge President Trump, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t take the chance to educate him.
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GettyImages-603118702crop Russia’s Hearts-and-Minds Campaign in Syria Is Aimed at Home
The country's latest humanitarian efforts in the Middle East are designed to win over its own increasingly testy Muslims.
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NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 11: President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a news cenference at Trump Tower on January 11, 2017 in New York City. This is TrumpÕs first official news conference since the November elections. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Trump’s Farcical New Beginning With Muslims
The president’s trip to Saudi Arabia isn’t the start of a new relationship with the Arab world; it’s militarism, disdain for human rights, and caricature of religion.
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trumpmbs Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Win Over the White House
The Saudis are thrilled that Barack Obama is out of office. But will they get what they need from the Trump administration?
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TOPSHOT - Pro-Erdogan supporters react during a protest at the Sarchane park in Istanbul on July 19, 2016. The Turkish army said on July 19 that the vast majority of its members had no links with the July 15 attempted coup and warned that the putschists would face severe punishment. The armed forces blamed the "Fethullah Terrorist Organisation" (FETO) for the failed putsch, referring to Fethullah Gulen, a one-time ally turned foe of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey's prime minister said on July 19 his government had sent four files to the United States, as Ankara seeks the extradition of US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen. / AFP / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images) The United States Should Extradite Fetullah Gülen
It is clear to the government of Turkey that the Pennsylvania cleric is a coup plotter. Donald Trump should honor our request to bring him to justice.
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TOPSHOT - A member of the Iraqi forces walks past a mural bearing the logo of the Islamic State (IS) group in a tunnel that was reportedly used as a training centre by the jihadists, on March 1, 2017, in the village of Albu Sayf, on the southern outskirts of Mosul. Iraqi forces launched a major push on February 19 to recapture the west of Mosul from the Islamic State jihadist group, retaking the airport and then advancing north. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images) Terrorists Are Not Snowflakes
The West has started treating would-be terrorists as children in need of protection from radical ideas. That's as dangerous as it is insulting.
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JAKARTA, INDONESIA - MARCH 31: Thousands of Indonesian Muslims protest against the Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama known widely as "Ahok" on March 31, 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The leader of one of the groups behind this protest and recent others was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of treason, as religious and political sentiments are increasingly contentious ahead of the Jakarta Governor election in April.(Photo by Ed Wray/Getty Images) The Improbable Rise and Blasphemous Fall of a Christian Politician in Indonesia
The country has no choice but to live with religious identity politics — but it doesn't have to like the consequences.
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Meral Aksener, candidate for the leadership of the Turkish opposition party Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), delivers a speech during a "NO" campaign meeting on April 8, 2017, in Ankara, a week ahead of a constitutional referendum. On April 16, 2017, the Turkish public will vote on whether to change the current parliamentary system into an executive presidency. / AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN (Photo credit should read ADEM ALTAN/AFP/Getty Images) Can the ‘She-Wolf’ Who Rejected the Harem Take On Sultan Erdogan?
The feisty, nationalist grandmother Meral Aksener is a real threat to unseat Turkey’s demagogic president. If he doesn’t toss her in jail first.
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An Indonesian Sharia police whips a man during a public caning ceremony outside a mosque in Banda Aceh, capital of Aceh province on September 18, 2015. Three women and 14 men arrested for sexual offenses and gambling were caned in front of the mosque in full view of the public following the Friday prayer. Aceh is the only province of Indonesia that is enforcing the Islamic Sharia law and violators are punished by public caning. AFP PHOTO / CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN (Photo credit should read CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty Images) Amid Rising Fundamentalism, Indonesia May Sentence Gay Men to 100 Lashes
Indonesia’s once-vaunted religious pluralism is ceding ground to sharia law.
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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - FEBRUARY 24: Deputy assistant to President Trump Sebastian Gorka participates in a discussion during the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center February 24, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland. Hosted by the American Conservative Union, CPAC is an annual gathering of right wing politicians, commentators and their supporters. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Sebastian Gorka May Be a Far-Right Nativist, but for Sure He’s a Terrible Scholar
A closer look at the doctoral dissertation of President Trump’s expert on “radical Islamist terrorism.”
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Participants hold laptops at the Chaos Computer Club's annual congress in Hamburg, Germany, in December 2012. (Patrick Lux/Getty Images) The Making of Islamophobia Inc.
A well-funded network is trying to strip the right to speak away from American Muslims and fanning the politics of fear.
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BERLIN - SEPTEMBER 05: Young women training to become florists, including a Muslim woman wearing a headscarf, bundle flower bouquets shortly before the arrival of German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the BildungsWerk Kreuzberg, a vocational training school in the immigrant-heavy district of Kreuzberg, on September 5, 2008 in Berlin, Germany. Merkel is visiting schools across Germany in order to get a better unserstanding of the state of Germany's education system. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) An EU Court Okays Headscarf Bans in the Workplace
Observers say ruling could exacerbate tensions with Muslim immigrants
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI - DECEMBER 9: President-elect Donald Trump looks on during a rally at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. President-elect Donald Trump is continuing his victory tour across the country. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Hawaii Launches First Attack Against New Trump Travel Ban
Suit is the first in a wave of challenges to rely on Trump’s past statements to overturn ban.
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dl-crop Dalai Lama Interview Fuels New Fire in China-Tibet Spat
Tibet’s spiritual figurehead ridicules Chinese officials on HBO show.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 12: U.S. President Barack Obama (C) delivers the State of the Union speech before members of Congress in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol January 12, 2016 in Washington, DC. In his last State of the Union, President Obama reflected on the past seven years in office and spoke on topics including climate change, gun control, immigration and income inequality. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) 10 Things to Watch for in Trump’s Address to Congress
We'll offer our take on how we think he did later in the week.
