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Before we can rein in hate crime, we have to admit the size of the problem
By Simran Jeet Singh — November 18, 2019
(RNS) — A system of hate crime reporting that doesn't include Heather Heyer's death in Charlottesville or a murder of a Sikh in Tulsa won't lead to real solutions.
FBI report: Jews the target of overwhelming number of religious-based hate crimes
By Yonat Shimron — November 13, 2019
(RNS) — Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,550 offenses, and the majority of those — 57.8% — were anti-Jewish.
FBI report: Jews the target of overwhelming number of religious-based hate crimes
By Yonat Shimron — November 12, 2019
(RNS) — Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,550 offenses, and the majority of those — 57.8% — were anti-Jewish.
A decade after FBI killing of Detroit imam, Muslims still look for answers
By Aysha Khan — October 29, 2019
(RNS) — In 2009, federal agents shot Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah during a warehouse raid. Muslims in Michigan and around the country say they still have more questions than answers about the prominent leader’s killing.
New Haven mosque struggles to resume Ramadan rituals after arson attack
By Rhonda Roumani — May 22, 2019
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (RNS) — A week after the blaze, with the cameras and politicians gone, the members of a tightly knit Turkish community began to feel the weight of their loss and the reconstruction effort ahead.
Faith and civil rights groups ask for FBI meeting on white nationalism
By Jack Jenkins — March 28, 2019
(RNS) — 'Our communities must go to their houses of worship every week knowing that they are a target, and the FBI won't even give us the time to hear our concerns,' said Farhana Khera, executive director of Muslim Advocates.
Muslim groups condemn detention of Iranian broadcaster
By Aysha Khan — January 23, 2019
(RNS) – Muslim civil rights organizations have joined press freedom and other human rights groups in questioning the detention of the American-born journalist.
FBI’s new hate crime report captures an America changed by hate
By Simran Jeet Singh — November 13, 2018
(RNS) — The official statistics reflect a climate of growing hate that is emboldened and indeed enacted by those at the top.
The true story of a Jewish news agency that peddled fake news to undo Hitler
By Menachem Wecker — October 1, 2018
(RNS) — A subsidiary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency also reportedly tried, in vain, to work with the FBI to plant anti-Nazi stories, and may have collaborated with the KGB.
Cult leader? ‘Sinful Messiah’? 25 years later, interest in David Koresh still strong
By Bobby Ross Jr. — April 16, 2018
WACO, Texas (RNS) — Twenty-five years after the siege, interest in what happened outside Waco — and who’s to blame — remains immense.
Former FBI agent still haunted by Waco tragedy and David Koresh’s beliefs
By Bobby Ross Jr. — April 16, 2018
WACO, Texas (RNS) — The reporter talks to Bob Ricks, the FBI agent he interviewed a quarter-century ago during the 51-day standoff outside Waco, Texas, between federal agents and an apocalyptic religious sect known as the Branch Davidians.
To keep churches safe, government gets involved
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — January 29, 2018
(RNS) — 'My job as the shepherd of the church is to protect the flock. And I will do so with whatever means I need,' said Richard Reid, pastor of North Baptist Church in Brockton, Mass.
Why religious studies are needed
By Martin E. Marty — December 4, 2017
(RNS) — Most in the public simply scorned all 'cultists,' and life went on. But some experts came out of the shadows and showed that they had light to shine, light which sometimes might prevent alarming and disruptive incidents from taking place.
Forged in Waco’s fires: The FBI and religion scholars reflect on their 25-year relationship
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — November 28, 2017
(RNS) — After a 1993 fire, accidentally triggered by federal authorities, killed 75 members of an obscure Christian sect in Waco, Texas, one of the 'lessons learned' was this: Call in religion experts in a crisis where faith is a factor.
Scandals in the Catholic Church: Bad news and good news
By Thomas Reese — September 19, 2017
(RNS) — 'The Vatican is injuring itself by not being more forthcoming in handling accusations of child abuse against one of its diplomats,' writes Tom Reese.
