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Catholic nuns the target of growing Congolese attacks
By Fredrick Nzwili — February 28, 2017
(RNS) The spreading violence has forced some sisters to close their convents and cease working in the communities they serve.
Why I despair over Pakistan’s intractable blasphemy laws (COMMENTARY)
By Kimberly Winston — March 28, 2016
(RNS) Before leaving for Pakistan, I thought countries that enforce blasphemy laws would eventually catch up to the rest of the world. Now I'm not so sure.
Mormon missionaries among Brussels casualties
By Lauren Markoe — March 22, 2016
(RNS) Others in the Paris-based mission have been asked by the church to stay home.
After his death, a Muslim Kenyan who shielded Christians is hailed as hero
By Fredrick Nzwili — January 20, 2016
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) The government described the late teacher, who told the militants to kill all 62 passengers or leave, as a true hero.
In French elections, clashing visions of Muslim identity
By Elizabeth Bryant — December 4, 2015
PARIS (RNS) In this weekend's regional elections, the fledgling Union of French Muslim Democrats party seeks to counter a rising tide of Islamophobia and give France’s five million Muslims a greater political voice.
French Muslims attend Friday prayers under tight security
By Elizabeth Bryant — November 20, 2015
PARIS (RNS) Tens of thousands of faithful responded to calls by Muslim leaders across France to attend Friday prayers in honor of the 130 people who died during last week’s terrorist attacks around Paris.
4 ways ISIS grounds its actions in religion, and why it should matter (COMMENTARY)
By Ayman S. Ibrahim — November 16, 2015
(RNS) One cannot erase the effects of such horrible attacks executed under the banner of religion. To claim that all Muslims are terrorists is far from correct, but to deny or underestimate the power of some Islamic texts and interpretations is not prudent, either.
Kenyan pastors ask for guns amid Christian-Muslim violence
By Fredrick Nzwili — October 31, 2013
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) "The government should issue AK-47 rifles to every church so that we can stop them from being burnt, our property from being looted and our pastors and Christians from being killed,” said the Rev. Lambert Mbela after another pastor was shot dead.
Assault on professor part of wave of attacks on Sikhs, Muslims, others
By Omar Sacirbey — September 24, 2013
(RNS) It is not clear whether the attacks on Dr. Prabhjot Singh and the Muslim woman, who was also treated at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, are related. But many say the motives, if not the perpetrators, are depressingly familiar.
“Shame on you, Michele [Bachmann]!”: The new McCarthyism
By Omid Safi — July 19, 2012
Chief Republican strategist: Michele Bachmann "this is downright vicious and reaches the late Senator Joe McCarthy level."
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