Monthly Archives: January 2016
Social media and grieving (Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Video)
By Sally Morrow — January 27, 2016
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly investigates how social media changes the way we mourn and grieve.
Morocco summit pushes Muslim clerics to improve the lot of religious minorities
By Aida Alami — January 27, 2016
MARRAKESH, Morocco (RNS) Participants unveiled the Marrakesh Declaration, an updated bill of rights for religious minorities, inspired by the the Prophet Muhammad's Charter of Medina.
Iranian pastor’s wife files court papers against recently freed husband
By Timothy C. Morgan — January 27, 2016
(RNS) Naghmeh Abedini filed domestic legal papers to ensure her children stay in Boise, where she is living.
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly – January 29, 2016
By Religion News LLC — January 27, 2016
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly is a production of THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET. Visit www.pbs.org/religionandethics for additional information. Show #1922 will be fed over PBS at 5:00 p.m. EST on January 29, 2016 (check local listings). Ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva Controversy – Some Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Yeshivas in New York are being sued for not teaching the secular curriculum required […]
Faithful Viewer: Biopic about black preacher is toast of Sundance
By Kimberly Winston — January 27, 2016
(RNS) "The Birth of a Nation," a biopic about the 19th-century black preacher, slave and revolutionary Nat Turner, was picked up by Fox Searchlight Pictures for a record $17.5 million on Tuesday (Jan. 26).
Bishop warns: Lord’s Resistance Army re-emerging in Central African Republic
By Fredrick Nzwili — January 27, 2016
(RNS) The Roman Catholic cleric said the LRA, led by self-declared prophet Joseph Kony, has become one of the biggest threats to peace in his country and in the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan.
Hartford Seminary adds Ph.D. to its degree offerings
By Religion News LLC — January 27, 2016
For more than a century, the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations has embodied Harford Seminary’s commitment to the study of Islam and Christianity and the complex relationship between the two religions throughout history and in the modern world. As an extension of that commitment, the Seminary will offer a Ph.D. […]
Voters warm to candidates who are not religious
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 27, 2016
(RNS) Americans still prefer a strongly religious president but it's no longer essential, a new survey finds.
Sieberg, top journalists among leaders of spring Religion Communicators convention
By Religion News LLC — January 27, 2016
NEW YORK — Daniel Sieberg of Google News Lab, is being joined by representatives of some of the nation’s top media organizations as well as many other experts at the intersection of media and religion to lead the Religion Communicators Council’s (RCC) annual convention, March 31-April 2, in New York City. Religion communicators will build […]
Mormon-produced romantic comedy series premieres today
By Jana Riess — January 27, 2016
A Mormon romantic comedy about Adam and Eve sets the scene: God destined them to be together, but she's just not that into him.
World marks Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Kim Hjelmgaard — January 27, 2016
The anniversary, marked each year since 2005, falls on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland by the Russian army in 1945. One million people died there.
Milwaukee man allegedly planned mass shooting
By Reuters — January 27, 2016
MILWAUKEE — "We are Muslims, defending Muslim religion, we are on our own ...," said Samy Mohamed Hamzeh, 23, according to the complaint.
Bar association looks into discrimination complaint at BYU law school
By Mark A. Kellner — January 26, 2016
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) A dissident group has complained about the school’s practice of expelling students who leave the LDS faith or live in same-sex relationships.
Ted Cruz’s evangelical problem (COMMENTARY)
By Mark Silk — January 26, 2016
(RNS) There’s got to be something more that’s made a lot of evangelicals wary of throwing their support to Cruz, and I think I know what it is.
Pope Francis: World’s powerful risk hell by ignoring the poor
By David Gibson — January 26, 2016
(RNS) “The greater their power and wealth, the more this blindness and deception can grow,” the pontiff writes in his Lenten message for the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.
