[slingshot_ad name=”Slingshot Banner Ad”]
Need to know: Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Man who led police to bombing suspect is an immigrant, too
Harinder Singh Bains, originally from India and a Sikh, recognized the suspect asleep in a bar doorway in northern New Jersey.
Christian university expels student after racial social media post
Belmont University tossed a freshman who Snapchatted a racial slur and a threat against African-American football players.
Pakistani Christian charged with blasphemy over Mecca snap
Nabeel Chohan was arrested for liking and sharing on social media a disparaging photograph of the Kaaba, the building that Muslims turn and pray to five times a day.
Pastor’s lawyers: Funneling church money into wife’s music career was in church’s best interest
Kong Hee of Singapore was convicted of misusing $50 million of his City Harvest Church funds partly to support his wife, Sun Ho, who planned to release an album in the U.S.
Chabad is Orthodox, but Jewish students it caters to are not
Chabad claims it isn’t interested in making more Hasidim, and a new study bears that out.
[slingshot_ad name=”Slingshot Middle Cube Ad”]
Latest news from RNS
Botswana deporting U.S. pastor over anti-gay views
GABORONE, Botswana (Reuters) -- Steven Anderson, of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona, notoriously welcomed the gunning down in June of 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida by saying "there's 50 less pedophiles in this world."
Obama names last adviser to his final faith-based council
Rami Nashashibi co-founded the Inner-City Muslim Action Network in 1997.
‘Science Mike’ McHargue: ‘Christians aren’t stupid, and atheists aren’t evil’
The online personality has forged a community with others like him who can’t comfortably call themselves either Christian or atheist.
More views from RNS
In the name of freedom, porn is trashing our lives
(RNS) Fourteen hundred years ago, the Quran warned that the spreading of indecent acts such as pornography only results in pain and misery for society.
On avoiding manic-depressive Christian engagement with culture
For faithful Christian witness regardless of circumstances and with a more humble reading of God's actions in history.
Muslims love New York, too
As we deal with the arrest of Ahmad Khan Rahami, there is fear of a backlash against people with brown skin, writes Hussein Rashid.
[slingshot_ad name=”Slingshot Bottom Cube Ad”]
Bonus tracks
- In Assisi, Pope Francis lunches with world refugees
- Japan’s newest technology innovation: Priest delivery
- Why go to Vatican City when you can see the Sistine Chapel at the Texas State Fair?
- Brexit prompts some Jewish Britons to reconcile with German roots
- D. Keith Mano, novelist who tackled Christianity, sex and more, dies at 74
