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Rice and chicken: Bringing Nigerian Christmas to the US
By Kimberly Winston — December 21, 2016
(RNS) Nigerian-American author Okey Ndibe recalls how, during a civil war, his family plowed all of its available resources into a single meal of rice and -- that rarest of treats -- chicken.
World Relief scrambling to settle more refugees in US
By Lauren Markoe — October 18, 2016
(RNS) The Obama administration has raised the ceiling on the number of refugees that Americans will welcome in the coming year.
French court suspends burkini ban
By Jerome Socolovsky — August 26, 2016
PARIS -- A top French court on Friday suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has angered Muslims, feminists and civil liberties campaigners.
New York grand jury indicts man for murder of Muslim cleric
By Jerome Socolovsky — August 22, 2016
NEW YORK -- A New York City grand jury on Monday indicted a Brooklyn man who is accused of fatally shooting a Muslim cleric and his assistant this month after they left a mosque in Queens.
Donald Trump’s jihad on Muslims
By Arsalan Iftikhar — August 15, 2016
(RNS) Trump believes that if we just utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism' enough times, an Aladdin-esque blue genie in a bottle will come defeat ISIS in one fell swoop.
Caught between two cultures
By Jerome Socolovsky — June 13, 2016
(RNS) What leads the son of immigrants from a far-flung conservative nation to reportedly abuse his ex-wife and be repulsed by homosexuality?
Brooklyn’s Catholic bishop decries ‘racism and xenophobia’
By David Gibson — May 22, 2016
NEW YORK (RNS) Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio seems to take aim at Donald Trump and his supporters, but he uses data more than Scripture to argue that deportations would hurt the U.S. economy.
Trump hits back at British prime minister over Muslim ban
By guest — May 16, 2016
"It looks like we're not going to have a very good relationship,” Trump said, referring to British Prime Minister David Cameron.
Pope to make lightning trip to migrant island in Aegean Sea
By Reuters — April 7, 2016
VATICAN CITY -- Hundreds of thousands of refugees, many fleeing war in Syria, have poured onto the Greek island of Lesbos over the past year, triggering Europe's biggest humanitarian crisis in generations.
Pope says don’t turn backs on refugees
By Reuters — March 20, 2016
VATICAN CITY -- Leading Palm Sunday services, Francis departed from his homily to criticize the treatment of refugees.
By taking in migrant children, Jewish camps are putting religion into action (COMMENTARY)
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 5, 2016
(RNS) We should be cheering these Jewish leaders who are walking the walk and talking the talk, the biblical walk and talk, that is.
Somali Muslim migrants lose factory jobs in prayer dispute
By Reuters — January 1, 2016
Nearly 200 workers, mostly Somali immigrants, were fired after they walked out in protest over what they called insufficient prayer accommodations.
Some heed Pope Francis’ call to succor refugees; others look away
By Reuters — December 22, 2015
Arms have opened wide in some places, but indifference, bureaucracy, fear and xenophobia have reared their heads elsewhere, particularly after the attack by Islamic militants who killed 130 people in Paris last month.
Pope Francis expected to visit US-Mexico border in February, adviser says
By David Gibson — November 4, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga said he expects the pontiff to travel to the U.S. border with Mexico when he visits that country in February -- a stop that could fuel further criticism of the pontiff from conservative Catholics opposed to the church’s support for immigration reform.
Pope Francis came to praise, to provoke — and to bless
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — September 23, 2015
WASHINGTON (RNS) The pope delivered a strong address to the shepherds of the U.S. Catholic church but the flock heard love and respect threaded through his homily.
