ISIS
Chaplain violated Army rule in promoting Christian book
By Tom Vanden Brook — June 12, 2015
WASHINGTON — An active-duty Army chaplain has published a book titled "Jesus Was an Airborne Ranger" and appeared in a video in uniform to promote it, raising questions about the service endorsing Christianity as the Pentagon wages wars in Muslim countries.
Faith leaders want US to fund abortions of women raped by terrorists overseas
By Lauren Markoe — June 3, 2015
(RNS) An interfaith group is pushing the Obama administration to allow U.S. aid to pay for abortions for women raped by Boko Haram and other militants.
The jihad of Pamela Geller (COMMENTARY)
By Bruce B. Lawrence — May 6, 2015
(RNS) If ISIS hates the West, Pamela Geller provides its mirror image: hatred of Islam.
5 takeaways from the new report by US Commission on International Religious Freedom
By Brian Pellot — May 5, 2015
(RNS) The Central African Republic is bad, Malaysia is getting worse, and ISIS fighters should face the International Criminal Court.
Kansas man arrested in bomb plot in support of Islamic State
By Reuters — April 13, 2015
(Reuters) A Kansas man was arrested on Friday as part of an FBI sting operation in which he was plotting a suicide car bombing at Fort Riley army base in support of the Islamic State militant group, prosecutors said.
Lapsed ban allows YouTube return for Islamist preacher in Michigan
By Reuters — April 8, 2015
WASHINGTON (Reuters) A Michigan-based Islamist preacher whose online sermons have been a leading source of inspiration for foreign fighters in Syria is free to return to social media after restrictions on his Internet use lapsed.
New Islamic art exhibits planned to counter Islam’s militant image
By Reuters — March 27, 2015
A foundation is funding two new galleries at the British Museum at a time when historic sites in Iraq are under attack by militants of the Islamic State.
Mother kidnaps her Dutch children to join Islamic State
By Reuters — March 17, 2015
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) Dozens of families with children have left the Netherlands to join Islamic State, but this is the first known case of one parent leaving without the other's consent.
Southern Baptists urge Obama to defend ‘the least of these’ against ISIS
By Adelle M. Banks — March 2, 2015
(RNS) “The world will applaud your courage and compassion as you defend those that Scripture calls 'the least of these,'" they wrote.
What ISIS really is: Sham Muslims, real criminals (COMMENTARY)
By Bruce B. Lawrence — February 25, 2015
(RNS) ISIS offers a version of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad that few Muslims would recognize or honor. Like many Christian charlatans, ISIS dresses itself up in all the panoply of true religion.
ISIS versus the West: A clash of civilizations? (COMMENTARY)
By John Farmer — February 23, 2015
(RNS) To a layman it sure as hell looks like a collision of civilizations -- specifically between the advocates of a malignant interpretation of Islam and a Christian West which, a millennium ago, produced the Crusades.
Pope Francis condemns Islamic State’s executions of Christians in Libya
By David Gibson — February 16, 2015
VATICAN CITY (RNS) "Be they Catholic, Orthodox, Copts, Lutherans, it doesn't matter: They're Christian! The blood is the same: It is the blood which confesses Christ," Francis said.
Poll: 1 in 4 Americans say Islamic State represents true Islam
By Aamer Madhani — February 12, 2015
(RNS) Forty-five percent of the senior Protestant pastors surveyed say the Islamic State, also known as ISIL or ISIS, "gives a true indication of what an Islamic society looks like."
2014 in review: An unsettling year, with religion in a starring role
By Kevin Eckstrom — December 17, 2014
(RNS) Remember Bishop Bling? Mark Driscoll? Brittany Maynard? They all helped shape the top religion headlines of 2014.
Child soldiers enlisted to fight against Islamic State in Syria
By Sophie Cousins — November 17, 2014
QAMISHLI, Syria (RNS) A Kurdish boy who looks no older than 11 mans the entrance of a military base in northeastern Syria. His pants drag on the ground and his shirt hangs off his bony shoulders as he stands in an ill-fitting military uniform next to a Kalashnikov automatic rifle. Like many of the child […]
