Orlando
Muslim attitudes about LBGT are complex
By Lauren Markoe — June 17, 2016
(RNS) Mainstream Islamic authorities reject gay relationships. But some Muslims hope for change, and say the roots of homophobia within Muslim communities may not be as deep as many think.
Rome interfaith service honors Orlando shooting victims
By David Gibson — June 17, 2016
ROME (RNS) The U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, Kenneth Hackett, attended the service along with diplomats and staff from at least seven embassies.
Mourning around the world for Orlando victims
By Sally Morrow — June 16, 2016
People around the world gathered for vigils, prayer and reflection in the days after the tragedy in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016.
Joel Hunter on nightclub shooting: ‘I’ve got to go back and examine my own heart’
By Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons — June 14, 2016
(RNS) The senior pastor of the 20,000-member, nondenominational Northland Church shared his thoughts on the intersection of LGBT discrimination and religion in light of the shooting.
Omar Mateen committed a hate crime. It’s unclear if he was an Islamist, too
By guest — June 13, 2016
(RNS) After Sunday's violent incident, many have again reverted to the familiar but false dichotomy regarding Muslims in America: that because a gunman is Muslim, he must be a radical, bent on destroying America.
A city is shaken, but determined to keep the faith
By Yonat Shimron — June 13, 2016
(RNS) Much as Central Florida has become more cosmopolitan, accepting of its gay friends and neighbors, it has also gotten to know the growing Islamic community.
God weeps over Orlando
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 13, 2016
God weeps over what happened in Orlando. Now, what are we going to do?
On the worst shooting rampage in modern America
By David P. Gushee — June 12, 2016
On the first Islamist terror attack that was also a hate crime against LGBT people.
#PrayforOrlando lifts thoughts, prayers for shooting victims
By Kimberly Winston — June 12, 2016
(RNS) After the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, people take to social media to #PrayforOrlando.
50 people killed in massacre at Florida gay nightclub
By RNS staff — June 12, 2016
ORLANDO, Fla. — The shooter was identified as Omar S. Mateen, a man who a senior FBI official said might have had leanings toward Islamic State militants. Officials cautioned that the Islamist tie required further investigation.
Isaac Hunter, son of Obama spiritual adviser Joel Hunter, dead in apparent suicide
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — December 10, 2013
(RNS) Isaac Hunter, 36 and father of three, had resigned from his megachurch pulpit after he admitted that he had engaged in an affair with a staff member.
Computer simulator preps military chaplains for the battlefield
By Mark I. Pinsky — February 20, 2013
ORLANDO (RNS) Nothing short of the real thing prepares someone for serving under fire, veterans say, but a computer simulation company here has won a $100,000 development contract to develop a program designed to help prospective military chaplains.
Orlando retirement complex caters to aging Hindu immigrants
By Sraavani Pere — February 5, 2013
(RNS) Fifty years after they began arriving from India, the first generation of Indian-Americans is retiring and finding itself in a quandary: they built successful lives and careers, but never planned for retirement. A Hindu retirement center in Orlando aims to help solve the problem.
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