Justice Stephen Breyer will not express an opinion on Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, in keeping with two centuries of Supreme Court tradition. But he did express an opinion on a related point: American courts are unlikely to allow Muslims to be held in detention camps.
TEL AVIV – Christians in Nazareth, already victims of nearly institutionalized Muslim intimidation, need to contend with yet another extremist threat. Israel’s Shin Bet security agency earlier this month announced the arrest of Israeli Arab youths from Nazareth for declaring
Catholic Cardinal Daniel Sturla wants “flexibility” in the application of a new law requiring zero blood alcohol for Uruguayan drivers, insisting that priests who say Mass necessarily consume some wine during the ceremony.
Islamists in Turkey have once again taken to the streets to protest New Year’s Eve celebrations, warning that use of Western imagery such as Santa Claus and the tradition of exchanging presents is corrosive to Muslim culture.
Tuesday night on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said we need to start surveillance on mosques because “not enough mosques and imams cooperate.” King said, “There is a number of mosques on Long Island where
TEL AVIV – An Egyptian political scientist called upon his country to address the forced “displacement, oppression, and collective punishment” of Egyptian Jews in the 1950s and 1960s. In a column for Egyptian daily Al-Shuruq translated by MEMRI , Hamzawy called
TEL AVIV – A man has won a court case after refusing a police order on the Temple Mount to drop his hands, a gesture which could be perceived as praying and therefore offensive to Muslims, the Jewish Press reported.
A priest in the Philippines who rode around his church on a hoverboard at the end of Christmas mass has been temporarily suspended by his diocese for a period to “reflect” on his actions.
A group of Christians in Iran have been arrested while attending church on Christmas Day in Shiraz. The church was raided by plain-clothes officers from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security who confiscated personal items and satellite dishes and behaved
Per a report by Turnto23, police said a man wrapped raw bacon around the door of a Las Vegas, NV mosque over the weekend. Police are investigating the incident captured on video as a possible hate crime since pork or bacon
The latest depredations of the Islamic State include the bombing of Assyrian Christian homes, and a monastery occupied by Assyrian nuns, plus the vandalism of a Christian cemetery in Kirkuk.
TEL AVIV – The most popular baby name in Israel in 2014 is Mohammed, according to a report released by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Sunday.
Sydney – Jesus was not Palestinian a major church denomination in Australia said after the Executive Council of Australian Jewry challenged an article in a political publication in which the birthplace of Jesus Christ was named as “Palestine.”
Oregon bakery owners who denied service to a same-sex couple have paid $135,000 in state-ordered damages – after refusing to do so for nearly six months.
Seventy-year-old Cuban-American Francisco Morales, who has lived in the United States for 40 years, was arrested in Cuba on December 23 for setting up a public Christmas display featuring an inflatable Santa Claus and Mickey Mouse.
TEL AVIV – A new Torah scroll written in honor of the 72 IDF soldiers who were killed during Operation Protective Edge was dedicated in Tel Aviv on Sunday night. The Torah was donated to the North Central Synagogue which
JERUSALEM – Jewish organizations in Crimea and Russia have denounced statements made by Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko, accusing Russia of fomenting anti-semitism and violating the rights of Jews in Crimea. Community leaders issued a joint statement on Friday saying “Jewish
On this week’s broadcat of “Fox News Sunday,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said more surveillance of mosques is needed due to where the threat exists. King said civil libertarians, “can cry all they want.” “The fact is that’s where the threat
The 13th-century scholar Thomas Aquinas, regarded as one of the most eminent medieval philosophers and theologians, offered a biting critique of Islam based in large part on the questionable character and methods of its founder, Mohammed.
While Christians across the Muslim world suffer oppression, humiliation, and slaughter, the Huffington Post continues to pound out an alternative reality about the “religion of peace.”
A Jordanian journalist condemned fatwas being circulated around the Muslim world banning Muslims from wishing Christmas greetings to Christians, saying that such extremism eventually leads to terrorism. In an article the for Jordanian daily Al-Ghad translated by MEMRI, the journalist
Pope Francis urged the world in his Christmas message on Friday to unite to end atrocities by Islamist militants that he said were causing immense suffering in many countries. Security was tight at the Vatican as Francis, marking the third
The head of the British government’s charities regulator says Muslim charities face a “deadly” threat from terrorist infiltration, with some being used to promote, and recruit for, violent jihad. Latest figures from the Charity Commission show the number of serious incidents
Christians in Iraqi Kurdistan were determined to keep their Christmas Christian traditions, even though attacks from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda have decimated the population.
According to a Gallup poll, one in five American adults has no formal religious identification, a five percentage-point jump since 2008.
