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Religion

An example of the kind of Quran in prisons. Texts like these cost less than $5 to purchase on the outside, but county jails sell them for almost quadruple that price. (Joseph Darius Jaafari/PA Post)
Courts & Law
PA Post

Christians pray at a discount: Muslim prisoners charged more for religious texts

A PA Post review of county jails' commissaries finds that Muslim prisoners meet financial barriers to practicing their religion.

7 years ago

People walk through the Orthodox Jewish section of a Brooklyn neighborhood last month. Tensions remain high in Jewish communities following a series of attacks and incidents in recent weeks. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Community

‘It’s getting very scary’: Hasidic Jews change routines amid anti-semitic attacks

The streets of Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood are usually busy with Hasidic families coming and going.

7 years ago

A rainbow gay pride flag flies below the U.S. flag last year in front of the Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village, Kan. (Charlie Riedel/AP Photo)
NPR
Community

United Methodist Church announces proposal to split over gay marriage

The United Methodist Church announced a proposal to split the denomination over what it called "fundamental differences" regarding same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy.

7 years ago

Joey Covino poses for a photo at his home in Saugus, Mass. Covino was abused when he was 9-years-old by Rev. Richard J. McCormick at a summer camp in Massachusetts.  (Elise Amendola/AP Photo)
Community

Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists

Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry.

7 years ago

Clouds are lit by the rising sun over St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Philadelphia.
Community

Pennsylvania dioceses offer $84M to 564 clergy abuse victims

Seven of the state’s eight dioceses launched victim compensation funds in the wake of a landmark grand jury report on sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

7 years ago

Notre Dame cathedral is pictured in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. (Thibault Camus/AP Photo)
Community

Notre Dame rector: Fragile cathedral might not be saved

The rector says experts must first remove scaffolding that was on the cathedral before the fire, because the scaffolding is threatening the vaults.

7 years ago

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the National Museum of American Jewish History. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg inducted into Philly Jewish museum’s hall of fame

The Supreme Court member connected her strives for justice to religious tradition.

7 years ago

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A worshipper wears an
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Religion and politics

A majority of Americans believe religion should be involved in society but not in politics. This hour, we discuss the intersection between religion and politics.

Air Date: December 19, 2019 10:00 am

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Yeshiva University students Aaron Heideman, (left), and Marc Shapiro study in the university's library in New York, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. They praised President Donald Trump's executive order to expand the scope of potential anti-Semitism complaints on U.S. college campuses. They said they worry that friends attending other universities might be targeted by anti-Semitic attacks and that this could help protect them. (Luis Andres Henao/AP Photo)

Anti-Semitism order raises tough issue of defining prejudice

President Donald Trump’s order to expand the scope of potential anti-Semitism complaints on college campuses is raising the stakes of an already tense battle.

7 years ago

Marie Andrews holds a pyx, the vessel she uses to transport the consecrated Communion wafer to homebound parishioners. Andrews is an officially sanctioned Eucharistic minister in the Roman Catholic Church. (Shahla Farzan/St. Louis Public Radio)
NPR
Community

Possibility of female deacons gives some catholics hope

Elsie McGrath is an unlikely renegade. For much of her life, the 81-year-old tried to avoid confrontation and follow the rules.

7 years ago

Victim advocate Jennifer Storm, second left, joins survivors of child sexual abuse including Patty Fortney-Julius, third left, and Mary McHale, second right, waiting for a news conference in the Pennsylvania Capitol, in Harrisburg, Pa. (Marc Levy/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Pennsylvania’s sexual abuse laws leave survivors conflicted

When Pennsylvania overhauled its child sexual abuse laws after a years-long battle, absent from the bill-signing ceremony were some of the people who had worked hard.

7 years ago

TikTok has unblocked the video of 17-year-old Feroza Aziz of New Jersey criticizing China's treatment of minority Muslims (https://www.tiktok.com/@getmefamouspartthree/video/6762657542972689670)
Community

TikTok unblocks N.J. teen who posted on China’s Muslims

Chinese-owned video app TikTok says it has unblocked a U.S. teenager and restored her viral video condemning China’s treatment of its Muslim minority.

7 years ago

In this Sep. 17, 2018, file satellite image provided by Planet Labs, buildings are seen around the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. This is one of a number of internment camps in the Xinjiang region. Experts say the Chinese government has detained up to 1.8 million Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities for what it calls voluntary job training. But a classified blueprint leaked to news organizations shows the camps are precisely what former detainees have described: Forced re-education centers. (Planet Labs via AP, File)
Community

Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work

The classified documents lay out the Chinese government’s deliberate strategy to lock up ethnic minorities even before they commit a crime.

7 years ago

This screenshot taken from the Xinjiang Legal News Network website shows the former head of the Xinjiang Communist Party Political and Legal Affairs Commission, Zhu Hailun, giving a speech at a work conference in Urumqi, China on February 2, 2017. Classified documents, issued under the authority of Zhu and some annotated and signed personally by him, were leaked to a consortium of news organizations. The confidential documents lay out the Chinese government's deliberate strategy to lock up ethnic minorities to rewire their thoughts and even the language they speak. (AP Photo)
Community

The man behind China’s detention of 1 million Muslims

Newly revealed, confidential documents show that the official, Zhu Hailun, played a key role in planning and executing a campaign that has swept up a million or more Uighurs.

7 years ago

Parishioners worship during a Mass at St. Paul Cathedral, the mother church of the Pittsburgh Diocese. After more than a decade of investigations into sexual abuse in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church, last year's grand jury report still contained new revelations. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Clergy abuse reparations are closure for some victims, resurface trauma for others

After more than a decade of investigations into sexual abuse in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church, last year's grand jury report still contained new revelations.

7 years ago

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