“Local Rwandan radios would use propaganda to incite Hutus to violence. Broadcasts included such statements as, “You have to kill the Tutsis, they’re cockroaches. We must all fight the Tutsis. We must finish with them, exterminate them, sweep them from the whole country. There must be no refuge for them.”   This week marks the... Continue Reading

“But Canon Pemberton, 58, now faces disciplinary action from the Church and could be expelled from his work as a priest because the House of Bishops has barred clergy from entering such unions, saying they undermine its traditional teaching that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.”   A senior Church of... Continue Reading

“I can no longer be a part of a system that continues to do the exact opposite of what I am supposed to do as a teacher – I am supposed to help them think for themselves, help them find solutions to problems, help them become productive members of society. Instead, the emphasis is on... Continue Reading

The Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement, that provides legal assistance to those charged with blasphemy, in a press statement condemned the latest death sentence. The Christian couple, the CLAAS pointed out, were illiterate but convicted of sending a blasphemous text message in English from their mobile phone that they had reported stolen.  ... Continue Reading

Dominican Sister Jane Dominic Laurel, who often speaks to high school and college-age students on matters of sexuality, gave an hour-long presentation to students at Charlotte Catholic High School on March 21 called “Masculinity and Femininity: Difference and Gift.”  School officials told the Catholic News Herald she spent about half her allotted time discussing homosexuality,... Continue Reading

The company, which created the popular web browser Firefox, promoted Brendan Eich from chief technology officer to its top leadership position on March 24. He’s certainly qualified for the job. Eich co-founded Mozilla and invented JavaScript, one of the web’s most ubiquitous programming languages. But Eich also supports traditional marriage, and that, his detractors say,... Continue Reading

The Bronx Household of Faith sued, saying the policy unfairly targeted religious exercise. A district court granted a preliminary injunction against the policy, but the 2nd Circuit reversed the injunction, kicking churches out of schools. Then the Bronx church filed suit again on different constitutional grounds. The district court granted churches a full injunction, allowing... Continue Reading

When parents can abort a baby because it’s a girl, they are guilty of the worst kind of sexism. Rape, porn, the tyranny of beauty that compels little girls to perform plastic surgery to attain perfection: these are nothing in comparison to the mindset that will not allow for girls to be conceived in the... Continue Reading

…are the middle and upper-middle income American children with college degrees who refuse to work because they think they are entitled to high-paying jobs with prestigious assignments that allow them to seek employment only when they feel like it. They expect first-rate material items – cars, clothing, the latest technology. They are, after all, entitled….... Continue Reading

“We must ensure that Tunisia is a success story because if it doesn’t then no other Arab country will succeed,” Hamdi told Reuters last month while in Paris….“At the end of the day, democracy thrives in a stable, economically vibrant society and region as well,” Ben Achour said. “What happens in Algeria will affect Tunisia.... Continue Reading