Amid sustained pressure by Christian groups, the Indian government decided not to bring before Parliament a controversial bill that would have led to Christian organizations losing their properties.
Minnesota’s Democratic nominee is an Israel critic – but she is not El-Sayed 2.0
Peggy Flanagan, the likely next senator from Minnesota, defeated a moderate pro-Israel congresswoman, accuses Israel of genocide and says she would oppose offensive weapons sales to Israel.
Judge dismisses Trump administration lawsuit alleging antisemitism at Harvard University
A federal judge in Boston on Thursday dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that accused Harvard University of turning a blind eye to harassment of Jewish students.
Department of Homeland Security Spied on Churches in the Twin Cities
According to documents filed in federal court this week, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent undercover agents into church buildings to track activists attending events at Lutheran, Baptist, Episcopal, and Universalist churches in Minnesota’s Twin Cities (and an event…
Food bank stops supplying church after pastor called Native American ritual ‘idol worship’
A Wyoming church located on a Native American reservation has filed a federal complaint against a local food bank it accused of discrimination after the church’s pastor garnered headlines for denouncing the Sun Dance ritual of the Northern Arapaho Tribe…
Trump’s Racist Post About Abdul El-Sayed And His Wife Was Very Telling
We have reached the point in Donald Trump’s presidency where his Islamophobia is so recycled and predictable that it hardly registers as news — but one of his recent posts reached a new level of both cluelessness and racism.
For refugees to the US, discrimination can make healthcare harder to get
Newly arrived refugees resettling in the United States face ending one long journey and embarking on another as they begin their new life here. But even after years of displacement, people who came to the U.S. as refugees still face significant…
Pope Leo hat giveaway turns White Sox game into the church of baseball
On a hot August night on the South Side of Chicago, Rate Field, home of the White Sox, turned into a church of baseball, filled to capacity with true believers who sang, passed the peace, cheered on a celebrity nun…
How a monument to a Jewish Confederate ended up in a storage unit, next to a vacuum cleaner
Behind an orange roll-up door at a self-storage facility in New Orleans, sits a vacuum cleaner, some lighting gear and a cardboard box.
The Great Agreement: Conspiracy About Israel’s Orchestration of Moroccan Migrants Embraced Across the Spectrum
As scholars and experts have often noted, conspiracy theories proliferate when, in the face of a complex situation or event, people are offered easy answers that tend to confirm preexisting beliefs. So when tens of thousands of Moroccans surged into the Spanish enclave…
Amy-Jill Levine elected first Jewish president of Catholic Biblical Association
When Amy-Jill Levine learned that she was being considered for the presidency of the Catholic Biblical Association of America, the veteran New Testament scholar wondered whether someone was playing a trick on her.
Flunk Those Who Want a Religious Test for Office
The Republican lieutenant governor of Indiana wants to change his state’s Constitution to bar non-Christians from holding public office. A Christian Nationalist pastor who won his spot as part of the gubernatorial ticket with then-U.S. Sen. Mike Braun in 2024,…