By Matthew Bell People from Syria, lucky enough to have escaped the civil war alive, then to make it all the way to the United States as refugees, have stepped into a political free-fire zone. More than half of US governors, all but one of them Republicans, say that Syrian refugees are not Continue Reading
How Halal Food Became a $20 Billion Hit in America
By Craig Giammona Sometimes, culinary trends move in sync with political ones. Sauerkraut was renamed “liberty cabbage” when the U.S. was at war with Germany, and a more recent falling-out with the French led to the invention of “freedom fries.” But sometimes they move in mysterious ways. In Continue Reading
Austrian cardinal clarifies: It’s not ‘Islamic conquest’ but Christian surrender
By Josephine McKenna ROME (RNS) Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a close ally of Pope Francis, is trying to clarify a provocative warning he made that Europe is at risk of an “Islamic conquest” because it has squandered its Christian heritage. The archbishop of Vienna made headlines when Continue Reading
Evangelicals Ignore G.O.P. by Embracing Syrian Refugees
By RICHARD FAUSSET and ALAN BLINDER SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 MARIETTA, Ga. — William Stocks, a white, Alabama-born, Republican-leaning member of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church, arrived at the tiny apartment of a Syrian refugee family on a Wednesday night after work. He was wearing a green-striped golf Continue Reading
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