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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is the leading institution dedicated to the humanitarian needs of the besieged people in the Gaza Strip amid Israel’s devastating war, which has left more than 43,000 people dead, nearly half that number orphaned, and more than 100,000 wounded. And […]
(ANALYSIS) As the star of the scathing documentary “Religulous” — “religious” plus “ridiculous” — Bill Maher has never hidden his agnostic views about faith. But that doesn’t mean the stand-up comic doubts the reality of evil. Consider his blistering comment on smartphones, drawn from his “Real Time” talk show earlier this year. Far too many […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s looming return to office is causing sleepless nights in Europe. Diplomats expect Trump 2.0 will cause more headaches because the world is less stable today than it was in 2017. Chief among their fears is the growing partnership between Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea. “Trump is getting one global theater. […]
MBW Reacts is a series of analytical commentaries from Music Business Worldwide written in response to major recent entertainment events or news stories. Only MBW+ subscribers have unlimited access to these articles. Boyd Muir, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Universal Music Group, expects “super-premium” subscription tiers to start appearing in 2025 – […]
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Former Jets coach Paul Maurice once declared that there would be a statue erected of Mark Scheifele outside Canada Life Centre one day – likely not long after his career with Winnipeg concluded. Well, Tuesday night in a game where the Jets undoubtedly needed their star players to stand […]
(ANALYSIS) Do the Ten Commandments have a valid place in U.S. classrooms? Louisiana’s Legislature and governor insist the answer is “yes.” But on Nov. 12, 2024, a federal judge said “no.” U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles blocked the state’s controversial House Bill 71, which Gov. Jeff Landry had signed into law on June 19, […]
If Crikey readers — who generally skew older, like most people who continue to pay for news — want an insight into just how different Australia’s young people are from them, they can do worse than have a look at the data from the Scanlon Foundation’s social cohesion report. Some of the reported outcomes of the […]
In the U.K, there was a 15% increase in incidents compared to 2022, with some 700 cases reported. Several of these were against converts from Islam, including Javed Nouri, who narrowly survived an attempted murder by his roommate, who believed he “deserved to die.” Germany witnessed a much more dramatic increase of 105%, with 227 […]
A pair of undersea data cables in the Baltic Sea mysteriously stopped working in the last two days, and the first reaction from Germany and Finland, two NATO members, was essentially, “What have the Russians done now?” followed by, sotto voce, “Is there a chance this was an accident?” The two cables—one between Sweden and […]
(ANALYSIS) I have been keeping an Artificial Intelligence folder for several weeks now, with a focus — naturally — on topics that should interest religious leaders. In terms of nightmare scenarios affecting congregational life, I tended to think about the growing market for AI sermon programs, which I see as an updated version of the old […]