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Beyond tolerance: re-centering religious freedom on the individual
Evangelical Focus
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August 27, 2025
I recently participated in an online webinar on religious freedom, peacebuilding, and civil society in the Middle East and North Africa. Webinar participants came from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Sudan, representing both Muslim and Christian...
How’s life under the occupation?
The Westside Gazette - Florida
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September 3, 2025
By Kary Love The US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan as illegally as Putin invaded Ukraine, a bad place to begin “democracy building.” It taught its young troopers how to take over neighborhoods, conduct door-to-kicked-down-door searches and seizures...
Ayman Soliman, ex-hospital chaplain detained by ICE, given trial date for asylum case
The Cincinnati Enquirer - Ohio
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A former hospital chaplain detained by immigration authorities will have his asylum case trial begin in December. Ayman Soliman has been detained since July after his asylum status, granted in 2018, was revoked. The U.S. government alleges Soliman...
Why Trump Wants US Department Of Defence Known As The ‘Department of War’ Again
News18
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September 6, 2025
Last Updated:September 06, 2025, 13:13 IST Arguing that ‘defence’ sounds weak, US President Donald Trump wants to bring back the title America used until 1947: the Department of War Donald Trump has signed an executive order rebranding the...
Gaza’s squandered opportunities
The Spectator Australia
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September 6, 2025
In 2005 the people of Gaza had a great opportunity for a new future filled with hope and potential. Israel, which had been occupying the strip for 38 years, withdrew, thereby allowing the people of Gaza to govern themselves. But they blew it. The...
Estonians lead Finland’s deportation statistics for criminal cases
Helsinki Times
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September 3, 2025
New figures from the Finnish Immigration Service show that Estonia leads the nationality breakdown of foreign nationals ordered to leave Finland due to criminal convictions this year. Between January and July 2025, Migri issued 136 deportation...
HRC elections 2025: As civil society demands an effective and responsive Council, candidates share their pledges
International Service for Human Rights
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September 5, 2025
On 4 September, State candidates to the Human Rights Council (HRC) joined an online event during which they were asked to outline their commitments and plans, should they be elected. Of 14 candidates, 9 were represented at the event: Chile,...
Winners of Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani Endowment Prize announced
The Peninsula
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September 3, 2025
Director of the Department of Research and Islamic Studies Sheikh Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Ghanem Al Thani addressing a press conference in Doha yesterday. Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has announced the winners of the...
The United States’ Shift to a “Department of War”: Trump’s Bold Move and Its Global Implications
Alexa.ng
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Introduction: A Historic Rebranding of American Military Power On September 5, 2025, the United States witnessed a seismic shift in its military nomenclature and, potentially, its strategic posture, as President Donald Trump signed an executive...
Vets Rock
Fort Worth Weekly - Texas
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September 3, 2025
If he weren’t already well-known as one of Fort Worth’s best frontmen for his work with indie-rockers Cut Throat Finches, Sean Russell might have a high profile based on his compassionate activism. Lately, Russell has shown this with efforts to...
NCCAL launches 8th Arab Children’s Theater Festival
Kuwait Times
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September 3, 2025
KUWAIT: The National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) inaugurated the 8th Arab Children’s Theater Festival on Monday with a special opening show titled “Stop”, featuring glimpses of international tales and iconic stories that have...
Australia's 'secret' deportation deal with Nauru to cost taxpayers $2.5billion
Daily Mail
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September 3, 2025
By AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 11:05 EDT, 3 September 2025 | Updated: 11:05 EDT, 3 September 2025 Australian taxpayers will be slugged $2.5 billion over 30 years to deport hundreds of former immigration detainees to Nauru under a...
When a CIA agent recruited a Sufi mystic to spy
The Print
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September 3, 2025
Hunkered down at a freezing mountain outpost on a wind-blasted ridge in northeastern Iraq, Tom Sylvester had recruited a Sufi sheikh and his tribe of flesh-piercing mystics to help America spy on Saddam. For once, at long last, the CIA had...
Digital Legacy AI CEO Glenn Devitt Bridges Military Intelligence and Cybersecurity
IT Security Guru
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September 5, 2025
Former Army Special Operations Intelligence specialist combines battlefield experience with cutting-edge cybersecurity expertise to revolutionize digital inheritance while addressing critical infrastructure vulnerabilities. The cybersecurity...
Gaza Tribunal Launches To Expose Britain’s Role In Genocide
PopularResistance.org
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September 5, 2025
Above photo: Jeremy Corbyn at the launch of the Gaza Tribunal. Peace & Justice Project/X. The Gaza Tribunal was launched in London on September 4, 2025, to expose the British government’s role in Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip. It follows a...
Mark Headlee on ballot for Lamar City Council Ward III
The Prowers Journal - Colorado
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September 6, 2025
Mark Headlee, Candidate for Ward III Lamar City Council This is my platform for the upcoming November 2025 election for the position of Councilman for Ward Three, Lamar City Council: I was born in Denver and have lived in Colorado my entire life,...
Syria Kurds say they thwarted escape bid from camp for IS families
Yahoo News
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Syrian Kurdish forces said Wednesday they thwarted an escape attempt by more than 50 inmates of Al-Hol camp, which holds people suspected of ties to the Islamic State (IS) group. Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria have run camps hosting...
Led Zeppelin, philosophy and punked-up Hollywood at Dubai Fashion Week
The National News
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Blink and you would have missed it. That's how short the show by Lebanese designer Lama Jouni was at Dubai Fashion Week, which concludes this weekend. To the pounding guitar of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, Jouni sent out her models in pairs,...
The Rulers of Eswatini Are Donald Trump’s Eager Accomplices
Jacobin
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September 5, 2025
On July 16, the US Department of Homeland Security’s assistant secretary for public affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, announced that a third-country deportation flight had landed in Eswatini, a small kingdom in southern Africa. The flight contained five...
$30 and You Can Become a Genocide Scholar
Algemeiner Journal
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September 5, 2025
“Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s leading experts say,” blared a BBC headline and similar others in the international media. Damning stuff. After all, who should know more about genocide than the “world’s leading experts” on the...