WASHINGTON (RNS) Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday (Oct. 14) released his department’s International Religious Freedom Report for 2014, and called terror groups theworld’s greatest threat to religious freedom. The report, considered the most comprehensive accounting of religious freedom violations worldwide, studied nearly 200 countries and territories. But it is nonstate actors, Kerry said at a State…
Discriminations religieuses à l’embauche : une réalité by Marie-Anne Valfort [First Part of the report] [Second Part of the report] [Third Part of the report]
The year is 2022 and France has elected a Muslim president. This is the narrative shell of Submission, a controversial novel by Michel Houellebecq that arrives in Canada on Tuesday, about 10 months after it mangled sensibilities in France. Denounced as Islamophobic, lamented as a “gift” to the far right, the book earned an unsolicited…
A 15-year-old high school student has been arrested after shooting his teacher with a BB gun and shouting “Allahu Akbar” in Châlons-en-Champagne. He arrived at school carrying the gun, an air soft grenade and a knife, intending to kill his literature teacher. The student was taken into custody. “He told investigators that he had [worked…
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday that French jihadists may have been killed during an air strike targeting an Islamic State (IS) camp last week and he deflected criticism, saying the primary objective was to hit the militants. Rafale fighter jets bombed a training camp for suicide bombers near Islamic State’s Syrian stronghold…
