Across continents, women face the same struggle under different names. Some are told to cover their faces in the name of morality, others are told to uncover them in the name of freedom. The result is ...
A Mosque which refused to allow women and girls over the age of 12 to take part in a charity fun run has been forced to scrap its 'regressive' and 'sexist' ban following an investigation by The Mail ...
A senior Labour cabinet minister has criticised a mosque for banning women and girls over the age of 12 from participating in a charity fun run. Housing secretary Steve Reed said the controversial ...
Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...
In late March, Rabi’a Keeble, the founder of Qal’bu Maryam, a women-centered mosque in Berkeley, California, announced her decision to close the place of worship due to diminishing resources and ...
(RNS) — Mosques led by women are disappearing, along with their push for equal rights for women and LGBTQ+ Muslims. (RNS) — In late March, Rabi’a Keeble, the founder of Qal’bu Maryam, a women-centered ...
The Hijab Rights Advocacy Initiative (HRAI) has strongly condemned the recent attacks on two niqabi-wearing Muslim women in Lagos and Ibadan. The group said the assaults stripped the women of their ...
“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.” Nearly eighty years after this statement by Simone de Beauvoir, it’s still true that womanhood is not a biological or natural given, but a product of ...
Kazakhstan is prohibiting people from wearing clothing in public that obscures the face and impedes facial recognition, becoming the latest Central Asian country to restrict veils worn by Muslim women ...
On a Wednesday evening in April, seven women gathered on a beach near Los Angeles to pray maghrib, the fourth of five daily Islamic prayers. It was their way of paying tribute to their friend Hasna ...
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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...