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Pope praises Latvians for keeping faith during occupation
AGLONA, Latvia (AP) — Pope Francis praised Latvians on Monday for persevering through the horrors of Soviet and Nazi occupation, persecution and exile, and urged them to keep their Christian faith alive as subsequent generations confront new oppressions today. On the third day of his Baltic pilgrimage,...
UK police: possible hate crime outside Muslim center; 3 hurt
LONDON (AP) — British police are investigating a possible hate crime after a car hit pedestrians near a Muslim community center, injuring three people. Police were called early Wednesday morning after a confrontation developed between four people in a car and a large group of people visiting a Muslim...
ACLU: Facebook allows gender-biased job ads on its platform
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is allowing job ads on its platform that exclude women, according to the American Civil liberties Union. In a complaint filed Tuesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the ACLU lists 10 employers that it claims have placed ads on Facebook that violate federal and...
Town accused of bias against Orthodox Jews settles lawsuit
MAHWAH, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey town has agreed to repeal an ordinance that state officials said discriminated against Orthodox Jews. The moves, announced Monday, resolve a lawsuit the state attorney general's office filed against Mahwah last October. The town had already repealed an ordinance that barred...
$1.5M settlement for Muslim workers fired in prayer dispute
DENVER (AP) — A big U.S. meatpacker has agreed to pay $1.5 million to 138 Somali-American Muslim workers who were fired from their jobs at a Colorado plant after they were refused prayer breaks, a federal anti-discrimination agency said Friday. Cargill Meat Solutions, a division of Minnesota-based...
Trump's Education Department weighs in on anti-Semitism case
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's Education Department has reopened an old discrimination case against Rutgers University and is revisiting what constitutes anti-Semitism. The case stems from a 2011 event sponsored at Rutgers by an outside organization that was accused of charging Jewish attendees...
Prison accused of discriminatory treatment of Muslim woman
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A civil rights group alleges that staff at a privately run Kansas prison repeatedly disparaged a Muslim woman for wearing a headscarf and ordered her to take it off before she left her cell. Washington-based Muslim Advocates raised concerns about the treatment of 49-year-old...
Pope says he hopes to visit Japan next year, fulfilling wish
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis said Wednesday he hopes to visit Japan next year, a trip that would enable him to draw attention to both the legacy of Christian martyrs centuries ago and survivors of the atomic bombs in 1945. Francis made the announcement while meeting with members of a visiting Japanese...
UN chief urges accountability for Myanmar crimes on Rohingya
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for accountability for the "horrendous persecution" of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar on Tuesday, and Sweden and the Netherlands urged the Security Council to refer the crimes to the International Criminal Court. But China, which has close ties...
Muslim school sues Delaware city for discrimination at pool
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A Muslim school is suing the Delaware city where several children were asked to leave a public pool because of their cotton garments. The News Journal reports the Darul Amaanah Academy says in the lawsuit filed Wednesday that city staff harassed and discriminated against seven...
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