November 2012
November 21st, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Religion's Mighty Rivers, Latest News with 0 Comments
ROME (AP) — Italian police have blocked access to a white supremacist website and arrested four people for allegedly inciting racial hatred and spreading anti-Semitism.
Authorities on Friday blocked Stormfront, a white supremacist website based in the United States, and shut down its Italian-language forum.
They also confiscated knives, batons and baseball bats as well neo-Nazi and Fascist...
November 21st, 2012
Written by Daud Yussuf - A... in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
GARISSA, Kenya (AP) - More than a dozen people have been shot, one woman has died and hundreds of shops were burned to the ground in this eastern Kenyan town amid rising Somali-Kenyan tensions, officials said Tuesday.
The violence follows a lethal attack here on Monday in which three Kenyan soldiers were killed. Local sympathizers of al-Shabab - a Somali Islamist extremist group that Kenyan...
November 21st, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Race & Politics, Latest News with 0 Comments
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Police at the University of Mississippi say they have turned over to the FBI information regarding vandalism apparently aimed at an African-American freshman.
"We are presenting everything we have about this case to them," University Police Chief Calvin Sellers said in The Oxford Eagle (http://bit.ly/RLLA3t). "They will investigate to see if this is a hate crime or civil...
November 20th, 2012
Written by Michael Bieseck... in All About Family, Latest News with 0 Comments
ATLANTA (AP) - The father of Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as a prominent Atlanta preacher and civil rights leader. But as a young man from a poor sharecropping family in rural Georgia, he is said to have walked north to Atlanta barefoot so he didn't wear out his only pair of shoes.
His legacy is now being honored through a community center built to help other low-income people find a path...
November 20th, 2012
Written by Hamza Hendawi -... in Religion's Mighty Rivers, Latest News with 0 Comments
MAR GIRGIS MONASTERY, Egypt (AP) - There was no mention of churches torched or Christians killed, but the prayer neatly written on a tiny piece of paper and placed atop an icon of St. George in the chapel of a desert monastery left no doubt about the growing fear and despair of Egypt's Coptic Christians.
"Oh Lord, for the sake of all the saints of the church, raise high the banner of the cross...