IRFU allows Muslim woman to wear hijab in competitive rugby
Ruba Rosalina Bukhatwa, known to her teammates as Rose, may become the first Muslim women in Ireland to play competitive rugby in the hijab. Tallaght […]
Month: March 2016
US art museum returns stolen Hindu statue to Cambodia
A 10th-century sandstone sculpture of the Hindu god Rama returned to Cambodia decades after it was stolen from a temple during the kingdom’s civil war. […]
UN Secretary-General condemns rising anti-Muslim and anti-refugee bigotry
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the divisive myth-making of the far-right and the growing hostility towards Muslims,refugees, Jewish communities and other minorities. His remarks at […]
Pope Francis to visit Auschwitz death camp in July
Pope Francis will visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in July, as part of World Youth Day. This trip coincides with his five day trip to […]
Dr Michael Siegel: the Jewish lawyer who survived Nazi violence and humiliation on March 10, 1933
The year is 1933 and Hitler’s rise to power is imminent. Days earlier and the Nazis had exploited the burning of the Reichstag, home of […]
Slovakia election: neo-Nazi party gains fourteen seats
Slovakia’s ruling party lost its parliamentary majority, and neo-Nazis gained 8 per cent of the vote in Saturday’s election. More than 200,000 Slovakians voted for […]
Hindu and Sikh villagers rebuild mosque shut since 1947
Sikh and Hindu villagers in a Malla village in Ludhiana, India helped renovate and re-open a historic mosque. The mosque had closed in 1947 due […]