Today's religion and world affairs news from the United States and around the globe: Nigerian president-elect Muhammadu Buhari on Boko Haram, the Kenyan government reaches out to Muslims, and looking at the faith of US presidential candidate Marco Rubio.
AROUND THE WORLD
We Will Stop Boko Haram
by Muhammadu Buhari
New York Times op-ed
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/opinion/muhammadu-buhari-we-will-stop-boko-haram.html?ref=opinion
Boko Haram feeds off despair. It feeds off a lack of hope that things can improve. It is our intention to show Boko Haram that it will not succeed.
The Right to Speak Out in India
New York Times editorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/opinion/the-right-to-speak-out-in-india.html?ref=opinion
The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not the first to conjure the threat of the meddling “foreign hand” or to silence citizens protesting development projects. But his government has taken this to an alarming new level.
After Attack and Backlash, Kenya Faces Battle to Win Over Muslims
by Edith Honan and Drazen Jorgic
Reuters
http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2015/04/13/after-attack-and-backlash-kenya-faces-battle-to-win-over-muslims/
Days after Islamists killed 148 people at Garissa university, Kenya’s president held out an olive branch to Muslims and urged them to join Nairobi in the struggle against militant Islam by informing on sympathizers.
The Century of Genocide
National editorial
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/editorial/the-century-of-genocide
The 2006 UN Security Council resolution, which compels the international community to intervene if a genocide is occurring, was both an acknowledgement of the brutal legacy of the 20th century and a way to make the 21st the one when genocides were consigned to history.
His Holiness the 17th Karmapa on Tibet, China, and Happiness
by Kira Brekke
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/13/holiness-the-17th-karmapa_n_7057622.html
The spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism escaped from Tibet at the age of 14 and found a home in India, where he continues to extoll his Buddhist wisdom to the world.
DOMESTIC
Marco Rubio’s Faith of Many Colors
by Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/04/13/heres-what-we-know-about-marco-rubios-faith-of-many-colors/
Marco Rubio, who is expected to throw his hat into the presidential race Monday, has also drawn attention for his brief time in Mormonism, his baptism into the Roman Catholic Church, and his ties to an evangelical church.
We Will Stop Boko Haram
by Muhammadu Buhari
New York Times op-ed
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/opinion/muhammadu-buhari-we-will-stop-boko-haram.html?ref=opinion
Boko Haram feeds off despair. It feeds off a lack of hope that things can improve. It is our intention to show Boko Haram that it will not succeed.
The Right to Speak Out in India
New York Times editorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/opinion/the-right-to-speak-out-in-india.html?ref=opinion
The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not the first to conjure the threat of the meddling “foreign hand” or to silence citizens protesting development projects. But his government has taken this to an alarming new level.
After Attack and Backlash, Kenya Faces Battle to Win Over Muslims
by Edith Honan and Drazen Jorgic
Reuters
http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2015/04/13/after-attack-and-backlash-kenya-faces-battle-to-win-over-muslims/
Days after Islamists killed 148 people at Garissa university, Kenya’s president held out an olive branch to Muslims and urged them to join Nairobi in the struggle against militant Islam by informing on sympathizers.
The Century of Genocide
National editorial
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/editorial/the-century-of-genocide
The 2006 UN Security Council resolution, which compels the international community to intervene if a genocide is occurring, was both an acknowledgement of the brutal legacy of the 20th century and a way to make the 21st the one when genocides were consigned to history.
His Holiness the 17th Karmapa on Tibet, China, and Happiness
by Kira Brekke
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/13/holiness-the-17th-karmapa_n_7057622.html
The spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism escaped from Tibet at the age of 14 and found a home in India, where he continues to extoll his Buddhist wisdom to the world.
DOMESTIC
Marco Rubio’s Faith of Many Colors
by Sarah Pulliam Bailey
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/04/13/heres-what-we-know-about-marco-rubios-faith-of-many-colors/
Marco Rubio, who is expected to throw his hat into the presidential race Monday, has also drawn attention for his brief time in Mormonism, his baptism into the Roman Catholic Church, and his ties to an evangelical church.
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