New America Media: Religion

In Thailand, Elephant Sashimi is All the Rage

New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Jan 30, 2012

A growing taste for elephant meat in Thailand adds to the growing list of endangered animals winding up on people's plates.

Muslim Americans to NYPD: Enough Already, the Commish Must Go

Colorlines, News Report, Posted: Jan 28, 2012

On Tuesday the New York Times reported that the New York Police Department showed nearly 1,500 of its officers “The Third Jihad,” a 72-minute documentary that casts Muslim Americans as ubiquitously engaged in “a strategy to infiltrate and dominate America.” It was the latest item in a growing list of revelations about the NYPD’s profiling and surveillance of Muslim Americans, and now it has prompted demands that the police commissioner, one of the city’s most powerful public figures, immediately step down.

Royce Challenges Obama Administration on Vietnam Human Rights

New America Media, News Report, Posted: Jan 14, 2012

Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) joined several members of Congress, including the Chairman and top Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in writing to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging the State Department to substantially improve its annual human rights reporting on Vietnam.

Catholics Stunned by News of Bishop Fathering Two Sons

Eastern Group Publications, News Report, Posted: Jan 11, 2012

It's been three decades since Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala, 60, led mass and religious functions at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in East Los Angeles, but his recent resignation and admission that he fathered two sons now living out of state has shocked faithful parishioners.

Pakistan Has Always Been a Negative Identity: Aatish Taseer

New America Media, Question & Answer, Sandip Roy, Posted: Jan 11, 2012

Noon is a novel but in Aatish Taseer’s work, the lines between fiction and non-fiction, novel and memoir can appear blurry.

Rediscovering the Joy of Quiet: Thank You, Pico Iyer

First Post, Commentary, Sandip Roy, Posted: Jan 07, 2012

We live in a world these days where happiness is really about happen-iness. Ask not for whom the Blackberry pings, it pings for thee.

Russia's Ban on Bhagavad Gita Incenses Indians

New America Media, News Analysis, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Dec 21, 2011

The Russian archbishop who tried to malign Lord Krishna and the Indian sacred text, the Bhagavad Gita, should have known that hell hath no fury like 885 million Hindus scorned.

Hispanic Bishops Give Hope to Millions of Immigrants in U.S.

Univision, News Report, Posted: Dec 15, 2011

Latino Catholic bishops wrote a public letter Monday telling undocumented immigrants they are not alone.

Sikhs Shocked by Unprovoked Fresno Attack

New America Media, News Report, Jaskaran Singh, Posted: Dec 09, 2011

A bloody attack on a 56-year-old Sikh preacher in the city of Fresno last week has rattled the local Sikh community.

Vietnam: Authorities Launch Violent Attack on Catholic Crowd

Vietcatholic, News Report, Posted: Dec 06, 2011

Hundreds of priests and parishioners were attacked by a large contingient of police and militiamen this morning (Friday) in the capital of Hanoi after they submitted a petition appealing for the authorities not to build a sewage treatment plant on church land.