New America Media: Religion

This Week on New America Now

New America Media, Audio, Shirin Sadeghi, Posted: Mar 25, 2011

Libyan diaspora's helping hand, Asian & Hispanic numbers in US Census surprise, India's Census, Wal-Mart class-action, Iran Film Series, Arabs Gone Wild

This Week on New America Now: Nuclear Disaster, Iranian New Year, and the New Jim Crow

New America Media, Audio, Shirin Sadeghi, Posted: Mar 18, 2011

New America Now covers the nuclear disaster in Japan and its radiation fall-out, Iranian New Year, the new Jim Crow, and a new film about Indian surrogacy.

Norooz: The Iranian New Year

New America Media, Audio, Shirin Sadeghi, Posted: Mar 18, 2011

Iranians, Zoroastrians and Persianate peoples have been celebrating the new year on the first day of spring for millennia.

New America Now: Fighting for Rights, Respect and Safety

New America Now, Audio, Shirin Sadeghi, Posted: Mar 11, 2011

How International Women's Day has changed over the last 100 years and an in-depth look at reporting coverage of the drug wars in Juarez.

What Makes a Muslim-American Radical? America's Own Wars on Muslims

New America Media, Commentary, Behrouz Saba, Posted: Mar 11, 2011

Rep. Peter King's hearings on radicalization in the Muslim-American community ignored Al Qaeda's greatest recruitment tool: the U.S. wars in the Muslim world.

CA Attorney General Moves on Church Scammers

Black Voice News, News Report, Chris Levister, Posted: Mar 04, 2011

The office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris is suing businesses and people who allegedly conned more than 30 African-American churches.

Vietnamese Catholic Priest Risks Being Returned to Prison

Rallying For Democracy, News Report, Posted: Feb 27, 2011

Father Ly was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment in 2007 for spreading "propaganda" against the state. Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience, arrested and convicted for the peaceful dissemination of his views on democracy and human rights.

Groups Oppose Dangerous Anti-Islamic Hearings

The Final Call, News Report, Nisa Islam Muhammad, Posted: Feb 23, 2011

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King's plans to kick-off hearings next month on the “radicalization” of millions of American Muslims is generating significant opposition as civil rights and human rights organizations urge congressional leaders to object to what they consider “divisive” McCarthy-era like activity.

The Truth About Iran's Green Movement

New America Media, Commentary, Shirin Sadeghi, Posted: Feb 20, 2011

The Iranian people don't want the Islamic Republic, no matter what shade it comes in.

Jews in the Philippines? Mazel Tov

Moment Magazine, First Person, Carl Hoffman, Posted: Feb 13, 2011

I was told that I would love the Philippines beyond reason. What I was not told was that I would reconnect with my Jewish roots in what I had imagined to be the least Jewish place on earth.