The worldwide refugee crisis is becoming increasingly alarming, with nearly 60 million refugees and displaced people globally, the largest number since [.]
In 2022, no discussion of foreign policy should occur without considering the role of major tech companies. The costs of passivity in coordination are high, and missed opportunities for democracy and human rights promotion abound.
For the owner of two apartment complexes in Northeast Dallas’ Vickery Meadow neighborhood, the issue is religious freedom. He says the city of Dallas targeted him and his tenants with “harassing inspections,” and city employees wanted to rid the property of “religiously motivated organizations and community prayer.”
Religion. Religious faith is central to the lives of billions, a driving force in everything from family structure to relationships within and among the world's nation states. It is also a venue, and often the source, of conflict. Religion presents Pulitzer Center reporting on these themes from throughout the world from the explosive growth of megachurches in Africa and Latin America to intra-Islam schisms of the Middle East, to the self-immolation of Tibetan Buddhist monks and Buddhist soldiers running roughshod over the rights of Burmese Muslims, to the struggles of faith groups everywhere to come to terms with human sexuality. In some parts of the world, governments that long suppressed religious expression are now invoking those traditions as part of the solution to environmental and other challenges even as those same governments launch brutal suppression of religious minorities and other marginalized groups. Elsewhere, from majority-Catholic Philippines to Muslim Indonesia