While most aid workers hunker down in Kabul compounds, she’s travelled every region of the country, from Jalalabad to Herat making contacts with locals.… Read the rest

They obey, and die.… Read the rest

Some local authorities said community pressure had led families to withdraw complaints.… Read the rest

Between 1,770 and 2,500 children are killed every year in the US.… Read the rest

Over the past 10 years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed by family members, nearly four times the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.… Read the rest

“Doctors, nuns?” she says, almost in horror. “I couldn’t accuse them of lying. This was Franco’s Spain. A dictatorship. Even now we Spaniards tend not to question authority.”… Read the rest

If you have future suggestions for correction or improvement, please help us in updating the article at issue or alert us to the issue.… Read the rest

Vicars express shock-horror.… Read the rest

The movement to end genital cutting is spreading in Senegal at a quickening pace through the very ties of family and ethnicity that used to entrench it.… Read the rest

The county prosecutor, who initially offloaded these cases onto the city government, has said his office will continue to handle these cases, though with less staff.… Read the rest

18 people have been arrested on domestic violence charges since September and released without charges because no agency is accepting new cases.… Read the rest

Worshippers at three churches do not pay to use two public car parks on a Sunday
morning, while shoppers do.… Read the rest

Why don’t they just pray for it, instead?… Read the rest

79% agreed and 11% disagreed that religion is a cause of much misery and conflict in the world today.… Read the rest

Our interest in Leo Igwe’s seminars was strong on account of its specific subject: rescuing, and defending the rights of, children accused of “witchcraft”.… Read the rest

Religion can’t give up on the hows of the universe, since, from the religious point of view, the hows just are answered in terms of whys.… Read the rest

‘In a 115-page book titled “Islamic Sex, Fighting Jews to Return  Islamic Sex to the World,” the group calls on Muslim husbands to have sex with  all their wives simultaneously.’… Read the rest

In June the club’s vice-president advised women to behave like a ”first-class whore” while in the company of  their husbands.… Read the rest

All about clothes, shopping, dieting, flirting, and hairstyles. What else do they care about, after all?… Read the rest

“We don’t have people of that belief here and if we do they’re not going to raise that kind of ruckus for the rest of the town.” Gee I wonder why.… Read the rest