“Cardinals Pick Bergoglio, Who Will Be Pope Francis”
Read a March 13, 2013, New York Times article on the breaking-news account of Pope Francis’ election.
Region: Global
World Jewish Congress
The World Jewish Congress is the international organization that represents Jewish communities and organizations in 100 countries around the world. It advocates on their behalf towards governments, parliaments, international organizations and other faiths.
World Union for Progressive Judaism
The World Union for Progressive Judaism is the international umbrella organization of the Reform, Liberal, Progressive and Reconstructionist movements, serving 1,200 congregations with 1.8 million members in more than 45 countries.
“Jews are world’s most migratory religious group”
A March 8, 2012, Religion News Service article describes a study from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life that found that Jews are the world’s most migratory group.
“Why are religion and violence now so closely linked?”
Andrew Brown of The Guardian has an April 25 column exploring why some violent organizations feed off religion and others are atheistic.
“After Eden”
Read a May 20, 2013, America magazine review of a new book, God’s Reign & the End of Empires, that addresses theology from a “liberationist” perspective.
“The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society”
A survey released April 30, 2013, by the Pew Research Center explores the views of Muslims in 39 countries regarding Shariah.
Jan Michiel Otto
Jan Michiel Otto is professor of law and governance in developing countries and director of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He is an expert on Shariah and edited the book Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries […]
