With his fuchsia skullcap and sash, Catholic Bishop Thomas Dowd stood out in the crowd at Shaare Zedek Congregation on Sunday.

With his fuchsia skullcap and sash, Catholic Bishop Thomas Dowd stood out in the crowd at Shaare Zedek Congregation on Sunday.
The police have identified 24 persons who were involved in yesterday’s (January 13) attack on a Christian place of worship in Hikkaduwa including eight Buddhist monks.
Geller is telling her fellow anti-Muslim activists to convince Congress to reject a resolution “urging the Government of Burma to end the persecution of the Rohingya people.”
The Buddhist extremist movement in Myanmar, known as 969, receives official backing.
The Dalai Lama urges Burmese monks to think of the face of the Buddha and turn away from violence.
Hundreds of homes, shops and mosques have been destroyed in most recent violence.
Shop owners warned to “close their shops by March 31 or face death.”
Bodu Bala Sena held a protest rally Sunday at Maharagama telling business owners to remove halal certified food from their stores.
The largest Muslim area in the Burmese city of Sittwe was razed to the ground in recent communal violence, a UK broadcaster has reported.
Richard Batholomew revisits the contrived case of Fathima Rifqa Bary, and finds “pseudo-expert” Robert Spencer’s analysis to be “somewhat baffling.”