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Global Plus: Can the Catholic Church Change? Pope Francis and the long, winding road to revitalizing a troubled…
This latest Global Plus column comes from the journalist with the closest, ongoing access to Pope Francis: Sergio Rubin…
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Global Plus: Knowing your neighbor’s faith is path toward peace and understanding
IARJ's Co-Managing Director Larbi Megari—who was also named the IARJ's representative for North Africa and Middle East in 2018—reports in the Global…
Global Plus—Baring souls: How modest fashion is upending anti-Islamic bias and empowering woman of all faiths
Reina Lewis examines changing styles and expectations about Muslim women's fashions. Reina is Artscom Centenary Professor of…
Breaking good: Scholars discuss how religion and science can work together
What happens when well-known speakers are brought together to fill an auditorium to discuss the compatibility of religion and science? Too often a circus in which…
Global Plus: Breaking barriers, increasing understanding, one joke at a time
Lina Molokotos-Liederman, a researcher in sociology of religion in London, writes about the many connections between humor and religion. All of us feel…
IARJ@Work: IARJ board member advises on challenges in coverage of migration at European interreligious conference
IARJ European board member María-Paz López takes us inside a conference exploring the role journalists can play in…
Global Plus: Hindu nationalists use sacred animal to maintain power, demonize minorities
A Global Plus report on the use of cows as religious symbols by Hindu extremists to pursue their nationalist cause, sometimes with violence as a…
Religious freedom and civility are at heart of struggle for democracy in Asia
In this news-analysis, IARJ co-founder David Briggs explores the crucial issue of Islam and democracy—the global debate over whether these two traditions, one…
IARJ@Work: 2018 Fellows Describe Hopes for Interreligious Dialogue
IARJ member Bhavya Srivastava, a journalist from India, is a 2018 KAICIID Fellow. He writes about the hopes for peacemaking among his colleagues in a recent training…
IARJ@Work: Top IARJ journalists share reporting ideas in international seminar
Two of IARJ's most active members, Executive Director Endy Bayuni from Indonesia and Waqar Gillani from Pakistan, met with journalists from the tiny Asian nation…