Edna Tarigan, Author at Religion News Service https://religionnews.com Driving essential conversation about how religion and beliefs shape us and our world. Fri, 06 Sep 2024 20:04:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://religionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Favicon-100x100.png Edna Tarigan, Author at Religion News Service https://religionnews.com 32 32 The pope urges Indonesia to live up to its promise of ‘harmony in diversity’ https://religionnews.com/2024/09/06/the-pope-urges-indonesia-to-live-up-to-its-promise-of-harmony-in-diversity/ https://religionnews.com/2024/09/06/the-pope-urges-indonesia-to-live-up-to-its-promise-of-harmony-in-diversity/#respond Fri, 06 Sep 2024 14:06:51 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4165167&preview=true&preview_id=4165167 JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Pope Francis compared Indonesia's human diversity to the archipelago’s 17,000 islands. He said each one contributes something specific to form “a magnificent mosaic, in which each tile is an irreplaceable element in creating a great original and precious work.”

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]]> https://religionnews.com/2023/04/17/muslims-around-the-world-consider-climate-during-ramadan/feed/ 0 Across vast Muslim world, LGBTQ people remain marginalized https://religionnews.com/2022/12/06/across-vast-muslim-world-lgbtq-people-remain-marginalized/ https://religionnews.com/2022/12/06/across-vast-muslim-world-lgbtq-people-remain-marginalized/#respond Tue, 06 Dec 2022 20:39:04 +0000 https://religionnews.com/?p=4005510&preview=true&preview_id=4005510 YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — LGBTQ people routinely are rejected by their families, denounced by Islamic authorities and limited to clandestine social lives.

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