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Heartfelt prayers for Myanmar The Zomi Catholic community at St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Southeast Portland brings together faith leaders for prayers “We are all brothers and sisters in humanity,” Bishop Peter Smith tells the crowd. “None are free until all are free.” (Kristen Hannum/Catholic Sentinel) select Posters at the prayer service include images of Sr. Ann Rose Nu Tawng, a Catholic nun who begged the police and soldiers to shoot her instead of the people protesting. She has become an icon of peaceful resistance in Myanmar...

Vanguard News Kwara Hijab Controversy: Christian leaders abort school resumption On By Demola Akinyemi – Ilorin Contrary to the directive and expectations of Kwara state government, that the ten affected schools be reopened, violence marred the exercise as the Christians and Muslims in one of the affected schools engaged themselves in a war of words and eventually threw stones at each other over the resumption of students. Vanguard reliably gathered that despite series of interface by the state government with the Christian leaders, which include the offer by the government that the school...

While the students lament their plight and concerns regarding their inability to pursue their education through no fault of theirs, their teachers, religious leaders and the government are entangled in the argument over the use of the hijab in grant-aided schools that are affiliated to Christians in the state. The genesis of the crisis The hijab conundrum between the Muslims and the Christians which began in 2013 has defied the intervention of the immediate past administration in the state and is presently giving the incumbent some headaches. From 2013, the case which had gone to the lower co...

After announcing the postponement of their resumption date indefinitely in the wee hours of yesterday over irreconcilable differences on the wearing of Hijab, Kwara State government has deployed security operatives to the 10 public/grant-aided missions schools in Ilorin, the state capital.

By Hammed Shittu There is no doubt that the current impasse in Kwara – with the sobriquet State of Harmony – over the order of the state government to all public schools, including schools founded by Christian missions in the state, to allow female Muslim students wear Hijab to school, has heightened tension among stakeholders in the two leading religions – Islam and Christianity.   The hijab controversy, according to THISDAY checks, may not only inhibit peaceful co-existence and affect academic performance of the students who are currently at home due to the decision of the state gove...