Magdalen College held an annual banquet to commemorate England’s legendary patron saint before the pandemic, with dons, fellows and students enjoying a traditional feast among its spires. But this year, the college will host a formal dinner for Eid, the Islamic festival marking the end of Ramadan, on St George's Day and no other formal meals or dinners to mark England's patron saint will take place. (Somerville, The Telegraph)
Read MoreThe Israeli police raided the most sensitive holy site in Jerusalem before dawn on Wednesday, detaining scores of Palestinians who had barricaded themselves inside a mosque overnight. Armed groups in the Gaza Strip responded by firing rockets toward Israel, which retaliated with airstrikes on military sites in the territory. (Abdulrahim & Kingsley, The New York Times)
Read MoreA GROUP of ten clerics in the the City deanery of the diocese of London have announced their decision to establish an alternative “deanery chapter”, in protest at the decision to allow church blessings for same-sex couples. (Martin, Church Times)
Read MoreA social game of chance, strategy and a kind of improvisational storytelling, D&D is hugely complex and deeply immersive, demanding of its players an almost scholarly commitment to learning its history, its rules and its mythology — all of it chronicled in a series of exhaustive, encyclopedic official rule books that are the foundation of the game. (Marsh, The New York Times)
Read MoreThe president of Hamline University, who was widely criticized for her response to an art history professor who showed students a painting of the Prophet Muhammad, announced Monday (April 3) she would retire June 30, 2024. The announcement comes more than two months after faculty of the St. Paul, Minnesota, university called on President Fayneese Miller to resign immediately, saying they no longer had faith in her ability to lead the university. (Shimron, Religion News Service)
Read MoreWithout billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilized countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months, the head of the Nobel prize-winning U.N. World Food Program warned Friday. (AP/NPR)
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