Tag: alarmed

  • Civil rights groups alarmed over Quebec’s move to ban prayer in public

    Civil rights groups alarmed over Quebec’s move to ban prayer in public

    Announcement follows statements from Quebec premier, who expressed frustration over public prayers in Montreal Quebec says it will ban prayer in public, a move that civil rights groups described as an “alarming measure” that targets religious minority groups and would infringe on “basic democratic freedoms”. The province’s secularism minister, Jean-François Roberge, said the move had…

  • Alarmed by Trump’s Gaza Plan, Arab Leaders Brainstorm on Their Own

    Alarmed by Trump’s Gaza Plan, Arab Leaders Brainstorm on Their Own

    Middle East Tensions Since President Trump suggested depopulating Gaza, Arab officials have offered other ideas for reconstruction. But the emerging consensus repackages old plans as new ones. By Patrick Kingsley and Vivian Yee The journalists, reporting from Jerusalem and Cairo, spoke with diplomats, politicians and analysts briefed on the Arab initiative. After President Trump shocked…