India

Now, after a landslide electoral triumph Friday by the Bharatiya Janata Party of Hindu nationalists, some Muslims here said they were worried that their place in India could become even more tenuous — For India’s Persecuted Muslim Minority, Caution Follows Hindu Party’s Victory (Gardiner Harris, The New York Times)

L’Inde est à un tournant avec la très probable victoire de Narendra Modi, candidat du parti BJP, la formation nationaliste qui a érigé en programme politique la défense de l’hindouisme, religion de 80% des Indiens — Nationaliste et religieuse, la nouvelle Inde (France-Inter)

Belgique

Polémique en Flandre : la communauté juive en justice contre un décret qui risque de contraindre les enfants des écoles juives à s’inscrire dans des écoles agréées ou étrangères. Un arrêt de la Cour constitutionnelle du 8 mai 2014 confirme le décret pour l’essentiel — Religion et enseignement à domicile (Jancy Nounckele et Louis-Leon Christians, Droit belge & cultes)

Vatican

Exorcism Conference At Vatican Addresses The Need For More Demon-Fighting Priests. On Sunday, the ninth annual "Exorcism and Prayer for Liberation" conference wrapped up at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. It covered the phenomenon of demonic possession as well as the specter of Satanism, both of which are threats that Pope Francis believes are pressing and real (Yasmina Hafiz, Huffington Post)

Science

Major figures like Joan of Arc and Dostoyevsky claimed supernatural visions. Why their brains could hold the answer — Heaven is for neuroscience: How the brain creates visions of God (Sam Kean, Salon)

Web

Pour renflouer ses caisses, les diocèses de la région ont lancé une campagne inédite sur internet en reprenant les codes d'un site de rencontre populaire auprès des jeunes — « Adopteuncuré.com », la campagne de collecte de l'Église en Normandie (Le Figaro)

Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitic Sentiments Are Harbored By One-Fourth Of Global Population, According To ADL Survey. The first-ever global study of anti-Semitic attitudes shows that more than a quarter of the world’s population harbors intense anti-Jewish sentiment, with region, more than religion, shaping people’s view of Jews and Judaism. The poll, released Tuesday (May 13) by the New York-based Anti-Defamation League, also finds that 46 percent have either not heard of the Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews or think it is a myth or exaggerated (Lauren Markoe, Religion News Service/Huffington Post)