Washington, D.C. — Kim Lawton answers questions about her three-week trip with the Senior Journalists Seminar. She discusses traveling with a group of international journalists, visiting a variety of houses of worship in the U.S., Malaysia and Pakistan, and meeting with religious minorities. More
LAHORE, Pakistan – Kim Lawton looks at Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws which carry the penalty of life in prison or execution. The laws target both dissenting Muslims and religious minorities. More
LAHORE, Pakistan — Kim Lawton looks at the situation of Ahmadis, who are designated non-Muslims in Pakistan and who face what one leader called “egregious and ongoing” persecution. More
LAHORE, Pakistan — Watch excerpts of Mass at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore, the Pakistani city where two churches were attacked by suicide bombers earlier this year. More
KAULA LUMPUR, Malaysia — In Malaysia, non-Muslims have been forbidden to use the word “Allah.” Kim Lawton looks at the debate. More
BATU CAVES, Malaysia — Kim Lawton and the Senior Journalists Seminar tour one of the most popular Hindu shrines outside of India. More
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Kim Lawton and the Senior Journalists Seminar visit a madrasah, or Islamic school, outside of Kuala Lumpur. More
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The Senior Journalists Seminar visited Masjid Jamek Bandaraya, one of the oldest mosques in Kuala Lumpur. More
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Kim Lawton writes about the difficult political realities of obtaining visas for foreign travel, which some of her East-West Center Senior Journalists Seminar colleagues from other countries have experienced first-hand. More
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — One of the most popular pop artists in Malaysia is singer/songwriter Hafiz Hamidun, who specializes in nasheed, a form of devotional Islamic chanting. Our Senior Journalists Seminar group met with him in Kuala Lumpur. More