Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Ramadan — the Muslim holy month, which begins this year on June 6 — is a time of fasting, prayer and community. For some, it has also become a time to shop, when some wealthy families as much as triple […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Fasting during the holy month of Ramadan is meant to be a physical and spiritual challenge for Muslims, something that draws them closer to God. But depending on where they are in the world, some followers of the faith might have an […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Muhammad Ali gave a powerful account of his lifelong search for God The Soul of a Butterfly, an autobiography the boxing legend wrote with his […]
Source: The Guardian BY Haroon Siddique and agency A Church of England vicar has been fined for a drunken brawl with police during which he swore at an officer and claimed to have diplomatic immunity through the Vatican. Gareth Jones punched, kicked, bit and spat at a police officer and paramedic who […]
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health editor, Chicago Cancer is entering a “new era” of personalised medicine with drugs targeted to the specific weaknesses in each patient’s tumour, say doctors. […]
Source: BBC By Priya Shetty Grady Nelson had his life spared by a brain scan. In January 2005, after he was released from a Florida prison, where he had served […]
Source: BBC Pope Francis has approved measures to sack bishops who mishandle child sexual abuse cases, a papal decree says. Bishops who are “negligent” in dealing with priests committing abuse […]
Pakistan Embassy DC, hosted a Peace Keepers Day and recognized some of its brave leaders. (Pictures by Dr. Kashif Chaudry ) PAKISTAN POST, while deeply admirable of Jibran Nasir’s stand against the Blasphemy Law of Pakistan, Pakistan Post disagrees with him that only social activities like he does is the […]
Source.Twitter.com.MKAPakistan. A 64 year old Ahmadi Hameed Ahmad embraced Shahadat. He was shot in the head outside his house in Attock, Punjab, Pakistan. Innahlillahe wa inna elahe rajeoon. Further details emerging
Source: USA Today In 2010, in celebration of Muhammad Ali’s 50 years on the world stage, President Barack Obama penned for USA TODAY Sports the following essay on what Ali […]
Muhammad Ali: Boxing legend, activist and ‘The Greatest’ to a world of fans, Dies By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) His hands and his mouth were furiously fast. His skill as […]
Source: BBC By Ben Dirs BBC Sport It is crass, I know, to reduce Muhammad Ali’s greatness to little more than a game of Top Trumps. And how great, really, […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Amanda Terkel Senior Political Reporter, The Huffington Post As someone who’s Asian-American, all my life I’ve dealt with people who assume that I speak Chinese. The majority of times I get in a cab, one of the first questions from the driver will be, “Where are you […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Yasmin Nouh Blog Editor, The Huffington Post Nura Takkish, 22, was sitting with two of her friends at Andrew’s Ice Cream and Dessert in Orange County, California, on Monday, May 23, when they noticed a commotion at the counter. A customer was being asked to leave for […]
Source: Yahoo News Dhaka (AFP) – Each time he hears of the latest deadly machete attack, Ashraful Islam can’t help but think of his father’s gruesome murder and fear his […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Muslims in the northern hemisphere face the most challenging Ramadan for more than 30 years, with long summer days creating the shortest possible […]
Source: The New York Times By ALAN COWELL LONDON — In these times of flux and challenge, when Britain’s post-imperial place in a globalized world has rarely been so minutely […]
Source: CNN By Ruby Mellen, CNN Washington (CNN)Bill Nye, Lewis Black and members of the Wu-Tang Clan will be part of a high-profile lineup preaching to a mass of atheists […]
theguardian — The Adoration of the Magi by Botticelli (1444/5-1510). ‘The huge decline in western Christianity has a much simpler root cause: the perceived claims of what people see as orthodox belief are, literally, incredible to the modern mind’, writes Fr Alec Mitchell. Photograph: Getty Images Your editorial (Imagine no […]