Source: Reuters By Teis Jensen | COPENHAGEN Denmark on Tuesday banned five Islamic clerics and an American evangelical Christian pastor from entering the country, calling them “hate preachers” who posed […]
Source: Associated Press By SAM McNEIL and OMAR AKOUR AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The head of the Anglican Church met with Iraqi refugees Tuesday during a visit to Jordan in […]
Source: PRI The communists who took the reins in China in 1949 viewed religion as backward and superstitious. Authorities did their best to wipe out religious life. And by the […]
Source: Reuters By Wa Lone | YANGON A Myanmar Buddhist monk renowned for his anti-Muslim sermons travelled to Rakhine State on Wednesday, an official said, sparking concern over religious tension […]
Source: The Economist The case illustrates the tension between religious freedom and human rights in democracies by P.F. and ERASMUS | VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA Many of today’s hottest arguments about […]
Source: Tonic By Shayla Love Neuroscientists have long been curious about the neural basis of faith. Between 1967 and 1970, neurologist and Korean War veteran William Caveness started an unusual collection. […]
Source: The Guardian Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince has said there is no space for dialogue with the Iran due to its ambitions “to control the Islamic world”. The rare […]
Source: BBC By Anastasia Golubeva BBC Russian Service Image copyrightINSTAGRAM.COM/XCV_CHURCHImage captionChristian Pastor Peresvetov claims religion can cure gay “perversion” Controversial “treatments” by psychotherapists and preachers are being offered to gay people in Russia. BBC Russian heard accounts of so-called cures, after it emerged that gay men were being persecuted in […]
Source: Time BY Alice Park People in the U.S. and beyond are living longer thanks to better health care, but gaps between whites and other groups, including African-Americans, persist, according to […]
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. With the advent of CRISPR, a new way to edit DNA, the field of genomic technology has never been […]
Epigraph: And thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants […]
Source: Religion News Service By Steve Pinkerton, who is a lecturer in English at Case Western Reserve University. This article was originally published on The Conversation (The Conversation) Recent weeks have brought renewed attention to […]
Source: CNN When President Donald Trump revealed that he doesn’t know why the Civil War was fought, or at least figures it could have been averted by the kind of deal-making he supposedly excels at, it was revealing in ways beyond the ones easy to glean. The ignorance is, as usual, […]
By Aysha Khan and Lauren Markoe Al-Sharif Nassef, far right, a participant in the third annual Muslim Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill, takes an elevator to an appointment on May […]
Reuters International MAY 2, 2017 Immigrants are escorted by German police to a registration centre, after crossing the Austrian-German border in Wegscheid near Passau, Germany, October 20, 2015. REUTERS/Michael Dalder/File Photo (reuters_tickers) BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s interior minister has caused a furore five months before an election for saying migrants […]
By swissinfo.ch FEB 15, 2016 (Keystone) Anyone can apply for asylum – protection from persecution – in Switzerland, but applicants must prove or at least credibly demonstrate their refugee […]
MAY 2, 2017 – The intelligence service, headquartered in Bern, released the new category and figures as part of its annual report. (Keystone) Switzerland’s intelligence service has created a new category for identifying and describing the estimated 90 individuals who could have connections to terrorist activity. The new “at risk” […]
By Ryan Browne, CNN Updated 1810 GMT (0210 HKT) May 2, 2017 Story highlights The number of fighters in Kony’s forces have dropped from nearly 2,000 to under 100 Outside […]
BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 5/2/17 What Are Gravitational Waves? Updated | Many have dreamed of figuring out how to travel in time—and dismissed it as impossible. Now, researchers have proposed a mathematical model that makes time travel possible, using concepts of Einstein’s theory of general relativity coupled with the hypothesis that […]
Democracy – Justice: How are they related? by Hakan Erten INTRODUCTION Welcome to democracy-justice.com, dedicated to explaining the relationship between democracy and justice, based on two specific […]