Audio: Be the Miracle for Someone Today
Suggested Reading Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran A Message of Compassion and Love from the Holy Bible True Fasting: A Message of Compassion and Love from […]
Arab Slave Trade
Slavery December 10, 2016 Alik Shahadah The History of Arab Slavery in Africa Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those […]
World’s first ocean plastic-cleaning machine set to tackle Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Pioneering effort to collect debris that kills wildlife about to begin after teenager made his dream come true Jane Dalton @JournoJane Scientists are preparing to launch the world’s first machine to clean up […]
Home Office agencies at heart of Windrush scandal rife with discrimination and harassment, employees say
Exclusive: MPs demand independent review amid claims ‘deeply alarming’ findings cast doubts over organisations’ ability to handle immigration cases Benjamin Kentish Political Correspondent @BenKentish The government immigration agencies at the […]
Opposition to interfaith marriage in India puts many couples at risk
Source: Religion News Service By Bhavya Dore | April 20, 2018 Hadiya, right, converted to Islam to marry Shafin Jahan. Their marriage has been the center of a large court case and referred […]
Iran police’s assault on woman over headscarf stirs debate
Source: Associated Press By NASSER KARIMI and MOHAMMAD NASIRI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A grainy video of female officers from Iran’s morality police assaulting a young woman whose headscarf only […]
Afghanistan: Kabul voter centre suicide attack kills 57
Source: BBC News A suicide bomb attack at a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least 57 people, officials say. The dead include 21 women and five children, killed when the blast hit the queue outside. A further 119 people were injured. The Islamic State […]
The world’s most powerful MRI machine
Source: BBC News Nikola Tesla’s last name isn’t just a car brand. Tesla is also the metric for the magnetic strength of MRI machines. Whereas historically powerful MRI machines have registered around 7-10 tesla, a new generation of machines are breaking the mold and registering up to 11.7 Tesla. Along […]
The words that change what colors we see
Source: BBC News By Aina Casaponsa and Panos Athanasopoulos, Lancaster University From The Conversation 23 April 2018 The human eye can physically perceive millions of colours. But we don’t all recognise these colours in the same way. Some people can’t see differences in colours – so called colour blindness – due to a […]
Are these evangelicals ready to topple the idol of politics?
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Gerson Opinion writer April 19 Email the author If the stages of a social movement are emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization and decline, the reaction against the Trump evangelicals among […]
What is Hell?
Source: The Conversation The recent dispute over whether Pope Francis denied the existence of hell in an interview attracted wide attention. This isn’t surprising, since the belief in an afterlife, where the virtuous are rewarded with a place in heaven and the wicked are punished in hell, is a core teaching […]
5 faith facts about Mike Pompeo: A divisive devotion
Source: RNS By Jack Jenkins | April 19, 2018 CIA Director Mike Pompeo, nominated to be the next secretary of state, pauses while speaking during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on April 12, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pompeo’s remarks were the first chance for lawmakers and the public to […]
Mormonism’s Global Future
Source: The Wall Street Journal By John G. Turner It took a long time for a quintessentially American church to go global. In April 1853 Hosea Stout and two other Mormon missionaries stepped off a boat in Hong Kong. They expected immediate success: Their church’s apostles had promised they […]
No Handshake, No Citizenship, French Court Tells Algerian Woman
Source: New York Times By Aurelien Breeden PARIS — An Algerian woman’s refusal to shake hands with male officials at a French naturalization ceremony is sufficient grounds for denying her […]
An Ancient Curse Kept Nigerian Women Bound to Sex Slavery. Now, It’s Been Reversed
Source: Time By Aryn Baker | Photographs by Lynsey Addario for TIME After spending 15 months in captivity in a run-down brothel in the Italian city of Torino, Wealth finally saw her chance to escape. The 23-year-old Nigerian had scraped together nearly 50 euros in tips from a couple of regulars and […]
What India owes to its first PM Nehru
Parvez Hoodbhoy, Lahore PANDIT Jawaharlal Nehru would never have won a popularity contest in Pakistan quite simply because he did his best to oppose our country’s creation. But nowhere is he reviled more than in India’s current ruling circles and among those whose loyalty they command. The accusations against Nehru […]
Breathtaking library opens in Qatar
Source: CNN With today’s digital reading habits, it’d be easy to assume that libraries are on the verge of becoming redundant. But as a new wave of these buildings open around the world, the humble library is reinventing itself as an establishment for the modern age. In Doha, the Qatar […]
It’s a boy!
Source: CT Cookies’ favourites for boys’ names are Arthur, Philip and Albert. All are highly traditional royal names and it is thought the couple will not opt for a more modern option reflecting the Middleton side of the family. The boy will share a birthday with St George’s Day. The […]
Islam on Stornoway: Why the church should support Muslims’ right to build mosques
Source: CT ecently it was announced that the first mosque is about to be built on the Western Isles – a bastion of conservative evangelical Calvinism, dominated by the Free Church of Scotland (colloquially and somewhat pejoratively known as ‘the Wee Frees’). The press sniffed blood – surely this would […]
‘Self-care’: Demonic indulgence or a godly discipline?
Source: CT A study recently shared by Barna reveals the ‘self-care’ habits of Americans who consider themselves Christian or simply ‘spiritual’. What should one make of its findings, and is ‘self-care’ a dangerous enterprise of self-indulgence, or a vital discipline for a healthy church? Research found that time in nature is […]