He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
Source: Huffington Post By Jose Devasia and Neha Dasgupta Two women defied a centuries-old ban this week and entered the Sabarimala temple in Kerala. Two women defied a centuries-old ban […]
Percentage who say they believe in God with absolute certainty: 🇦🇲 Armenia: 79% 🇬🇪 Georgia: 73 🇧🇦 Bosnia: 66 🇵🇱 Poland: 45 🇵🇹 Portugal: 44 🇸🇰 Slovakia: 37 🇨🇭 Switzerland: […]
Source: Vox Kenya has been an al-Shabaab target for years. It seems like that will continue, even with US-backed military efforts to defeat the terrorists. A bloody, day-long terrorist […]
Source: BBC News By Martha Henriques Let’s say your relationship is on the rocks. You’ve been trying to work things out together in couples’ counselling, but ultimately, you want to […]
Source: BBC News Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto accepted a $100m (£77m) bribe from drug cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a witness has testified. Alex Cifuentes, who says […]
Source: BBC News By Ian Lloyd Neubauer Image copyrightMONARCH CAKE SHOPImage captionPearl Levine opened Monaco Cake Shop, Melbourne’s first Jewish bakery, in 1931 Australia’s largest Jewish community is found in […]
Source: The Guardian The streets of Xi’an’s Muslim quarter are bustling. Tourists from all over China and the rest of the world throng the small stalls and restaurants for delicacies such as yangrou paomo lamb […]
Source: The Guardian BY Sam Jones in Madrid The devil’s attempt to take up residence in the ancient Spanish city of Segovia has been temporarily thwarted by a group of concerned […]
Source: Religion News Service By Doreen Ajiambo WAJIR, Kenya (RNS) — After the militant group al-Shabab killed three of his colleagues in a recent attack on Christian schoolteachers here, Jared Nyanchong’i […]
Source: BBC News Activists in Russia say there has been a new crackdown against LGBT people in Chechnya. The Russian LGBT Network believes about 40 people have been imprisoned since […]
Source: Reuters BY Jose Devasia KOCHI, India (Reuters) – One of two Indian women who entered an ancient Hindu hill temple in southern India this month in defiance of a […]
Source: Associated Press By EMILY SCHMALL PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Thousands of portable toilets line roads constantly swept clean, drinking water flows from newly installed taps, electric substations power a […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Michele Chabin JERUSALEM (RNS) – A work titled “McJesus,” depicting a crucified Ronald McDonald, at an art museum in Haifa has brought angry calls from […]
Source: The New Yorker By Vinson Cunningham When I was a kid of ten or eleven years old, newly returned to New York after a few years living in Chicago, I […]
Source: BBC News Officially the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is now fully independent of Moscow, but many parishes remain loyal to the Russian patriarch – leading in some cases to […]
Source: The Guardian BY Michael Safi in Prayagraj What does the Kumbh Mela celebrate? The Kumbh Mela is held at the four spots along the Ganges river where, Hindu tradition has it, drops […]
Epigraph: And you shall 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 saints […]
Source: Pew Research Center By David Masci The recent decision by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to split from its Russian counterpart after more than 300 years of being linked reflects […]
Source: The New York Times By Matti Friedman; Contributing Opinion Writer JERUSALEM — If you are reading this, you’ve most likely seen much about “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” in the pages […]
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