Jews, evangelicals reach out to Sunni Gulf Arab leaders
Source: Associated Press By AYA BATRAWY ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Against the backdrop of the first papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula is an interfaith conference that […]
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Zia H Shah
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
Al-Azhar’s Imam calls on Muslims in the Middle East to ’embrace’ Christians
Source: Reuters ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar mosque and university, called on Muslims in the Middle East to “embrace” local Christian communities. […]
Five things to know about religious freedom in the United Arab Emirates
Source: The Washington Post By Tamer El-Ghobashy In the first visit by a sitting pope to the Arabian Peninsula, Pope Francis delivered on Tuesday a Mass for an estimated 180,000 people […]
Bible reading in public schools has been a divisive issue – and this old culture war is starting again
Source: The Conversation Officials in six states, including populous ones such as Virginia and Florida, are considering bills permitting the study of the Bible in classrooms. Proponents of these bills insist that the Bible […]
‘I Had No Options’: The Rohingya Man Who Smuggled Himself
Source: The Atlantic By TIMOTHY MCLAUGHLIN The reporting for this article was supported by The Masthead, The Atlantic’s membership program. Learn more. YANGON, Myanmar—By Kamal’s own admission, his family used to be […]
Franklin Graham Comes Up With A Brazen New Way To Excuse 8,000+ Trump Lies
Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza The evangelical leader refuses to even admit that the president has lied. President Donald Trump has made more than 8,000 “false or misleading claims” […]
For millennials, cancers fueled by obesity are on rise, study says
Source: CNN By Sandee LaMotte, CNN (CNN)Cancers fueled by obesity are on the rise among young adults in the United States and appearing at increasingly younger ages, according to an analysis […]
Nepal woman suffocates in banned ‘menstruation hut’
Source: BBC News A 21-year-old Nepali woman died of suffocation in a windowless “menstruation hut” after she lit a fire to keep warm, say police. Parwati Bogati was found when […]
From Celebrated to Vilified, House’s Muslim Women Absorb Blows Over Israel
Source: The New York Times By Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON — Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota were hailed as symbols of diversity when they were […]
What Science Can Learn From Religion
Source: The New York Times By David DeSteno, professor of psychology at Northeastern University, is the author of “Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride.” Hostility toward spiritual […]
Video: 15 Amazing Facts about the American Muslims
Suggested reading Thomas Jefferson and Islam as an American Religion We hold these Truths to be Self-Evident Also: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Inscriptions Book Review: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders 5 Facts […]
Virginia Governor Apologizes for ‘Racist and Offensive’ Costume in 1984 Yearbook
Source: Time By ALAN SUDERMAN / AP (RICHMOND, Va.) — Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s page in his 1984 medical school yearbook contains a photo of a person in blackface and another […]
In a quiet French village, a cleric plotted Iran’s revolution
Source: Reuters BY Michaela Cabrera NEAUPHLE-LE-CHATEAU, France (Reuters) – Forty years ago this month, the man who would go on to lead the Islamic revolution in Iran lived in a […]
Pope wants ‘new page in history’ on first trip to Arabian peninsula
Source: Reuters BY Philip Pullella, Sylvia Westall VATICAN CITY/ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Pope Francis is hoping to persuade a country enmeshed in a regional war that he has condemned to give […]
Cuban evangelicals push back against gay marriage
Source: Associated Press By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ HAVANA (AP) — A Cuban government push to legalize gay marriage has set off an unprecedented reaction from the island’s rapidly growing evangelical churches, […]
School defends LGBT lessons after religious parents complain
Source: The Guardian BY Nazia Parveen North of England correspondent The assistant headteacher of a school teaching children about homosexuality as part of a special programme has defended its decision after […]
Russian leader assails Ukraine Orthodox church reform
Source: Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin has criticized Ukraine’s move to set up a new Orthodox church independent from Moscow and promised to defend religious freedom. Earlier […]
N. Korean Christians keep faith underground amid crackdowns
Source: Associated Press By HYUNG-JIN KIM SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — One North Korean defector in Seoul describes her family back home quietly singing Christian hymns every Sunday while someone […]
A Jewish Republican called Ilhan Omar anti-Semitic. She suggested he’s Islamophobic. Then came a voice mail.
Source: The Washington Post By Meagan Flynn Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), who is Jewish, received a voice mail on Thursday that he wanted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who is Muslim, […]
Lecture: Noah’s Ark, Christian Creationist theories and Evolution: Dogmatism and Fundamentalism
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The short 10-12 minute talk is within the first 22 minutes of the video, from minute 10 to 22, after the […]