Hindu priest sets date for temple construction at disputed site in India
Source: Reuters BY Krishna N. Das PRAYAGRAJ, India (Reuters) – A powerful Hindu priest said on Wednesday he would lead a group of followers to start building a Hindu temple […]
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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
Marathon church session ends as Dutch let Armenian family stay
Source: Reuters AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A round-the-clock prayer service to stop an Armenian family being deported from the Netherlands was ended after 96 days on Wednesday, after the government agreed […]
Wikileaks takes a swipe at the famously secretive Vatican
Source: The Washington Post By Chico Harlan ROME — WikiLeaks, the tell-anything anti-secrecy organization, on Wednesday took aim at one of the world’s most secretive institutions, the Vatican, releasing a small collection […]
The Persistence of Anti-Semitism
Source: The New York Times By Bret Stephens ANTISEMITISM Here and Now By Deborah E. Lipstadt As recently as the turn of this century, it was just about plausible to […]
What are Muslim prayer rugs?
Source: The Conversation In a recent tweet, President Trump stated that ranchers have been finding prayer rugs scattered along the U.S.-Mexico border. Late last year, he tweeted that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners” […]
A Dearborn Muslim-American reflects on Trump’s travel ban
Source: Detroit Free Press By Rana Elmir On this anniversary of the Muslim ban, I can’t stop thinking about the 5-year-old American boy ensnared by the first iteration of the […]
How to plan your day to get the best out of your brain
Source: BBC News By William Park Our brains are not perfect, smooth-running machines. Our physical responses to the events of the day are not consistent at all times. Intuitively, you […]
Wanting to die at ‘five to midnight’ – before dementia takes over
Source: BBC News By Andrew Bomford Image copyrightBEFORE IT’S TOO LATE It’s not unusual for Dutch patients with dementia to request euthanasia, but in the later stages of the disease […]
Humanics: A way to ‘robot-proof’ your career?
Source: BBC News By Tim McDonald As artificial intelligence becomes both more useful and more widespread, workers everywhere are becoming anxious about how a new age of automation might affect […]
Majority of U.S. Public Supports High-Skilled Immigration
Source: Pew Research Center But U.S. trails other economically advanced nations in share of immigrants with high skills BY PHILLIP CONNOR AND NEIL G. RUIZ Like publics in other economically advanced countries with […]
Greek bishop convicted over comments attacking gays
Source: Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A Greek court has convicted a prominent Orthodox Church official of violating laws against racism and abusing his office over an anti-gay blog […]
Student cracks theologian’s baffling religious code
Source: BBC News A divinity student from the University of St Andrews has cracked a religious code that has baffled academics for generations. Jonny Woods has worked out how to […]
Rampant Child Abuse in Texas’ Churches
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]
Sir Zafrullah Khan Introducing the Holy Quran to the World
Epigraph: “As often as we approach the Quran, it always proves repulsive anew; gradually, however, it attracts, it astonishes, and, in the end forces admiration.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe […]
Pew Research: Religious people are happier through out the world
Religion’s Relationship to Happiness, Civic Engagement and Health Around the World In the U.S. and other countries, participation in a congregation is a key factor People who are active in […]
People in Netherlands are most willing to accept Muslims as members of their family
% in each country who say they would be willing to accept Muslims as members of their family: 🇳🇱Netherlands 88% 🇧🇪Belgium 77% 🇫🇮Finland 66% 🇩🇪Germany 55% 🇵🇱Poland 33% 🇭🇺Hungary 21% […]
Running Scared of the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful?
Epigraph But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little groove […]
Jane Goodall’s GPS interview in full
Source: CNN Fareed Zakaria sits down with Jane Goodall to discuss her extraordinary, lifelong study of chimpanzees, and how it led her to become a leading conservationist. Watch the video […]
In Arab Nation, Christians, Buddhists and Jews Emerge to Worship
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Asa Fitch Jan. 27, 2019 8:00 a.m. ET DUBAI—Every Friday, on the fourth floor of a hotel conference center in this Arab business hub, […]