India’s lower house OKs end to instant divorce for Muslims
Source: Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — The lower house of India’s Parliament on Thursday approved a bill to implement the Supreme Court’s ruling that found the Muslim practice of […]
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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
SNP MPs call on UK to grant Asia Bibi and her family asylum
Source: The Guardian BY Dan Sabbagh Scottish National party MPs have written to Theresa May calling on the UK to grant asylum to Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi and her family, […]
Hui poet fears for his people as China ‘Sinicizes’ religion
Source: Associated Press By SAM MCNEIL JINAN, China (AP) — Cui Haoxin is too young to remember the days of his people’s oppression under Mao Zedong. The 39-year-old poet was […]
Bomb at Greek church injures 2 after no warning given
Source: Associated Press By DEREK GATOPOULOS and ELENA BECATOROS ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A crudely-made bomb exploded outside one of Athens’ most important churches early Thursday, injuring its caretaker and […]
Taliban seeks image makeover as Afghan peace talks gain momentum
Source: Reuters BY Abdul Qadir Sediqi, Jibran Ahmad KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – As moves toward peace pick up in Afghanistan, the Taliban are trying to show they have changed since the […]
Muslim leaders raise gambling harm awareness
Source: Australasian Muslim Times The Muslim Leaders Forum for Gambling Harm Awareness was held on Wednesday 5 December in Melbourne equipping them with resources to help families experiencing gambling harm. The […]
A fight over Republican leadership in Texas becomes a test of the limits of Muslims in the GOP
Source: Los Angeles Times BY Jaweed Kaleem Muslim Americans will reach a milestone next week when Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar join the House of Representatives. The Democrats from Michigan […]
Americans Trust Clergy Less Than Ever, Gallup Poll Finds
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Americans’ confidence in religious leaders’ honesty and ethical standards has been tanking in recent years. The level of trust Americans have in clergy members […]
With support from Steve Bannon, a medieval monastery could become a populist training ground
Source: The Washington Post By Chico Harlan December 25 COLLEPARDO, Italy — Inside the stone walls of the Trisulti monastery, for more than eight centuries, monks have lived in quiet seclusion, praying, […]
Sister Wendy Beckett, Nun Who Became a BBC Star, Dies at 88
Source: The New York Times By Robert D. McFadden Sister Wendy Beckett, a Roman Catholic nun who interrupted a cloistered life of prayer in England in 1991 and soared to […]
‘It’s God’s plan’: the man who dreams of bringing intensive chicken farming to Africa
Source: The Guardian By John Vidal On the evening of 7 August 2018, a KLM charter flight left Amsterdam, landing 11 hours later at Kilimanjaro airport in northern Tanzania. Its young occupants […]
Battle of the bulge: Thailand strives to bring monk obesity crisis under control
Source: The Guardian BY Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Bangkok Every morning at dawn, the food is dished out to Thailand’s monks in abundance: donations of sticky rice, cakes, noodles, sweet pudding, dumplings, […]
Egypt’s Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas, ponder changing date
Source: Religion News Service EL KOSHEH, Egypt (RNS) — This Coptic Christian village about 280 miles south of Cairo calls itself “Little Jerusalem.” Around this time of year, many of the […]
Jeremy Hunt orders global review into persecution of Christians
Source: The Guardian BY Patrick Wintourand Harriet Sherwood The foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has ordered an independent, global review into the persecution of Christians of all nationalities amid claims that not enough […]
Exclusive: Former papal abuse commissioners want re-evaluation of group
Source: National Catholic Reporter By Joshua J. McElwee ROME — Three former members of Pope Francis’ commission on clergy sexual abuse are calling on the pontiff’s February Vatican summit on child protection […]
Pope Francis’ early blind spot on sex abuse threatens legacy
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — It has been a wretched year for Pope Francis, whose blind spot on clergy sex abuse conspired with events beyond […]
For The Catholic Church, A Year Of Unending Clergy Abuse Revelations
Source: NPR BY VIRGINIA ALVINO YOUNG 2018 has been an explosive year for the Catholic Church, with renewed revelations of clergy sexual abuse and cover up from one coast to […]
Yes, there is a war between science and religion
Source: The Conversation By Jerry Coyne; Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago As the West becomes more and more secular, and the discoveries of evolutionary biology and cosmology […]
Jinn: Do They Exist?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Muslims, generally speaking, believe in the existence of the unseen world, which generally includes besides Allah, angels, […]
Ukraine’s leader orders Orthodox Church to change its name
Source: Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president on Saturday signed a bill that orders the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to change its name to reflect its ties to Moscow. […]