Tuam Mother and Baby Home Remains Will Be Exhumed, Ireland Says
Source: The New York Times By Ed O’Loughlin The grounds of the old mother and baby home in Tuam, Ireland.CreditCreditPaulo Nunes dos Santos for The New York Times DUBLIN — […]
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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
In Brazil’s poor northeast, right-winger makes inroads
Source: Reuters By Nacho Doce BARREIRINHAS, Brazil (Reuters) – The home of Crenilton Santos Ferreira and his wife, Claudia Adriana, sits at the end of a sandy path in the […]
Indian activists smolder over “green” Diwali firecrackers
Source: Reuters By Neha Dasgupta NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the use of “green” firecrackers for Diwali next month to try to curb pollution, but […]
Polygamy persists across Africa, to activists’ dismay
Source: Associated Press By RODNEY MUHUMUZA KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The suspicion of a third wife was planted in Irene Atenyo’s mind when her husband could not account for his […]
Islamic robo-adviser to expand in Gulf, Southeast Asia by 2019
Source: Reuters BY Bernardo Vizcaino (Reuters) – New York-based Wahed Invest plans to offer its automated investment service in the Middle East and Southeast Asia by early next year, […]
India’s Assam shuts down over plans to amend citizenship law
Source: Al Jazeera The government plans to make it easier for Hindus, Buddhists and Christians to get citizenship while excluding Muslims. by Zeenat Saberin & Abdul Gani Critics say […]
The Trump Administration Wants to Define a Person’s Sex at Birth. It’s Just Not That Simple
Source: Time By Elizabeth Reis, who is a professor of gender and bioethics at the Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York and the author of Bodies in Doubt: An […]
How Hunger Fuels Crime and Violence in Venezuela
Source: Time By Ciara Nugent | Photographs by Ignacio Marin October 23, 2018 Desperate people in Venezuela don’t rob stores or banks. There would be no point; cash machines have been mostly […]
US white nationalist Richard Spencer’s wife says he abused her
Source: BBC News The wife of US white nationalist Richard Spencer has accused him of being “physically, verbally and emotionally abusive”, US media report. In papers filing for divorce, Nina […]
Meghan’s message of female empowerment in Fiji
Source: BBC News Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is touring Fiji with Prince Harry. In her maiden speech on the tour, she spoke about how important it is for women to […]
Ghamidi’s Urdu Interview: Rationality Versus Orthodoxy in Islam?
Suggested reading Do Muslims Prefer Camels Over Modern Cars? Reason or Orthodoxy: Which One Should Rule? The Holy Quran and the Seventh Century Arabian Metaphors Is God Alive or Dead: A Metaphor for […]
Buddhism: My prayer experience
Source: The Muslim Sunrise; the longest running Islamic magazine since 1921: Muslim Sunrise Fall 2018 By Fazal Masood Malik On a warm Sunday afternoon, warm enough to be lazy, I sat […]
The Vatican Debating to Open Priesthood to Married Men
The Vatican is laying the groundwork to open formal debate on opening up the priesthood to married men in parts of the world where clergy are scarce. https://t.co/vSY6z57l6V — Religion News Service (@RNS) October 23, 2018 Suggested Reading for the best understanding of personal religion in the 21st century Deciding […]
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Gazing monkeys image wins
Source: BBC By Jonathan Amos; BBC Science Correspondent Two snub-nosed monkeys are pictured resting on a stone and staring intently into the distance. What are they looking at, and what are […]
Documentaries about the Nobel Laureate: Dr. Abdus Salam
Mohammad Abdus Salam[4][5][6] NI, SPk, KBE (/sæˈlæm/; Punjabi, Urdu: عبد السلام, pronounced [əbd̪ʊs səlaːm]; 29 January 1926 – 21 November 1996),[7] was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.[8] He was the […]
Thousands of Canada’s indigenous children died in church-run boarding schools. Where are they buried?
Source: The Washington Post By Amanda Coletta TORONTO — Armed with everything from school attendance records to drones, researchers across Canada are racing to shed light on a bleak part of the […]
Mount Athos, a Male-Only Holy Retreat, Is Ruffled by Tourists and Russia
Source: The New York Times By Neil MacFarquhar MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — The skulls, lined up five deep on wooden shelves, date back hundreds of years, with the names of […]
Birth of a new Ukrainian church brings fears of violence
Source: Associated Press By YURAS KARMANAU KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The rough-looking young men brought clubs and brass knuckles to the Pechersk Monastery in Kiev , one of Orthodox Christianity’s most important […]
Row over Muslim scholar’s invitation to preach at Anglican service
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood, Religion correspondent Blog claims sermon by imam at Oxford church contrary to ‘sacred act of divine worship’ in keeping with C of E rites An […]
Coalition airstrike targets mosque used by Islamic State
Source: Associated Press By LOLITA C. BALDOR AL-UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar (AP) — An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group targeted a mosque in Syria last […]