Candidate: Elections key to countering Afghan conservatism
Source: Associated Press By KATHY GANNON MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan (AP) — Hameeda Danesh was locked away at age 13 and beaten daily for six months by uncles who abhorred the […]
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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
Vatican welcomes Moon with special mass for Korean peace
Source: Yonhap News Agency VATICAN, Oct. 17 (Yonhap) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in attended a special mass for peace on the Korean Peninsula at the Vatican on Wednesday. The […]
Taiwan is set to become the first Asian government to recognize same-sex marriage. Now voters could halt that
Source: Los Angeles Times By RALPH JENNINGS More than a year after a landmark legal ruling cleared the way for Taiwan to become the first place in Asia to recognize same-sex […]
In rare campaign for Cuba, churches advocate against gay marriage
Source: Reuters BY Nelson Acosta, Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban evangelical churches are collecting signatures to petition against a proposed constitutional amendment that would open the door to gay marriage, […]
Brazil presidential candidates woo religious leaders
Source: Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s presidential candidates wooed church leaders Wednesday ahead of a runoff in this deeply religious country with sizable Catholic and evangelical populations. Leading […]
Texas Man, Who Burnt the Victoria Mosque Gets 24-Years Prison Sentence
Source: Victoria Advocate Marq Vincent Perez, the man who burned down Victoria’s only mosque in 2017, was sentenced to an almost maximum sentence of 24.5 years in prison Wednesday morning. […]
My cheating boyfriend gave me HIV – here’s how I got justice
Source: BBC News Diane Reeve didn’t expect to find love again after her 18-year-long marriage fell apart. But in 2002, at the age of 50, she did. It turned out, […]
Recent Chinese dealings with faith groups reflect a pattern of government restrictions on religion
Source: Pew Research Center BY SAMIRAH MAJUMDAR Police patrol as Muslims leave after morning prayers at a mosque in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. (Eisele/AFP/Getty Images) While the Chinese government asserts that it […]
Excavation Of Lithuania’s Great Synagogue Highlights A ‘Painful Page’ From History
Source: NPR For decades, the principals at a boxy, two-story kindergarten in downtown Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, unwittingly pored over their lesson plans just a few feet above one of the […]
Water pollution in Iraq threatens Mandaean religious rites
Source: Associated Press By PHILIP ISSA BAGHDAD (AP) — Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient […]
Chaldean cardinal says promised US aid for Iraq hasn’t come
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and SUSANNAH GEORGE VATICAN CITY (AP) — The head of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church complained on Tuesday that promised U.S. aid for religious minorities […]
Jailed preacher Anjem Choudary faces strict controls after release
Source: The Guardian BY Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent Convicted Isis supporter Anjem Choudary will be in effect banned from any public statements after his release from prison this week, as […]
Bishops calls for urgent action on UK welfare program
Source: Associated Press By DANICA KIRKA LONDON (AP) — Church of England bishops on Tuesday called for urgent action to improve Britain’s new comprehensive welfare program, known as universal credit, […]
U.S. general says conditions for Islamist extremism still linger
Source: Reuters By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States’ top military officer said on Tuesday that little progress had been made in dealing with the underlying conditions that […]
‘Acknowledging reality,’ a splinter church in Kenya ordains married Catholic priests
Source: Religion News Service By Tonny Onyulo NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – At the Renewed Universal Catholic Church in Nyeri, in central Kenya, celebratory ululations filled the air last spring after Bishop […]
‘It’s part of who I am’: proposed Quebec law could push hijab-wearers out of jobs
Source: The Guardian BY Martin Patriquin in Montreal As an elementary school teacher in Montreal, Maha Kassef should be in high demand: the city is in the midst of a […]
Tensions rise at Indian temple over entry of menstrual-age women
Source: Reuters BY Jose Devasia NILAKKAL, India (Reuters) – Tensions rose at an Indian hill temple on Tuesday before an expected face-off between women of menstrual age who can enter […]
The Muslim Sunrise: Prayer and Meditation
Source: The Muslim Sunrise; the longest running Islamic magazine since 1921: Muslim Sunrise Fall 2018 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The word ‘course,’ […]
Pew Research Center’s Video: Being Muslim in the U.S.
This video offers a look inside the beliefs and attitudes of Muslims in America; it features data from Pew Research Center’s 2017 survey, as well as the personal stories of […]
‘There is no God,’ says Stephen Hawking in final book
Epigraph: He is Allah, the Creator, the Maker, the Fashioner. His are the most beautiful names. All that is in the heavens and the earth glorifies Him, and He is […]