The advantage team sports has over individual exercises
Do This Kind of Exercise If You Want to Live Longer, Study Says Source: Time Experts like to say the best form of exercise is whatever kind you’ll actually do. […]
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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
Search Are flying taxis about to become a reality?
Source: CNN (CNN) — The prospect of a flying taxi that lifts you over the traffic and speeds you to your destination is an enticing one — but are we any […]
Teens Are Over Face-to-Face Communication, Study Says
Source: Time By KATY STEINMETZ September 10, 2018 When Common Sense surveyed roughly a thousand teenagers about their habits back in 2012, most of them said that their favorite way to […]
Florence is expected to be an extremely dangerous major hurricane through landfall
Hurricane Florence Expected to Strengthen as It Barrels Toward North Carolina Coast Source: Time By CIARA NUGENT, ALIX LANGONE, and GINA MARTINEZ Hurricane Florence is tracking farther north and is expected to gain […]
Russian Cosmonaut Allays Concern About Hole in International Space Station
Source: Time By ASSOCIATED PRESS September 10, 2018 (MOSCOW) — A Russian crewmember on the International Space Station has recorded a video message to assuage concerns about an air leak on the orbiting outpost. In the video released Monday by Russian space agency Roscosmos, Sergei Prokopyev explained how the crew last […]
A Bishop Says The Church Will Cooperate With Vermont Investigators After BuzzFeed News’ Investigation Of Abuse At A Catholic Orphanage
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Talal Ansari The Diocese of Burlington will cooperate fully with authorities looking into allegations of abuse at the St. Joseph’s Orphanage, Bishop Christopher Coyne said Sunday, […]
Catholic clergyman calls on Wuerl to resign, says he’ll refuse to participate in Mass with him
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer September 10 at 2:37 PM A highly visible member of Washington’s Catholic clergy has made a dramatic declaration calling on Cardinal Donald Wuerl to resign, […]
NY attorney general subpoenas state’s Catholic dioceses in connection with sex abuse investigation
Source: CNN By Mark Morales and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN)The New York attorney general has issued civil subpoenas for all eight Catholic dioceses in the state as part of a civil […]
Every Ray of Light Gives Us Eternal Hope in God’s Providence
Epigraph: Eyes cannot reach Him but He (Allah) reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware. (Al Quran 6:103/104) Allah is the Light of the heavens and the […]
Urdu Video: Altaf Hussain of MQM Speaks for Interfaith Tolerance and Secularism in Pakistan
Altaf Hussain (Urdu: الطاف حسین; pronounced [əlt̪aːf ɦʊseːn]; born 17 September 1953 in Karachi) is a politician from Pakistan and the founder of party MQM.[1] Since 2015, he has been […]
Saving the Muslims From Exorcisms and Jinns
Epigraph: And remember the day, when Allah will gather them all together; then He will say to the angels: ‘Was it you that they worshiped?’ They will say, ‘Holy are […]
Virgin Mary With Turquoise Hair? Church Statues Get an Eye-Popping Paint Job
Source: The New York Times By Raphael Minder MADRID — St. Anne, the patron saint of the village of Rañadorio in northwestern Spain, has fuchsia lips, black eyeliner and a […]
43 suspects in deadly Philippine bombings face criminal raps
Source: Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Criminal complaints have been filed against 43 Muslim militants from two armed groups linked to the Islamic State group for two bomb attacks […]
Hailing from the strictest ultra orthodox Jewish community Sabiner aspires to become a doctor
‘I want to be a doctor, not a rabbi’: how Israeli ultra-Orthodox are being drawn into work Source: The Guardian From the age of three, Yehuda Sabiner harboured a secret […]
Jewish group in Germany condemns ‘strongly rooted’ extremism
Source: Associated Press By DAVID RISING BERLIN (AP) — An attack on a kosher restaurant by masked neo-Nazis on the sidelines of an anti-migrant protest in an eastern German city […]
Coptic abbot’s murder points to strains over ecumenism in Egypt
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter CAIRO – The Coptic Orthodox community in Egypt is reeling from the recent murder of the abbot of St. Macarius Monastery, apparently by traditionalists […]
Indian Catholic nuns protest against bishop accused of rape
Source: The Guardian BY Michael Safi Indian Catholic sisters have broken ranks with the church by openly protesting in the streets of the Keralan state capital against a bishop accused […]
Pope Francis advises new Bishops to reject all forms of abuse
Pope tells bishops to fight abuse, culture behind it Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis told newly ordained bishops Saturday that they must reject […]
Muslim minority in China’s Xinjiang face ‘political indoctrination’: Human Rights Watch
Source: Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – The Turkic mostly Muslim Uighur minority in China’s Xinjiang region face arbitrary detentions, daily restrictions on religious practice and “forced political indoctrination” in a mass […]
Crackdown on churches by China’s Atheist Communist Party
Group: Officials destroying crosses, burning bibles in China Source: Associated Press By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN BEIJING (AP) — China’s government is ratcheting up a crackdown on Christian congregations in Beijing and […]