Why fewer Americans are attending religious services
Source : Religion News Service BY Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) — Fewer adults are attending religious services in the United States, but not necessarily because they don’t believe. Many cite […]
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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
Chinese Surveillance Expands to Muslims Making Mecca Pilgrimage
Source: Wall Street Journal By Eva Dou July 31, 2018 10:01 a.m. ET BEIJING—China’s close watch over its Islamic minority is being extended abroad, as Muslims from some Chinese regions […]
This Woman Says She Breastfed Her Baby At Church, Then Was Punished By Its Leaders
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Jim Dalrymple II BuzzFeed News Reporter Posted on July 31, 2018, at 11:11 p.m. ET George Frey / Getty Images A Mormon woman attending church in […]
Metro can ban all religious ads on buses and trains, court rules
Source: The Washington Post By Ann E. Marimow The Washington region’s transit system can bar religious messages on its buses and trains and in its stations, a federal appeals court ruled […]
Religion: Modernizing the Case for God
Epigraph: Eyes cannot reach Him but He reaches the eyes. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware. (Al Quran 6:103/104) Source: Time Philosophers refurbish the tools of reason to sharpen […]
The Catholic Church Offering Reasons to a Billion to Examine Islam
The Catholic Church has obliterated its ability to inspire trust Source: The Washington Post By Elizabeth Bruenig, who is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post. We live in an era of diminished trust and heightened cynicism. It is hard, now, to imagine someone expressing unqualified faith in government, the […]
Vietnam bridge: Walking through a god’s hands
Source: BBC News Fancy a stroll through a deity’s hands? Vietnam has unveiled its latest tourist attraction: the 150m-long Golden Bridge, perched on a mountaintop near the city of Danang. […]
The Sunk Cost Fallacy Is Ruining Your Decisions. Here’s How
Source: Time By Jamie Ducharme If you’ve ever let unworn clothes clutter your closet just because they were expensive, or followed through on plans you were dreading because you already […]
For many Muslim grocery shoppers, a shifting definition of ‘halal’
Source: The Conversation BY Febe Armanios & Boğaç Ergene For Muslims, halal food follows certain rules proscribed by Islamic law. It usually pertains to ritual slaughter and abstention from […]
ISIS Claims Responsibility For Deadly Attack On Cyclists In Tajikistan
Source: NPR By Scott Neuman Two Americans are among four foreign cyclists killed over the weekend in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan when a car swerved to hit them […]
Islamic State claims southern Philippine blast that killed 11
Source: Reuters BY Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) – A bomb exploded in a van in the restive southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing 11 people at a military checkpoint in what […]
Indonesia Bans Islamic State-Linked Terror Group Behind Child Suicide Bombings
Source: Wall Street Journal By Ben Otto and Anita Rachman JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesia banned the militant group behind Islamic State’s first attack in Southeast Asia and suicide bombings involving children, a […]
‘There’s going to be a raid’: A Chilean prosecutor forces Catholic Church to give up secrets
Source: Reuters BY Aislinn Laing, Cassandra Garrison SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Two special envoys sent by Pope Francis to investigate a child sex abuse scandal in Chile were meeting priests and […]
Vanishing in the Wild, These Salamanders Found Refuge in a Convent
Source: The New York Times By Geoffrey Giller PÁTZCUARO, MEXICO — Atop the highest hill in this lakeside town sits the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Salud, built in […]
Myanmar appoints panel to probe Rohingya abuses
Source: Reuters YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar has established a commission of inquiry to probe allegations of human rights abuses in conflict-torn Rakhine state, authorities said on Monday, as the country […]
AP Interview: Israel’s Herzog vows to bridge Jewish divide
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER JERUSALEM (AP) — Three years after he narrowly missed out on becoming prime minister of Israel, Isaac Herzog says he looks forward to becoming […]
Where Churches Have Become Temples of Cheese, Fitness and Eroticism
Source: The New York Times By Dan Bilefsky MONTREAL — For generations, parishioners whispered their sins in the dark wooden confessional booths of Notre-Dame-du-Perpétuel-Secours, an imposing Roman Catholic church […]
Carmel hate crime: Mayor asks residents to fly flags to show solidarity against ‘this horrific act of vandalism’
Source: IndyStar BY Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star CARMEL — More than 1,000 community leaders, faith leaders and residents filled the Congregation Shaarey Tefilla Monday evening in a massive show of […]
Uber halts development of self-driving trucks
Source: BBC News Uber has said it will stop developing self-driving trucks to focus its autonomous technology solely on cars. Uber’s self-driving truck programme started in 2016 with a team […]
Thousands download 3D-printed gun designs
Source: BBC News Blueprints for 3D-printed guns, published online four days early amid last-minute attempts to ban them, have been downloaded thousands of times. The designs were not due to […]