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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

No deal for Greece as talks drag

  LONDON (CNNMoney) — European finance ministers concluded a marathon meeting Wednesday without finalizing the details of a debt-reduction package for Greece. The absence of an agreement endangers the release of the next round of Greece’s international bailout package, funding the country needs to remove the threat of bankruptcy and […]

Austria partners with Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Spain to further religious dialogue

Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Austrian Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michal Spindelegger and Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo will launch the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) in Vienna on Monday. “The opening ceremony of the KAICIID […]

Jesus wept …

theguardian: When water started trickling down a statue of Jesus Christ at a Catholic church in Mumbai earlier this year, locals were quick to declare a miracle. Some began collecting the holy water and the Church of Our Lady of Velankanni began to promote it as a site of pilgrimage. […]

How the Bible Began Saying Life Begins at Conception

Huffiington Post: Evangelical anti-abortion advocacy rests on a surprisingly flimsy foundation. And exposing that fact makes establishment evangelical leaders nervous. On Nov. 7, Christianity Today published a feature-length article on the front page of its website that was its second such article responding to an op-ed I wrote for CNN. In the op-ed, titled “When […]