Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Americans’ confidence in religious leaders’ honesty and ethical standards has been tanking in recent years. The level of trust Americans have in clergy members […]
Syria is at a point where the western powers must choose whether to cooperate in its future or turn their backs out of resentment for Russia Mary Dejevsky @IndyVoices The […]
Source: BBC Former US first lady Michelle Obama has ended Hillary Clinton’s 17-year run as America’s most admired woman. Mrs Clinton, ex-presidential candidate, secretary of state and first lady, came third in the annual Gallup poll, with talk-show host Oprah Winfrey in second. The Queen finished in the top 10 […]
Source: CT New research suggests that Americans with poor physical health and low socioeconomic status are particularly inclined to look to the Bible for insights into attaining “health and wealth”— an aspect of prosperity gospel teaching—even though doing so often ends up making them feel worse. “At first glance, it […]
Source: The Conversation By Jerry Coyne; Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago As the West becomes more and more secular, and the discoveries of evolutionary biology and cosmology […]
After visiting American troops in Iraq, Trump left the country without meeting any Iraqi officials. (AFP) AP December 27, 2018 Politicians from both sides of Iraq’s political divide are […]
Dec 26,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN The latest US misadventure in Syria appears to be coming to an end. When, last week, Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of […]
The exiting Defence Secretary has been presented as the restraining hand tugging at the sleeve of the insane Trump – the one man who could stop Nero burning Rome Robert […]
Source: BBC News An eight-year-old boy from Guatemala has died in US government custody, officials say, the second migrant child to die in US detention this month. The border agency […]
Source: The New York Times By Wajahat Ali; Contributing Opinion Writer In Catholic school, I learned about compassion. Some Christians must have missed that part. At Bellarmine, an all-boys Catholic […]
The “post-Millennial” generation is already the most racially and ethnically diverse generation, as a bare majority of 6- to 21-year-olds (52%) are non-Hispanic whites. https://t.co/369VagFDuS pic.twitter.com/lMEAp3E09i — Pew Research Center […]
Millennials are much less likely than older generations to say they celebrate Christmas as a religious holiday, and more likely to say they celebrate it as a cultural holiday. https://t.co/u8MJgarUm7 […]
Trump is sure to double down on the things that his supporters look for – dealing harshly with nations like Iran, hardline immigration policy and rolling back environmental laws Chris […]
Dec 21, 2018 By Phil Stewart and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – By plainly stating his policy differences in his resignation letter, U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis has sparked an […]
Dec 22, 2018 – 18:17 FILE PHOTO – U.S. envoy to the coalition against Islamic State Brett McGurk attends the Kuwait International Conference for Reconstruction of Iraq, in Bayan, Kuwait […]
Dec 18, 2018 – 20:48 United States President Donald Trump will attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2019 for the […]
Dec 20,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – KHALID DALAL Are many local and Arab media outlets about to drown in a tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI)? The short answer is: Yes, and […]
Is it true that we have an evolutionary ‘god-shaped hole’? By Nick Perham, for the Independent Voices The quick and easy answer to why people are religious is that God […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DREW DESILVER When the 116th Congress convenes next month, women will make up nearly a quarter of its voting membership – the highest percentage in U.S. […]
Source: Vox By Jennifer Williams Christmas, as everyone knows, commemorates the birth of Jesus and is a major religious celebration for Christians around the world. But what many people don’t know […]
