Two decades from war, a new fight to save Bosnia
(Reuters) – The shooting began over the course of weeks, but if Bosnia’s war needs a beginning to mark, then it’s April 6, 1992, twenty years ago this Friday. That’s […]
Should God be obeyed? Should the government? Does Christianity have an Answer?
Washigton Post: By Robert A. Burt, Published: April 7 Throughout the Bible, God repeatedly doubts humanity’s worth. We see these misgivings in the book of Genesis, when God decides to kill nearly all […]
Religion and politics in the Philippines
GMA News: Lately, there has been no shortage of press coverage on the religiosity of politicians. The current Vice-President Jejomar Binay projects himself as a devotee of the Sacred Heart of Jesus […]
What Does Jesus’ Crucifixion Solve?
Christians know why Jesus died: He died for our sins. That’s what we’re taught from the earliest days of Sunday school. And we all know how he died: A particularly gruesome form of public execution known as crucifixion. But many Christians are less sure of how it works. How is […]
A society that persecutes Christ is heading for terrible trouble
Daily Telegraph: This week before Easter, I chanced upon the following two quotations. The first says: “Not for 2,000 years has it been possible for society to exclude or eliminate […]
Over a third of Germans believe in life after death
Source: The Local Over a third of Germans believe in life after death, a new survey revealed on Saturday. Around 36 percent of Germans said that they believed life continued […]
Church looks to a future with fewer priests
by Morven McLean, swissinfo.ch A light-filled chapel forms the heart of the seminary in Villars-sur-Glâne near Fribourg. Built 30 years ago to hold 40 young men, it currently houses five. […]
Happy Easter, Let us celebrate and find out: Did Jesus rise in a physical body or a spiritual one?
Epigraph: And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. (1 Corinthians 15:14) By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim […]
Filipinos re-enact crucifixion on Good Friday – video
Source: the guardian Devoted Catholics in the Philippine province of Pampanga take part in an annual ritual, some letting themselves be nailed to the cross, to commemorate the suffering of Jesus Christ. Thousands of local and foreign tourists come to watch the crucifixions every year. The church in the predominantly […]
Hijab Asserts Women: Rowan Williams
Source: onislam CAIRO – The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams believes that hijab is a personal choice for Muslim women that can help them “assert themselves” in communities with different cultures, The Week reported. “She told me how she would wear her veil and yet take part, too, in […]
Shroud Of Turin: Art Historian Thomas de Wesselow Explains Its Relation To The Resurrection (VIDEO)
Huff Post Religion Jesus may not have risen, but an art historian thinks he knows why the apostles believed. Thomas de Wesselow explains what the Shroud of Turin can tell us about the birth of Christianity — and how he came to his conclusions. Perhaps his most startling assertion is […]
Christians In Philippines Self-Flagellate In Bloody Holy Week Ritual (GRAPHIC VIDEO) (PHOTOS)
Source: Huff Post MABALACAT, Philippines – Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on roads, carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled on Thursday in an annual gory religious ritual as the mainly Catholic Philippines observed near the end of the Lenten season. Many Filipino devotees perform religious […]
Resurrection: Fact or Fiction?
Review of Religion has published its March 2012 volume on this theme. Here is the Editorial: The person of Christ is not only important to Christians, but is also significant […]
Patriarch urges strength in face of smear campaign
Russian TV: The head of the Russian Orthodox Church claims that the church is under an information attack, after several scandals broke out in less than a month. Patriarch Kirill […]
Who Speaks for Religion?
Source: Huff Post Usually we know where to look for answers. You know where to go for the weather forecast, and who to call when your car won’t start. If you need to find something more esoteric–who fought the War of the Spanish Succession, or what is the main export […]
Did Darwin Knock out Original Sin?
The answer is a definite ‘Yes’ and details follow! Original Sin requires that Adam and Eve be the first human couple, so all humans can inherit Original Sin from them, […]
Egyptian Copts abandon constitution talks
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has announced it is withdrawing from talks on a new constitution, saying Islamist domination of the drafting body made its participation “pointless”, Egypt’s […]
The author of the Book of Revelation did not approve of St. Paul
Source: CNN The author of Revelation hated Rome, but he also scorned another group – a group of people we would call Christians today, Pagels says. There’s a common perception […]
Was Jesus son of Mary born Without a Father: study of Scientific Possibilities?
The previous International Leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad is explaining scientific possibilities, how Jesus son of Mary could have been conceived without a father.The featured […]
The fall of the Roman empire and the rise of Islam
Source: the guardian Whenever modern civilisations contemplate their own mortality, there is one ghost that will invariably rise up from its grave to haunt their imaginings. In February 1776, a few months after the publication of the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon commented […]