Source: Pacific Standard BY TOM JACOB New research finds that, when evangelical organizations raise their profile by sponsoring a high-profile political campaign, a backlash ensues. (Photo: David McNew/Getty Images) Religion […]
Source: Vox By Nancy D. Wadsworth White evangelical Protestants continue to approve of President Donald Trump at about twice the rate of the general public, according to a recent survey by the […]
Source: CT Now, it’s quite possible to argue that this is just a recognition that the state is historically Christian (and Catholic, actually) – as Bavaria’s chief minister Markus Söder does. But that’s not how it’s being seen by many Christians today. According to Evangelical Focus, a survey in Bild […]
Source: The Guardian Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem Church leaders claim priests are being verbally abused and spat at while property is being vandalised in ancient walled city The Greek Orthodox […]
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Officials from the Vatican’s doctrinal watchdog and leading German churchmen will meet this week to discuss if non-Catholic spouses can receive Holy Communion, […]
Source: Associated Press BY ROD McGUIRK MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, on […]
Source: Huffington Post But don’t cancel your plans just yet. By Ed Mazza A self-declared Bible “researcher” and conspiracy theorist who has predicted a number of failed doomsday dates is […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla TONY ANDERSON VIA GETTY IMAGES Almost three-quarters of religious “nones” believe in a higher power of some kind. The Pledge of Allegiance describes the […]
Epigraph: And We will try you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth and lives, and fruits; but give glad tidings to the patient, who, when a […]
Source: CNN By Munachim Amah, CNN (CNN)A US-owned local radio station has been shut down for insulting women in Rwanda, authorities say. The Amazing Grace Christian Radio, a radio station that […]
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]
Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Bavaria’s conservative government is ordering Christian crosses to be placed at the entrance of all state administrative buildings. The regional government says the crosses […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The former Christian governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, was sentenced to two years […]
Source: The New York Times By IAN AUSTEN and JASON HOROWITZ Indigenous Canadians at a residential school in Fort Resolution, in the Northwest Territories, in a picture from around 1936. Thousands died in […]
Source: Star Tribune By Erin Adler Star Tribune APRIL 20, 2018 — 6:55PM Four years ago, George Nathaniel was fired from his job driving Burnsville kids to school, also for praying with […]
Suggested Reading Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran A Message of Compassion and Love from the Holy Bible True Fasting: A Message of Compassion and Love from […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Gerson Opinion writer April 19 Email the author If the stages of a social movement are emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization and decline, the reaction against the Trump evangelicals among […]
Source: The Conversation The recent dispute over whether Pope Francis denied the existence of hell in an interview attracted wide attention. This isn’t surprising, since the belief in an afterlife, where the virtuous are rewarded with a place in heaven and the wicked are punished in hell, is a core teaching […]
Source: RNS By Jack Jenkins | April 19, 2018 CIA Director Mike Pompeo, nominated to be the next secretary of state, pauses while speaking during his Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on April 12, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Pompeo’s remarks were the first chance for lawmakers and the public to […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By John G. Turner It took a long time for a quintessentially American church to go global. In April 1853 Hosea Stout and two other Mormon missionaries stepped off a boat in Hong Kong. They expected immediate success: Their church’s apostles had promised they […]