(Reuters) – Countries should repeal all laws punishing blasphemy and people who leave a faith, the United Nations’ top expert on freedom of religion said on Wednesday, thrusting himself into […]
Source: The Economist: FATHER Brendan Hoban is a priest in a remote Irish village who is also active in the national and international Catholic scene. In the midst of this busy life, he told me, he often reflects on something he heard from a professor when he was in seminary 40 years ago. “Irish […]
By Gerry HaddenPRI’s The World More than 500 years ago, tens of thousands of Jews fled Spain because of persecution. Now their descendants are being invited to return. Before the infamous Spanish Inquisition of the 15th Century, some 300,000 Jews lived in Spain. It was one of the largest communities […]
International Business Times: ………….. Moroccan journalist Ahmed Bensalh Es-salhi wrote an op-ed in Correo Diplomático, in which he lamented that the “decision to grant Spanish citizenship to the grandchildren of […]
OnIslam & News Agencies Tuesday, 05 March 2013 00:00 “I have all faith in Allah to support me and to guide me through these moments,” Doorn said. AMSTERDAM – A […]
Nearly a million households are spending more than a quarter of their income running a car, research has found. The RAC Foundation has used data from ONS, the Government’s statistical […]
The Government’s food watchdog will ask UK consumers how much horse or other species of animal would be “acceptable” to find in their food products. In the wake of the […]
Source: CNN Rome (CNN) — A group representing survivors of sexual abuse by priests on Wednesday named a “Dirty Dozen” list of cardinals it said would be the worst candidates for pope based on their handling of child sex abuse claims. Their presence on the list is based “on their […]
Source: The Local: Berlin’s Roman Catholic Archdiocese has condemned a German charlatan for masquerading as a bishop and sneaking into the Vatican to fraternize with cardinals as they prepare to choose a new pope. More:
Religion and Politics: By Qasim Rashid and Chris Stedman | Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or […]
Source: onislam. AMSTERDAM – A leading member in far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ party has reverted to Islam after an extensive study about the Islamic religion and Muslims. “I can understand people are skeptic, especially that it is unexpected for many of them,” Arnoud Van Doorn told Al-Jazeera English […]
Source: Huff Post, Brad Gooch. When Dick Davis, the preeminent translator of Persian poetry of our time, was a boy in Portsmouth, England, in the 1950s, he found on his parents’ bookshelf a copy of Edward FitzGerald’s swooning Victorian translations of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Its presence was not so […]
by Rachid Khachana in Doha, swissinfo.ch Mar 4, 2013 While serving in diplomatic posts across the Arab world, the current Swiss ambassador to Qatar found that speaking the local language […]
A public inquiry into whether British soldiers committed crimes in Iraq nine years ago is due to start shortly A public investigation into whether British soldiers committed crimes while serving in Iraq nine years ago is due to start shortly. The investigation will determine whether UK troops killed civilians. Al […]
Source: Deutsche Welle New Islamic theology courses at German universities are proving highly popular, even abroad. The courses were announced only three years ago, but they are already changing the […]
When my parents enrolled me in a Catholic school in Pakistan, our neighbors expressed a concern: Will my faith be at risk because of attending a Catholic school? As it […]
A video clip by Bashy Quraishy He was born in India, but grew up in Pakistan. He has studied Engineering in Germany and USA, and later studied International Marketing in London. He is a member of a number of Commissions, Committees and Boards involved with Human Rights, Ethnic/Religious Equality Issues, […]
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Huffington Post: Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, Conservative Open To Reform, And Maybe Next Pope VIENNA — Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn is a soft-spoken conservative who is ready to listen to […]
by Jeannie Wurz, swissinfo.ch Mar 1, 2013 – 15:31 Half the nine- to 16-year-olds in Switzerland have been exposed via the Internet to sex pictures, depictions of violence, or cybermobbing, or have had contact with strangers, according to a study by the University of Zurich. Parents in Switzerland are to […]