Source: Spirituality & Health As a surgeon I have used the word “cancer” — the C-word — thousands of times in my life. I have spent my entire professional life researching it, trying to find ways to resect it, suppress it, and, whenever possible, outright annihilate it. I knew what […]
Huff Post The “God-given vision” started out simply enough: build a 7-foot-tall cross on a mountain and invite people to meditate there with the Creator. Now, 20 years later, the cross will cost $5 million and rise nearly 200 feet once complete, making it the largest cross in the world. […]
Huff Post I was sitting on the dirt floor with about a dozen of my seminary students. Bugs crawled along the walls of the shack constructed of discarded wood, cardboard and plasterboard. Empty plastic bags and trash littered the flimsy structure, hugging the hut as if they were adornments. The […]
the guardian A British TV channel that aired a lecture saying it is acceptable to murder someone who has shown disrespect to the prophet Muhammad is facing a significant fine or potentially even closure by Ofcom. Ofcom has taken the unprecedented step of ruling that DM Digital, which targets the Asian […]
Huff Post As far as I can remember, I’ve always looked different. In elementary school, my classmates called me a girl, a genie and Aladdin. In middle school, I was […]
Standard Times- Go SanAngelo Recently, when asked, “What can fear do to you?” I was reminded of two experiences. The first started with me asking a Sunday School class of first graders, “What would you say if someone wanted you to pray for them?” A visitor to the class, a […]
the guardian Look for the religion section of almost any bookshop in Britain, and you’ll find it’s been subsumed under “Mind, body and spirit”. The reason is simple: what we call religion has changed – dramatically – in just the past 30 years. I think the change is so significant […]
the guardian Today is Star Wars Day, being May the Fourth. (Say the date slowly, several times.) Around the world, film buffs, storm troopers and Jedi are gathering to celebrate one of the greatest science fiction romps of all time. It would be easy to let the fan boys enjoy […]
Inqiurer News Philippines By: Shlomo Ben Ami MADRID—Mohamed Merah’s killing spree in and around Toulouse in March, like the 2004 Madrid train bombings and the 2005 suicide attacks in London’s […]
The Sacramento Bee ISLAMABAD — Last week, police officers in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore visited a mosque run by Ahmadis, a minority Muslim sect considered by the rest of the country to be heretical. They looked around, and then announced their conclusion: The mosque looks too much like a mosque. So, […]
Russian TV: One of the most radical Muslim confessions is on an aggressive campaign of preaching ultra-conservative Islam in Germany. Protected by the freedom of religion act, they spread a […]
AllAfrica Katutura — WE respect Armas Shikongo for usually taking a public stand on important issues. His principled stance on the Palestinian question for instance comes to mind here. However, we would like to engage in that public debate about religion called for by Shikongo in his article ‘A Faith-based […]
Dawn: by Asghar Ali Engineer: RECENTLY a conference of the Muslim Personal Law Board in India saw a huge crowd of 200,000 Muslims from all over Maharashtra. The chairman of the […]
Daily Times Iqbal Butt’s fate is absolutely insignificant in a country where the governor of the largest province can be shot dead by his own bodyguard for merely suggesting that the blasphemy laws need to be revised An 80-year-old man, Iqbal Butt, who had been accused of blasphemy but released […]
The Express Tribune ABBOTTABAD: In their effort to ‘wipe out’ Osama bin Laden, the Americans buried him at sea and Pakistani authorities razed his compound – but neither succeeded in erasing him from popular imagination. The slain al Qaeda chief, on the contrary, is evolving from fact to myth in […]
the guardian Do the gods pollute? Scientists in India, worried about the public health consequences of immersing idols in lakes and rivers, have been looking anew at water pollution. They hope, and perhaps in some cases pray, to harmonise their medical concerns with some people’s religious priorities. Most of their research has focused on idols […]
The Horn The Ahmadiyya Muslim Student Organization presented their interfaith dialogue Coexist: A Message of Peace throughout The University of Texas campus community on Sunday, April 29 in the SAC Black Box Theatre. Founded to spread awareness of Ahmadiyya Islam, the purpose of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Student Organization is to […]
Source: National A recent On Faith column, ‘A Prayer for Abortion?’, isn’t a full accounting of how people of faith consider women’s health issues. As the chair of the Planned Parenthood Clergy Advisory Board, I work with faith leaders from all different traditions and backgrounds. We strongly believe that women […]
Huff Post The Washington Post dubbed it “the temptation of Tim Tebow.” A certain website that I do not care to name or even to describe what kind of reprehensible service they provide has made news by pulling a clever PR stunt. It all started at a press conference three years ago when […]
Daily Times: Yasser Latif Hamdani: Jinnah believed in equal rights for all people, regardless of religion or gender, because he believed in freedom of speech and freedom of expression. He […]