Huff Post LUMBERTON, N.C. (RNS) Andrew Bowen sat yoga-style in his armchair, absent-mindedly fingering a set of Muslim prayer beads in his left hand as he talked about 2011 — his year of conversion. But he’s not Muslim. In fact, the 29-year-old Lumberton resident doesn’t call himself by any of […]
CNN: By Mitch Horowitz, Special to CNN: Imagine the following scenario: A U.S. president is discovered to be spending his spare time taking a razor to the New Testament, cutting up and […]
Express News: LAHORE: An elderly man, recently released from prison after acquittal by the court on proving innocent in a blasphemy case, was shot dead by the complainant in the Farooqabad […]
Source: Huff Post By Kemal Argon Christians are directly concerned with and interested in the prophetic biography of Jesus Christ. Muslims are directly interested in the prophetic biography of the Prophet Muhammad and following his example. Muslims believe that both of these Prophets, Muhammad and Jesus, actually met each other. […]
Russian TV: Russian legislators have set up a group to protect traditional Christian values and fight “aggressive liberalism,” secularism, violence, and drug, alcohol and gambling addiction. Put forward by Communist […]
Huff Post HASAN ABDAL, Pakistan — Thousands of Indian pilgrims barely registered the man in the orange bandanna and Ray-Ban sunglasses taking their shoes and storing them in wooden cubbyholes before they entered the Sikh shrine in this town in northwest Pakistan. The unassuming 62-year-old tending to the shoes is […]
the guardian Democracy and Islam can flourish together, David Cameron will declare on Thursday as he uses a landmark speech in Indonesia to tell the Muslim world that it can reject a “dead-end choice” between extremism and dictatorship. In one of his most significant speeches on Islam, the prime minister will say that the world can […]
Huff Post Can you say anything about the Catholic faith without other Catholics taking offense? No matter how benign, no comment on the web about Catholicism goes unchallenged. Moreover, the idea of trying to understand a person by reading carefully what they’re actually saying, or giving them the benefit of […]
Huff Post What is Passover really about? The more I mull over the Exodus story, the more I think it’s always been about change – or more accurately — about our very human inclination to resist change. At every point in the story, we come across resistance to the transitions faced by […]
Huff Post I am pleased to see the lively exchange of comments generated by my recent post: “Testing Prayer: Can Science Prove the Healing Power of Prayer?” Many people have raised difficult and important questions that I have been thinking about for years. These questions can roughly be grouped into six categories: […]
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in The Gambia on Friday held its 36th Jalsa Salana (annual convention) at Masroor Senior Secondary School in Old Yumdum. Addressing the convention, Amir Sahib Baba F Trawally, the Amir of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at of The Gambia revealed that this blessed and divine gathering started […]
Pakistan Today: By:Waqqas Mir: The year is 1948. Major Mahmud, an Ahmadi, is murdered in a manner described by the 1954 Justice Munir Report as “singularly brutal.” He is an army […]
Huff Post Islam LONDON — “Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam,” the exhibition at the British Museum that has drawn more than 80,000 visitors since it opened in late January is a remarkable achievement. First, it is glitz-free, relying on its intellectual content rather than the son et lumiere approach on which so […]
Huff Post By John Backman: Writer and principal, The Dialogue Venture We know very little about God. This is hardly a new idea. Most of the best-known faith traditions, such as Hinduism and Buddhism, view God as utterly shrouded in mystery. The traditional Christian belief about God — one essence, […]
Huff Post Hundreds of worshippers in Sacramento, Calif., were able to celebrate Easter together this Sunday thanks to a local Muslim organization that let the Christians hold services in their mosque, theSacramento Bee reports. For the past 12 years, members of the Spiritual Life Center of Sacramento had rented out space at […]
Philippine News Filipino penitents are nailed to wooden crosses during a reenactment of the crucifixion during Good Friday. (Erik de Castro – Reuters) The devotees say they endure the pain to give thanks, atone for their sins and pray during Holy Week. “I feel good because my suffering has ended,” […]
By Kecia Ali Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University It’s spring again. The forsythia are in bloom and the days grow longer. Somehow, spring always takes me by surprise — and that’s no different this year, even after a winter so mild it barely deserved the name. But even as […]
Source: Huff Post My local paper sent a notice around to all the local clergy asking the question: “What relevance does Easter have in the world today?” What world? In the Buddhist, Jewish, Jain, Zoroastrian, Shinto, Zen, Islamic, Sikh, Wiccan, Atheist and Secularist worlds, Easter has as much relevance, I […]
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 […]
INDIANAPOLIS — After the summons to worship, the Lord’s Prayer and the first hymn of the morning, the pastor of the South Calvary Missionary Baptist Churchhere asked the visitors to stand. […]