Christian pilgrims pray for peace in Ajloun (Jordan)
AJLOUN — Hundreds of Christian worshipers converged on Saint Elias Church in Ajloun, 70km northwest of Amman, on Friday to perform pilgrimage. The pilgrims attended a religious mass and prayed […]
Girl of 10 can choose to convert from Judaism to Christianity, judge rules
Daily Telegraph: The schoolgirl’s divorced parents were “at war” over her desire to be baptised at the church her father, himself a convert, now attends. But at the end of […]
Interfaith: Fasting Separately, Breaking The Fast Together
Source: The Jewish Week After sundown on Sunday, at the end of the day-long Tisha b’Av fast that commemorates the destruction of the Holy Temples in ancient Jerusalem, the more […]
Film:Albanian Muslims saving Jews brings descendants together.
……. New Film ‘Besa’ Reveals Hidden Past A new documentary traces the forgotten history of Albanian Muslims saving Jews and brings their descendants together. The still-emerging stories from shrinking circles of living Jews who survived persecution by Nazis are among the most interesting and provocative. These are not the stories […]
Tolerance and Taboos – Why Circumcision Is Not a Crime
Source: Spiegel International A commentary by Matthias Matussek “It is this fundamental respect for foreign customs that we are increasingly losing.” A German court’s outlawing of the circumcision of boys — […]
Cracking the Jewish-Muslim Line in the Middle East
By Maryam Vahedi Source: GroundReport After centuries, if not millennia, filled with dark histories of religious tensions between Muslims and Jews one may be considered delusional for suggesting that Muslims and Jews can live together peacefully in the Middle East. Many statesmen and community leaders have tried in vain to […]
The (coming) destruction of The Dome of the Rock (Al Aqsa Mosque) and of Syria.
There is a frightening aspect to the present crises in Palestine and Syria: It seems to be a belief among ‘fundamental’ Christians that there must be a ‘Seven Year Tribulation […]
Muslim and Jewish communities to fast together
The Seattle Chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA and the members of Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue will observe the Muslim fast of Ramadan and the Jewish fast of Tisha […]
European Jewish Leaders on Circumcision Ruling – ‘Worst Attack on Jewish Life Since the Holocaust’
Source: Spiegel International An influential group of European rabbis on Thursday used unusually strong language to attack a German court ruling against the circumcision of boys. If the ruling is […]
NYC officials suggest law change after Jewish circumcision is tied to infant herpes and death
Russian TV: Health officials in New York City are asking for Orthodox Jews to accept a proposed regulation on a circumcision ritual after it has been linked to spreading herpes […]
The crime of circumcision: Militant Atheism
Washington Post: A district judge in Cologne, Germany, recently ruled that ritual circumcision is a crime, violating “the fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity,” which outweighs other parental and […]
Which religion is the correct and true religion?
News24: “Gnostic” comes from the Greek word for “learned”. In the context of religion, it means one claims to know whether god exists or doesn’t. “Agnostic” on the other hand means (at least in this context) unknowable. I’m an agnostic atheist. This means that I don’t believe in the existence […]
Belief-O-Matic and Me
Huff Post by Kecia Ali. Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University According to the Internet, I am 100 percent Reform Jew. This came as something of a surprise to me since I’m a Muslim. Let me explain. In the wake of Sept. 11, I was invited to contribute an essay […]
Mourning Around the World
Huff Post It is always hard when people die. No matter what the situation, it seems impossible to deal with the fact that someone you were close to will no longer be around. Although there is no one way to get over this, people have developed ways to make it […]
My Neighbor’s Faith: What I Found in the Chapel
Huff Post In 1955, after years of intensive seminary study and service in various Orthodox Jewish congregations in New England, I began to feel the need for a broader education and a wider range of experience. Up to this point, my entire religious education had taken place within the Jewish […]
N.T. Wright Asks: Have Christians Gotten Heaven All Wrong?
Huff Post (RNS) The oft-cliched Christian notion of heaven — a blissful realm of harp-strumming angels — has remained a fixture of the faith for centuries. Even as arguments will go on as to who will or won’t be “saved,” surveys show that a vast majority Americans believe that after […]
Laying Down the Sword – Is the Qur’an Violent?
by Qassim Rashid A man whom The Economist calls “one of America’s best scholars on religion” has just released his latest book, “Laying Down the Sword: Why We Can’t Ignore the Bible’s Violent Verses.” Author Philip Jenkins presents a perspective about Christianity, Islam and Judaism that forces readers to think […]
How Islam saved the Jews’: lectures at SOAS
Source: Point of no return I bring you notice of a series of lectures starting on Monday 14 May 2012, (17:30-19:00h at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London – Khalili lecture theatre): The opening lecture is titled:” How Islam Saved the Jews”. Professor David J Wasserstein, a professor at […]
A Divine Way to Resist Temptation
Source: The Wall Street Journal Self-control problems often fade away when it comes to obeying religious dictates. These teenagers are eating a kosher meal in Maryland. I was raised in a kosher household. Though I never fully understood why I couldn’t eat cheeseburgers or pepperoni pizza—the theology still confuses me—I […]