Source: Reuters BY Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR (Reuters) – India on Sunday imposed curfews in several parts of the contested Kashmir region, after clashes between security forces and Shi’ite Muslims taking […]
Source: BBC Storytelling is an innately human quality; one that crosses cultures and languages. Just as my sister and I huddled together as children while our mother read to us […]
Source: Religion News Service LINDAU, Germany (RNS) — The international interfaith organization Religions for Peace introduced its first-ever female and first-ever Muslim secretary-general at its World Assembly on Friday (Aug. […]
Source: CBC News Amrit Kaur says she was forced to leave Quebec to teach school BY Meera Bains Amrit Kaur, teacher and vice-president of the Quebec chapter of the World […]
Source: The Columbus Dispatch By Danae King The Columbus Dispatch The popular notion that more and more women in their 20s and 30s are flocking to the cloistered life does […]
Source: New York Times By PM Imran Khan If the world does nothing to stop the Indian assault on Kashmir and its people, two nuclear-armed states will get ever closer […]
Source: Time BY JAMIE DUCHARME In 1993, researchers discovered a stretch of DNA on the X chromosome they believed to be linked to male homosexuality. In the years since, the concept of a […]
% of U.S. adults who say God or a higher power has … Rewarded them 67% Punished them 40%https://t.co/oiqaJheIzA pic.twitter.com/J4pDhH0vxI — Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) June 29, 2019
Source: New York Times By Kai Schultz VRINDAVAN, India — Like thousands of other widows exiled from their homes to a city in northern India, Nirmala Maheshwari said she was […]
Romanian Muslims, some with Ottoman roots, largely spared Islamophobic rhetoric seen in neighbouring countries. People know and like their Muslim neighbours and they don’t believe everything they see on TV. […]
Source: Reuters By Rozanna Latiff, Krishna N. Das KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s cabinet discussed the permanent residency of Indian Islamic preacher Zakir Naik on Wednesday, with three ministers demanding his expulsion […]
Source: The Washington Post By Kapil Komireddi, who is the author of “Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the Muslim-majority state as […]
Source: Religion News Service By David A. Guba Jr. Last summer in France, dozens of “CBD cafés” suddenly opened across the country. Exploiting a legal loophole originally created for hemp […]
Source: The Economist IT IS A well-established fact among religion-watchers that charismatic forms of Christianity, including the Pentecostal churches, are the fastest-growing variety of the world’s largest monotheism. Another widely […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted six men of the killing of a 55-year-old Muslim dairy farmer, citing lack of evidence, raising questions over the prosecution’s […]
Source: sbs.com.au |BY NICK BAKER President Joko Widodo is being urged to address his country’s chequered human rights record. Human Rights Watch has implored Indonesian President Joko Widodo to tackle an […]
The numbers tell a powerful story, one in which religious adherents of all sorts are, in fact, far more connected and generous than their non-religious counterparts. Source: mosaicmagazine.com For over […]
Source: Vice.com By Shamani Joshi From attention-seeking trolls to hazardous shitposters to just those who want to put their opinions out there, all kinds of people exist on social media. […]
Source: The Guardian Minister says women now have justice but Muslim groups accuse Hindu-led government of community interference India’s parliament has approved a bill outlawing the centuries-old right of a […]
Source: Reuters BY Lesley Wroughton, David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday called out ally Saudi Arabia for the suppression of religious liberties and urged it to […]