Source: The Daily Telegraph By Gabriella Swerling Christian belief has halved in Britain in 35 years with just one in three people now identifying as Christian – while atheism and […]
22 Countries Decry Mass Detention, Seek Monitoring Twenty-two countries at the United Nations’ top human rights body issued a joint statement this week, urging China to end its mass arbitrary […]
Source: The Mercury News By ABIYA AHMED This month my son Ismael turned one. For his birthday, I wrote him a letter in which I tell him we named him after […]
Source: BBC Hundreds of young people belonging to India’s Jain community have begun renouncing the material world to become monks who always walk barefoot, eat only what they receive as alms and never bathe or use modern technology. The BBC’s Priyanka Pathak explores why. “I will never be able to […]
Source: The Daily Times Dr Syed Nazir Gilani Muslims of Punjab and Muslims of Kashmir have a historical role in the construction of Golden Temple of Sikh faith and in […]
Source: PEW Centre By Michael Lipka The Canadian province of Quebec recently enacted a new law that bans many public employees – including teachers, police officers and judges – from wearing religious symbols in the workplace. While advocates of the measure say it promotes the separation of church and state, […]
Source: The New York Times By Olivia Goldhill CONSCIENCE – The Origins of Moral Intuition By Patricia S. Churchland In “Conscience,” Patricia Churchland recounts a conversation with Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, in which he laments moral philosophers’ focus on reason. “Surely,” he said, “philosophers must know about biological […]
Source: BBC News By Hana Zeratsyon For Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christians, the ancient city of Aksum is a sacred place, home to the Biblical Queen of Sheba and Ark of the […]
Source: The Economist Mbar lifts up his trousers and points at the marks where the chains wore his skin away. He was 11 when his father sent him from his village […]
Source: The Washington Post By Nora Loreto Nora Loreto is a Canadian freelance writer and author of “From Demonized to Organized: Building the New Union Movement.” Fatima Ahmad was attacked in […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times It is very simple! And as we celebrate, the first United Nations International Day of Yoga – the […]
How Religious Belief Can Affect Health Source: Next Avenue According to Newberg, a number of studies point to an association between religious involvement and decreased morbidity and mortality. By Debbie […]
Source: USA Today By Jay Wexler Satan has been having a hell of a year. Just two months ago, the IRS announced that it now recognizes the Satanic Temple (TST) as a bona fide […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Ed Mazza Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is calling on the Christian right to “uphold their principles” on one key issue: interest rates. The freshman lawmaker and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) […]
Do humans have a ‘religion instinct’? Source: BBC By Brandon Ambrosino Are spiritual beliefs an inevitable consequence of evolution? In the second article in a two-part series, Brandon Ambrosino examines […]
Suggested reading Trinity: An apple cannot be a rock and a monkey at the same time … Video: The most famous Christian apologist, William Lane Craig, accepts there is no Trinity […]
Source: The Washington Post By Marisa Iati The first fire lit up the shingles of the rabbi’s home, forcing him and his family into their car for safety. Less than a […]
By Vineet Khare; BBC Hindi, Uttarakhand A helpless anger pervades the Dalit community in the remote Indian village of Kot. Last month, a group of upper-caste men allegedly beat up […]
Suggested Reading Religion and Science: The Indispensable God-hypothesis Video: The world’s best known atheist, Richard Dawkins does seem to believe in a Creator God Now that Ben Carson is out of Presidential […]
Allah says in verses 17-27 and I am quoting from the translation by Muhammad Abdel Haleem: So celebrate God’s glory in the evening, in the morning – praise is due […]