This is your brain on religion
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 […]
Challenging religious liberty in the public square could open the door to Satan. Good.
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 […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Challenges Religious Right On Specific Bible Passages
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.) […]
Are humans born to be religious?
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 […]
Who Created God? John Lennox at The Veritas Forum at UCLA
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 […]
Houses of worship are supposed to be safe. So why do they keep getting set on fire?
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 […]
The Indian Dalit man killed for eating in front of upper-caste men
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 […]
Harvard University Documentary: The God Question?
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 […]
Surah Rome: A Powerful Case for Our Creator God
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 […]
Only 27% in Western Europe Believe in God of the Bible
In none of 15 Western European countries we surveyed do a majority of adults believe in God as described in the Bible: https://t.co/3v8Vku9Ak3 pic.twitter.com/nj59lPbK79 — Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) May […]
Woman arrested in Poland over posters of Virgin Mary with rainbow halo
Source: The Guardian BY Christian Davies in Warsaw A woman has been arrested on suspicion of offending religious sentiment, after posters bearing an image of the Virgin Mary with her halo […]
Child sexual abuse inquiry to be held into religious organisations
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Child sexual abuse in a wide range of religious organisations and settings, including Jehovah’s Witnesses and Buddhists, is to be scrutinised in an […]
AP joins global initiative to expand reporting on religion
Source: Associated Press The Associated Press is joining with the Religion News Service and the nonprofit publisher The Conversation to form a global initiative to expand news reporting on religion […]
A Scholar of Extremism on How Religious Conflict Shapes Sri Lanka
Source: The New Yorker By Isaac Chotiner On Easter Sunday, terrorists slaughtered nearly three hundred people in Sri Lanka, in coördinated attacks at three churches and three luxury hotels. The government has […]
Nearly 27 Years After Hindu Mob Destroyed A Mosque, The Scars In India Remain Deep
Source: NPR At 80, Syed Ikhlaq Latifi’s face is lined and leathery, with a stark white beard. But he’s still able to scramble up three flights of stairs to his […]
Jokowi’s Poll Fight Shows Indonesia’s Islam Identity Crisis
By Arys Aditya and Thomas Kutty Abraham April 13, 2019, Questions of faith have dogged president throughout his term Concerns over fake news have dominated election campaign Joko Widodo […]
Pew Research Center: India will have the world’s most Muslims in 2060
Source: Pew Research Center A recent report of Pew Research Center featured a list in the form of two tables. The tables feature the Christian and the Muslim populations from […]
Quebec government pushes ahead with religious symbols bill as opponents fight back
Source: The Globe and Mail INGRID PERITZ MONTREAL Quebec Premier Francois Legault responds to the Opposition during question period on Feb. 5, 2019, at the legislature in Quebec City. JACQUES […]
Is religion good or bad for humanity? Epic analysis delivers an answer
Source: New Scientist By Harvey Whitehouse RELIGION has given us Bach’s cantatas and pogroms, algebra and the Spanish Inquisition. The debate over whether religion lifts humanity higher or brings out our […]
Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says
Source: Scientific American By Lee Billings, who is an associate editor for Scientific American. He covers space and physics. In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the […]