Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Officially recognized faith groups in China are promoting the flying of national flags at religious events amid a push by the ruling Communist Party […]
Source: Associated press By JAN M. OLSEN COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Supporters and opponents of a ban on garments covering the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or […]
Source: Christian Today By JEREMY WEBER Among regular attenders of religious services: 2 in 3 go because of their kids, Catholics half as likely as Protestants to value sermons, and […]
Source : Religion News Service BY Emily McFarlan Miller (RNS) — Fewer adults are attending religious services in the United States, but not necessarily because they don’t believe. Many cite […]
Source: Reuters BY Krishna N. Das NELLIE, India (Reuters) – Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India’s worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS (/ˈʃriːniˌvɑːsə rɑːˈmɑːnʊdʒən/;[1] listen (help·info); 22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920)[2] was an Indianmathematician who lived during the British Rule in India. Though he had almost […]
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Children in traditionally Buddhist Tibet have been banned from taking part in religious activities over the summer holidays, an official Chinese Communist Party newspaper […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Melissa Williams-Sambrano PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (RNS) — When he was 18, Kerwyn Jordan came out to his family and close friends, and he’s been open […]
Source: Reuters BY Asif Shahzad, Kay Johnson LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani cleric Hafiz Saeed is one of the United States’ most-wanted terrorist suspects, accused over the 2008 Mumbai attacks that […]
Source: The Guardian Ex-education secretary says assemblies, syllabus and admissions policy need change By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The law on RE has become a barrier to schools’ ability to help […]
Source: NPR BY Shankar Vedantam ,Laura Kwerel,Tara Boyle ,Rhaina Cohen,Parth Shah,Lucy Perkins and Jennifer Schmidt Let’s take a moment to go back in time. For most of human history, we […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Rosalie Chan (RNS) By now it is abundantly clear that religious groups have taken a stand on the moral necessity of combating climate change. Pope […]
Source: BBC News By Kelly Grovier The beautiful game? Football ought to be rechristened ‘the holy game’. After all, that is how people who cannot otherwise agree on anything else […]
Source: Pew Research Center Countries with the most extensive government restrictions on religion Most countries around the world have some form of restrictions on religion – whether it is through […]
Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMO & DOMENICO MONTANARO Lots of controversial cases at the intersection of religion and the law wind up before the Supreme Court. And, for most of U.S. […]
Source: The Washington Post By Juliet Eilperin ABOARD THE SHIP MORE SPACIOUS THAN THE HEAVENS —Off the island of Spetses, the leader of 300 million Christians worldwide told a group of nearly […]
Source: CNN BY Analysis by Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)Less than a month ago, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Christian baker who refused to make a […]
Source: DW When Iran’s football squad beat Morocco 1-0 in their opening Wold Cup match, Iranians broke out in ecstatic jubilation. It was the first time in 20 years that the […]
Source: BBC News By Brandon Ambrosino Siri, do you believe in God? “Humans have religion. I just have silicon.” Siri, do you believe in God? “I eschew theological disquisition.” Siri, […]
Source: NPR BY SAMANTHA RAPHELSON Chavie Weisberger was raised in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Monsey, N.Y., and was forced to marry a man she barely knew when she was 19. […]