DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL People take part in Qatar’s National Day celebrations in Doha, Qatar, Dec. 18, 2017. (Reuters Photo) The 13th Doha International Interfaith Conference kicked off in the Qatari capital Doha on Tuesday, welcoming 500 participants from 50 countries. The two-day event, organized by […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Iceland is poised to become the first European country to outlaw male circumcision amid signs that the ritual common to both Judaism and Islam may be a […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer President Trump speaks during the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday morning. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) In his address to the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday […]
Source: The Conversation by Kim Haines-Eitzen Professor of Early Christianity, Cornell University In today’s world, loneliness seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Countless studies have highlighted the serious and negative impact that […]
Source: The Atlantic BY CAROLINE KITCHENER Nearly half a century after Mao Tse-Tung banned religion in China, the country is home to an estimated 72 percent of the world’s religiously unaffiliated […]
Source: The Washington Post Since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015, a slew of controversial cases have raised questions over whether LGBT rights can coexist with religious […]
Source: Associated Press By EILEEN NG KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s top court said in a landmark decision Monday that both parents must consent to the religious conversion of […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla The debut of “Padmaavat” set off a new round of discord. A controversial new Bollywood movie is causing security concerns in India as it […]
Source: Siasat There is a lot of controversy regarding Alauddin Khilji in the wake of the new Bollywood film, “Padmavati,” which purports to depict Khilji’s conquest of Chittor in 1303 […]
Source: Gizmodo By Ed Cara Contrary to what you might assume after hate-browsing Facebook, it seems the internet may have actually made people less dogmatic about religion. A recent study published in the Journal […]
Source: Reuters BY Christian Shepherd BEIJING (Reuters) – A mostly Muslim county in western China has banned children from attending religious events over a winter break, an education bureau […]
Source: BBC News India’s Supreme Court has cleared the release of controversial Bollywood film Padmavat, and overturned the decision by four states to ban its screening. It has been approved […]
Source: Time By JAMES LANKFORD, RUSSELL MOORE January 16, 2018 IDEAS Lankford is a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma; Dr. Moore is the President of the Southern Baptist Convention Ethics and Religious […]
By Domhnall O’Sullivan This content was published on January 14, 2018 11:00 AMJan 14, 2018 – 11:00 A section of the cathedral’s dome showing Gallus taming a […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Every religious and political leader is issuing a message of love and compassion. Yet the world is […]
Source: BBC News Turkey’s main opposition party has called for a parliamentary inquiry after the directorate of religious affairs said that, under Islamic law, girls as young as nine could […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Catholic Church does not allow women priests and hardly any Muslim group or sect allows for women […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MASCI AND CONRAD HACKETT In popular culture, meditation often is associated with Eastern spirituality and its secular offshoots, such as mindfulness. But substantial shares of Americans of […]
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Source: The New York Times By EMMA GREEN A word of advice to the religiously curious: Don’t trust any history of God that has only 171 pages of text. Reza Aslan’s […]