Who is the Creator? (Answer Using Logical Reasoning)
Can It Be Matter? A very popular question among atheists is, ‘Granted that the existence of temporal things necessitates the existence of an eternal cause, why should that cause […]
Bible Prophecies of Muhammad
Source: OnIslam By Kamil Mufti The Bible is the sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity. The Christian Bible consists of the Old Testament and the New Testament, with the Roman […]
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Not About Religion
Haaretz Extremists call it a ‘holy war,’ but this conflict has always been about the very secular issues of territory, injustice and identity. Is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a religious one? […]
We Asked Our Readers To Define God In One Word. Here’s What They Told Us.
Epigraph: He is Allah, and there is no God beside Him, the Knower of the unseen and the seen. He is the Gracious, the Merciful. He is Allah, and there […]
Ahmadiyya Reformation in Islam
By Harris Raja In an article published in the Wall Street Journal entitled Why Islam needs a reformation, Ayaan Hirsi listed five areas of Islam that “require amendment.” Hirsi is […]
Prominent women in the Qur’an
By Fatima Gailani In this article I would like to focus on women mentioned in the Qur’an. My intention is not to prove either the superiority or equality of men […]
Attending church synagogue or mosque is the key to good mental health among older Europeans
Source: London School of Economics and Political Science: A study of depression among older Europeans has found that joining a religious organisation is more beneficial than charity work, sport or […]
Quran dating back to Akbar’s period recovered in Mysuru, India
Source: The Hindu The last page bears the year in which it had been written. “It was written in 1050 of the Hijri calendar, which works out to 1605 AD, […]
How Salma Hayek’s New Film ‘Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet’ Brings Together ‘All Religions’
http://embed.live.huffingtonpost.com/HPLEmbedPlayer/?segmentId=55b2c87502a760275e000600&autoPlay=false Award-winning actress and producer Salma Hayek joins a special #WMN to discuss her animated feature film “Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet,” based on Gibran’s best-selling poetry book of the same […]
I’m pledging allegiance to the Caliphate – and no, before you call the Police, I don’t mean Isis
Source: The Independent Soon I’ll be joining 30,000 other Muslims in London to embrace real Islamic values By Waqar Ahmedi I’ve made up my mind. I’ll soon be packing my […]
Religious people cope better with cancer than non believers, a study suggests.
Those with the greatest faith said they had better physical health, greater ability to carry on doing everyday tasks and fewer physical symptoms of cancer Religion and spirituality were a […]
The Religious Roots of Domestic Terror
Epigraph: Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? (Matthew 7:3) Source: The Daily […]
America Strongly Believes in Religious Freedom but Is Less Welcoming To Muslims
Even if America strongly believes in religious freedom, the public is still cold in welcoming Muslims. The United States has long been considered as the “Land of the Free” not […]
US Oath Of Allegiance Changed: Pledge To Military Service No Longer Required For Naturalized Citizens
Naturalized citizens will no longer have to pledge to defend the United States through military service when reciting the Oath of Allegiance if they have certain religious or conscientious objections, […]
Religion Better for Mental Health Than Sport, Study Finds
Newsweek: Researchers from the London School of Economics (LSE) and the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands studied the impact of various social activities on depressive symptoms in older […]
The Top Five Reasons to Study Religion
Source: Huffington Post By Gary Laderman; Chair of the Department of Religion, Emory University and Editor of Sacred Matters Magazine It’s not easy being chair of a religion department. August is […]
More young Chinese embracing religion
Islam and Catholicism were found to have the highest proportion of believers under the age of 30 …………. According to a recent survey by Renmin University, religious Chinese are getting […]
Innovations by Muslims that shaped the modern world
Most people have the erroneous opinion that Coffee comes from Italy when in reality, Yemen is where the ubiquitous brew has its true origins. Along with the first university, and […]
The Oldest Qur’an Controversy
The oldest Qur’ans are actually in Yemen, in danger being bombed By: Juan Cole The discovery of a couple pages [apparently actually 18] of a very old Qur’an (the Muslim […]
Scientists answer Questions about Science and Religion
These answers have been taken from the workshop, organized by Christine Legare at the University of Texas at Austin, aimed to encourage a sophisticated, evidence-based look at the psychology behind […]