Huff Post Hundreds of worshippers in Sacramento, Calif., were able to celebrate Easter together this Sunday thanks to a local Muslim organization that let the Christians hold services in their mosque, theSacramento Bee reports. For the past 12 years, members of the Spiritual Life Center of Sacramento had rented out space at […]
Philippine News Filipino penitents are nailed to wooden crosses during a reenactment of the crucifixion during Good Friday. (Erik de Castro – Reuters) The devotees say they endure the pain to give thanks, atone for their sins and pray during Holy Week. “I feel good because my suffering has ended,” […]
By Kecia Ali Associate Professor of Religion, Boston University It’s spring again. The forsythia are in bloom and the days grow longer. Somehow, spring always takes me by surprise — and that’s no different this year, even after a winter so mild it barely deserved the name. But even as […]
Source: Huff Post My local paper sent a notice around to all the local clergy asking the question: “What relevance does Easter have in the world today?” What world? In the Buddhist, Jewish, Jain, Zoroastrian, Shinto, Zen, Islamic, Sikh, Wiccan, Atheist and Secularist worlds, Easter has as much relevance, I […]
Christians know why Jesus died: He died for our sins. That’s what we’re taught from the earliest days of Sunday school. And we all know how he died: A particularly gruesome form of public execution known as crucifixion. But many Christians are less sure of how it works. How is […]
Daily Telegraph: This week before Easter, I chanced upon the following two quotations. The first says: “Not for 2,000 years has it been possible for society to exclude or eliminate […]
Source: The Local Over a third of Germans believe in life after death, a new survey revealed on Saturday. Around 36 percent of Germans said that they believed life continued […]
Epigraph: And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. (1 Corinthians 15:14) By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim […]
Source: the guardian Devoted Catholics in the Philippine province of Pampanga take part in an annual ritual, some letting themselves be nailed to the cross, to commemorate the suffering of Jesus Christ. Thousands of local and foreign tourists come to watch the crucifixions every year. The church in the predominantly […]
Source: onislam CAIRO – The outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams believes that hijab is a personal choice for Muslim women that can help them “assert themselves” in communities with different cultures, The Week reported. “She told me how she would wear her veil and yet take part, too, in […]
Source: The Commercial Appeal Every Hijabi has a story. Hajar Sakhi, a Rhodes College student from Nashville, was working at a fast-food restaurant in high school. One day, a customer looked at her wearing a uniform visor over her headscarf and started laughing. He left without ordering. “My manager said, […]
Huff Post Religion Jesus may not have risen, but an art historian thinks he knows why the apostles believed. Thomas de Wesselow explains what the Shroud of Turin can tell us about the birth of Christianity — and how he came to his conclusions. Perhaps his most startling assertion is […]
Source: Huff Post MABALACAT, Philippines – Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on roads, carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled on Thursday in an annual gory religious ritual as the mainly Catholic Philippines observed near the end of the Lenten season. Many Filipino devotees perform religious […]
Huff Post Religion ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Muslims in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan are up in arms at a vodka producer for including the word “Allah” on its liquor bottles. Privately owned Channel 31 cited Bekzat Boranbaiuly, head imam at a mosque in the city of Semey, as saying […]
Source: Huff Post Usually we know where to look for answers. You know where to go for the weather forecast, and who to call when your car won’t start. If you need to find something more esoteric–who fought the War of the Spanish Succession, or what is the main export […]
By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) Jean Younis won’t be wearing an Easter bonnet at church this Sunday. Instead, the office manager at Bonita Valley Adventist Church in National City, Calif., will don an Islamic headscarf to support the family and friends of Shaima Alawadi, the Iraqi immigrant and […]
Huff Post The Royal Canadian Mounted Police haverenewed investigation into possible polygamy within the Bountiful B.C. religious commune, a settlement of roughly 1,000 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints located in southeastern British Columbia near the U.S.-Canadian border, the Canadian Press reports. Shirley Bond, the attorney-general of […]
Ahmadiyya Times: By Imran Jattala: This time the war will not remain just between Israel and Iran; but it will force all countries of the world to fight each other,” Hadhrat Ahmad wrote […]
Huff Post It doesn’t take much to look around and see that there is a need for understanding and love, instead of fear and hate. Still reeling from the death of Trayvon Martin, the resulting protests and revelations, and stories that abound about people who die every day in this […]
Source: the guardian Whenever modern civilisations contemplate their own mortality, there is one ghost that will invariably rise up from its grave to haunt their imaginings. In February 1776, a few months after the publication of the first volume of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon commented […]