TV host writes: ‘What Islam is for me
….This is how one Muslim woman in Turkey answers the question: …….Everyone is aware of the state of affairs that has become increasingly seen in Western societies in recent years; […]
Christianity vs. Islam
Source: TheLibertyWeb. The main commonalities are that they both originated in the Middle East and also have common holy lands. They are both monotheistic religions, believing in just one personified God, and are religions that have just one supreme book of revelations in which their followers have recorded their absolute […]
The future of Catholicism Leap of faith
Source: The Economist: AS THEY mull over the details of his papacy—the gaffes, the cerebral pronouncements, the deepening scandals—some Vatican-watchers will struggle to position Pope Benedict XVI in the broad sweep of Catholic history. Does he mark the end of an era? The start of something new? Or was he […]
Religion at the Academy Awards
Huff Post: S. Brent Plate. He is drawn to ritual and tradition, and gleefully syncretizes elements of Hindu, Muslim, and Christian practices. What sticks in his throat most is the absence of ritual, the hindrances to the ceremonies of drawing things to a close and allowing a little cosmos in […]
A Muslim Convention in a Church? You Better Believe It
Huff Post: Wardah Khalid. Just outside the front doors stood several men holding signs that insulted the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). They had planted themselves there several hours prior to the start of the convention and were making it quite clear that they were vehemently opposed to Islam and any Christians […]
Christians most populous of world’s religions: Report
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: Christians are the world’s biggest religious group, numbering some 2.2 billion people, according to a study released on Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Pew assembled data on the size and geographic distribution of eight major religious groups, including non-believers. It found that […]
‘Jedi’ most popular alternative faith in UK – 4 Million leave Church-Census
Russian TV: ‘Jedi’ is now the most popular faith in the ‘Other Religions’ category in England and Wales. Those identifying with the Star Wars creed outnumber atheists, taking seventh place […]
Divisive nature of religious agenda — Razi Azmi
Daily Times: Any faith is subject to varying interpretations and every faith without exception inherently, and in most cases explicitly, discriminates against followers of other faiths A few years ago, I answered a knock on the door of my house in a Sydney suburb with a large Muslim population to […]
Do All Religions Teach the Same Truth?
Huff Post: Richard Schiffman. The wrong kind of religion convinces its followers that they alone possess the key to Truth. The right kind, according to Vivekananda, helps to make one more compassionate, humbler in the face of the Great Mystery, and tolerant of inevitable human differences. The fact that so […]
Human Hand in Sacred Texts
Huff Post: Joshua Stanton. Whether our religious texts were created by God or by an unending line of thinkers who stitched their earliest forms, it is the human hand that often makes evident the sacredness within them. The word “sacred” is applied so ubiquitously that its meaning is seldom consistent, […]
Atheists and Islam – No God, not even Allah
THE ECONOMIST, Beirut. A MOB attacked Alexander Aan even before an Indonesian court in June jailed him for two and a half years for “inciting religious hatred”. His crime was to write “God does not exist” on a Facebook group he had founded for atheists in Minang, a province of […]
Selection by religion ‘should be banned in state schools’
Telegraph.co.uk Faith schools should be banned from selecting pupils on religious grounds because current admissions rules create community segregation, it is claimed today State-funded Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh schools should be required to treat applications from non-religious families the same as those from believers, according to campaigners. The comments […]
My President is busy
Source: NY Times op ed By Thomas Friedman ISRAELI friends have been asking me whether a re-elected President Obama will take revenge on Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu for the way he and Sheldon Adelson, his foolhardy financier, openly backed Mitt Romney. My answer to Israelis is this: You should be […]
Jerusalem Mayor: Let Jews pray on Temple Mount
The Israel Today: Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat last week said it was time for Israel to finally implement true religious freedom and allow Jews to pray atop the Temple Mount. […]
Public Meeting on World Religious Figures Held in Calicut Kerala
Kerala, India: ‘Divya Smrithi’ – A Public Meeting on World Religious Figures was conducted as part of Kozhikode Zonal Conference 2012 in Kerala, India on Saturday the 3rd of November. By the grace of God, the event was a grand success. It highlighted the noble characters of world religious leaders: Prophet […]
Editorial: Religious Tolerance Needs Legal Backing
The Jakarta Globe: The Islamic Defenders Front has been allowed to take the law into its own hands far too often. On the eve of Idul Adha, dozens of members […]
Religious Affiliation and Sexual Behavior-Muslims, Hindus, Christians and Jews
ScienceDaily (Oct. 17, 2012) — Hindus and Muslims are less likely than Christians and Jews to have premarital sex, and Muslims are the least likely among people of these religious groups to have extramarital sex, according to a new study that analyzed data on premarital and extramarital sexual behaviors in over […]
Whatever Your Religion, We Are All One Family
Huff Post:by Rev. Ed Bacon. A couple of years ago, my church invited a local physician to come talk to our congregation. Aisha is a practicing Muslim. During her talk, […]
What is the Answer to Interfaith Misunderstanding?
Huff Post: by Christine Organ. You don’t need to look far to see all the damage that religious differences can cause. The media is awash with news of violence, anger judgment, anddiscrimination stemming from religious disagreements. We have become so focused on our own religion, our own spirituality, our own faith that we have […]
Defamation of religions
Dawn.com: by Munir Akram (The writer is a former Pakistan ambassador to the UN). THE recent tragic events surrounding the profane and provocative video insulting Islam’s Prophet (PBUH) have again revived tensions between the Islamic world and America and revealed the wide cultural and political gulf between them. This gulf […]