By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Making use of modern information and social media in promoting dialogue between the followers of different religious faiths and cultures is the theme of an international interfaith dialogue conference that was opened in Doha on Monday. Speakers emphasized the importance of dialogue […]
TOKYO — It is said that a Japanese person is born Shinto, marries Christian and dies Buddhist, but really it’s an oversimplification. As a social experiment, find a personals site where Japanese can select their religion from a list. You’ll see that a great deal select “agnostic.” On top of […]
It’s true that atheists are by definition godless, but it’s possible to draw a subtle distinction between the two concepts. Atheism is the absence of belief in gods; godlessness is the absence of gods and is generally defined as not recognizing or worshipping any gods. Technically, a person could believe […]
By Reem Abdellatif/Daily News Egypt October 9, 2011, 9:16 pm CAIRO: Clashes between protesters and army forces turned fatal on Sunday, leaving at least 19 dead and 100 injured, according to Egyptian state TV, as violence escalated in central Cairo. Earlier, Egyptian state TV had reported that three soldiers were […]
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweeden FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-139-2011 October 7, 2011 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: The principals of the schools obey the instructions of Mullahs to rusticate the Ahmadi students The government has still not taken any action against the cases of rustication of […]
By Benjamin Bidder in Bolshaya Elnya, Russia, SPIEGEL ONLINE Mother Fotina once led a “Center for Cosmo-Energetic Medicine,” and now she prays to Vladimir Putin. Her sect, in a village east of Moscow, honors Russia’s once and future president as a reincarnation of St. Paul. The group represents a rising […]
China’s ancient sage is helping the country propagate its language and culture abroad. An institute named after Confucius is sowing the seeds of better understanding and better communication with the world, throughout the world. Mike Peters and Zhang Chunyan take a closer look at the Confucius Institute abroad. Source / […]
Is Islam for Germany and Separation of Mosque-Church and State? Source / Courtesy: The Review of Religions On the 2nd Day of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Germany’s Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) on 25th June 2011, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba), Khalifatul Masih V, Fifth Successor to the Promised Messiah(as) and Head of the worldwide […]
A Jordan-based group is threatening to file a lawsuit against Israel in the International Criminal Court over its opening of the baptismal site Qasr al-Yahud near the Jordan River. The group, which calls itself “The Arab Union to Resist the Expulsion of Arab Christians”, is headed by the speaker of […]
France24. By Tony Todd (text) A French businessman has set up a fund to pay fines for women who wear Islamic veils or the burqa in public “in whatever country in the world that bans women from doing so”. Rachid Nekkaz, 38, a real-estate businessman based in Paris, travelled to Belgium on Wednesday to pay […]
Soruce/Credit dailytimes Religious knowledge is in continuous flux. We can have general moral values and principles, which can stay constant, but how we apply them in terms of politics, means that institutions must continually change to keep pace with social developments What is ‘fundamentalism’ and why is it so widespread? […]
Some of the finest new art works influenced by the Islamic tradition of design are on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. They are all nominated for the £25,000 ($40,000) Jameel Prize which is given to contemporary works inspired by Islamic art. The winner will be announced in September. […]
The Sikh community in Lahore have been prevented from observing a religious celebration at a gurdwara, their musical equipment thrown out and their entry barred, after a religious group persuaded the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) that celebrating the Muslim holy day of Shab-e-Barat was more important than the Sikh […]
by Jonathan Turley – International Herald Tribune. SINCE the Supreme Court’s 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas, Americans have enjoyed unprecedented freedom in their lifestyles and private relationships. The decision held that states could no longer use the criminal code for social engineering, dictating the most intimate decisions of citizens […]
Source: Asiatimes on Line. During the 2010 mid-term election campaign, virtually every hard-charging candidate on the far right took a moment to trash a Muslim, a mosque, or Islamic pieties. In the wake of those elections, with 85 new Republican House members and a surging Tea Party movement, the political virtues […]