The Family: ‘Raised in a doomsday cult, I entered the real world at 15’
Source: BBC By Miriam Annenberg For the first 15 years of his life, Ben Shenton lived in a doomsday cult that thought the world would soon end. Instead the police […]
Contributions of Islam and Confucianism to ethics in 21st century
Source: Malaysiakini This is the full text of the speech delivered by the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Nazrin Shah (above) at the 2nd Malaysia-China Youth Civilizational Dialogue on Islam and […]
Unexpectedly, Leah Remini’s documentary made me feel empathy for famous Scientologists like Tom Cruise
Remini, who was a member of the Scientologist church for years, asks people in the documentary not to dismiss members as naive Clémence Michallon New York @Clemence_Mcl The Independent Voices […]
Pew Research: Asia remains ‘enemy’ of religious freedom
Source: asianews.it The Pew Research Center report states that “in the 2007-2017 decade, government restrictions on religion – laws, policies and actions of state officials that limit religious beliefs and practices – have increased dramatically in the world.” Leading the ranking of countries that impose restrictions on religious freedom are […]
Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community calls for global co-operation and justice to ward off dangers of global war.
Source: Pressahmadiyya.com “IN OUR SELFISH QUEST FOR WEALTH AND POWER, WE ARE RUTHLESSLY DESTROYING THE PROSPECTS OF TODAY’S YOUTH” On Saturday 6 July 2019, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addressed an audience of more than 1,000 dignitaries and […]
NPR Audio: ‘I Couldn’t Continue On’: A Former Jehovah’s Witness On Leaving The Faith
Source: NPR TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Terry Gross. I want to read you the headline of an op-ed in The New York Times that recently caught […]
Muslim World League chief in plea for ‘civilized leadership’
SPA April 06, 2019 Al-Issa calls for ‘enlightened vision’ to tackle global issues ST. PETERSBURG, Russia: Cooperation between nations and peoples depends on “civilized leadership” and adherence to common values, […]
BE MORE OPEN: to combat extremism Muslim leader urges UK mosques amid radicalisation fears
UK MOSQUES should be more open and transparent and UK authorities should monitor places of worship to help tackle extremism, a senior Imam of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community has argued. […]
BBC ‘Year of Beliefs’ to shine light on faith and values in modern UK
Source: Guardian By Harriet Sherwood; Religion correspondent Series of programmes to tackle topics such as science, religion, LGBT+ and medical ethics The BBC is launching a year-long series of programmes examining faith, […]
What’s coming for religion in 2019? Here’s what the experts predict.
(RNS) — This year saw wave after wave of new revelations about the extent of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis. It saw deadly hate crimes, the explosion of state-sponsored persecution against China’s Uighur Muslims, major #MeToo moments in a slew of congregations and faith communities, critical milestones for religious minorities […]
America’s New Religions
nymag.com: Everyone has a religion. It is, in fact, impossible not to have a religion if you are a human being. It’s in our genes and has expressed itself in every culture, in every age, including our own secularized husk of a society. By religion, I mean something quite specific: a practice […]
Ghamidi’s Urdu Interview: Rationality Versus Orthodoxy in Islam?
Suggested reading Do Muslims Prefer Camels Over Modern Cars? Reason or Orthodoxy: Which One Should Rule? The Holy Quran and the Seventh Century Arabian Metaphors Is God Alive or Dead: A Metaphor for […]
Religion: why faith is becoming more and more popular
The Guardian: Faith is on the rise and 84% of the global population identifies with a religious group. What does it mean for the future? How many believers are there around the world? If you think religion belongs to the past and we live in a new age of reason, you […]
SYMPOSIUM: Do Religious Scriptures bring harmony or evoke conflict?
The Center for Pluralism is pleased to present a symposium as a side event in conjunction with the Department of States’ 2018 Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom. to present a […]
Jews, Muslims in Berlin team up on bike rides against hatred
Source: Fox News Some 25 Jews and Muslims teamed up on tandem bicycle rides through the German capital on Sunday in a protest against growing anti-Semitism and attacks on Muslims […]
Religious leaders explore link between faith, development, humanitarian work
By Ana V. Ibáñez Prieto – Mar 21,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Prince Hassan, Grand Mufti Mohammad Khalayleh, Bishop Elias Toume, KAICIID Senior Adviser Mohamed Abu Nimer, German Deputy Ambassador Ralf […]
Religious harmony in Cuba
Source: AlJazeera By Ura Iturralde After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, religious practices on the island nation were targeted, but the Cuban government later opted for a more conciliatory approach, […]
Indonesian court recognizes native religions in landmark ruling
Source: Reuters By Tom Allard, Jessica Damiana 4 MIN READ JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday affirmed the rights of devotees of faiths outside the country’s officially recognized religions, […]
Why this Muslim-turned-Christian speaker resonated with so many before his death at 34
Source: The Washington Post By Ravi Zacharias Nabeel Qureshi, who was raised in a Muslim American family before converting to Christianity. (Photo courtesy of RZIM) The first time I saw him, he sat at a table across from me, one of his legs constantly moving almost subconsciously, as though he was […]
This atheist map of the world is fascinating
by Joe Vesey-Byrne in discover Data: WIN/Gallup International. PICTURE: INDY100/DATAWRAPPER 62 per cent of people on earth define themselves as religious. This is according to the WIN/Gallup International poll for 2016, published in mid 2017. The study surveyed citizens of 68 countries. In addition, many people held religious beliefs […]