Huff Post: by S. Brent Plate — Humans are needy. We need things: keepsakes, stuff, tokens, tchotchkes, knickknacks, bits and pieces, junk and treasure. We carry special objects in our pockets and purses, or place them on shelves and desks in our homes and offices. As profane and ordinary as the […]
Huff Post — With Carnival here and Mardi Gras right around the corner you might be wondering how a religious holiday could be so fun. Turns out, Carnival isn’t the only wild religious celebration out there. Unlike some of the more sober observances, these religious “party” holidays encourage the uninhibited […]
Huff Post: by Steve McSwain — “What’s the point of human existence?” “Why did people actually show up on earth?” “What is the point of your life?” These are big questions and they are not easily answered. Anyone who answers them quickly is only admitting they have not explored them […]
Huff Post: by Andrew Shwartz, M Div. — There’s a big move by millennials — and Americans in general — to move away from religion. Religion, it seems, is nothing but trouble. Religion seems responsible for war and violence, it continues to be the driving force behind the persecution of […]
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To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page A London court called the church’s leader to account for “false” doctrines—the latest in a […]
Epigraph On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, […]
theguardian: by Mona Chalabi — To measure religious restrictions around the world, the Pew Research Center has attempted to look at government policies and social hostilities. Their findings suggest that religious hostilities are at their highest level since 2007. We’ve mapped all of their results here. Click on the drop down list […]
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Source: The Economist: Theology is losing ground in higher education across western Europe. But in certain specific ways, religion and religious culture have become a very hot campus topic, at British universities in particular. We’re not talking here about religion as a subject for academic study, but about faith as […]
Source: ET ALALPUR: With religious discord seeping in, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Muhammad Yousaf on Saturday said that the government was introducing a code of ethics for religious harmony. Talking to a delegation of religious scholars at Usman bin Affan seminary in Mulstan, he said that terrorists had no […]
The Moscow Times: The Krasnodar Regional Court overturned a local court’s decision to ban a widely read Russian translation of the Quran on Tuesday, quieting fears of unrest among the […]
Huff Post: by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush — 2013 was a huge year for religion news. The transition of power in the Vatican, church state issues in the United States, and religious tension in the Middle East were just a few of the reasons that religion was so often […]
Huff Post: by SEAN MCELWEE — Religion has once again become the “opiate of the people.” But this time, instead of seducing the proletariat into accepting its position in a capitalist society, it lulls atheists into believing that abolishing religion would bring about utopia. The impulse to destroy religion will ultimately […]
Huff Post — Comedian Sarah Silverman may have a rabbi for a sister, but she takes great delight in skewering religion in her stand-up routines. However, she alsoappreciates some aspects of it. She told HuffPost Live: I am Godless, but I’m fascinated by religion. I think there is a lot of […]
Source: Press Release During his October 23 White House meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, USCIRF urges President Obama to raise concerns about the dire religious freedom situation in […]
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – ……………Hajj this year will be brought to you by none other than G4S. This is not the first time that the Saudi government has hired […]
Editor of the Muslim Times for France. Ahmadiyya Muslim community of Val d’oise, France is going to organize an inter religious conference. It will take place on 29th of September […]
Huff Post: by Nikhil Bump. Physiological effects aside, fasting is more than just the physical act of refraining from food. At its core, fasting is discipline of broadening and strengthening, not withholding and waning. It is exercise for our spiritual muscle. As our Jewish brothers and sisters celebrate their High […]
Source: interfax-religion.com What the Church will oppose to the attacks against it, how believers should protect their shrines, whether it is necessary to toughen punishment for insulting religious feelings, what migration […]