(RNS) — A series of leaked emails has revived a long-simmering scandal involving defrocked Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, providing new evidence that the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., was disciplined […]
Source: The Economist The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin. By Jonathan Phillips.Yale University Press THE WEST has few Muslim heroes but, astonishingly, a 12th-century jihadist is one of […]
Source: CBC A parliamentary committee exploring online hate descended into chaos this week after a Conservative MP told a Muslim witness he should be “ashamed” after he drew a link between “conservative commentators” and the online history of mosque shooter Alexandre Bissonnette. The eruption happened during Tuesday’s committee hearing, when Conservative MP […]
Christians remained the largest religious group in the world in 2015, making up nearly a third (31%) of Earth’s 7.3 billion people, according to a new Pew Research Center demographic analysis. […]
Gary Younge When we choose we can relive 1066, yet we have wilful amnesia about the shameful events of our recent history @garyyounge Fri 31 May I Immediately after the […]
Source: BBC By Vicky Baker; BBC News in Texas and Alabama Televangelist Todd Coontz has a well-worn routine: he dresses in a suit, pulls out a Bible and urges viewers […]
Do humans have a ‘religion instinct’? Source: BBC By Brandon Ambrosino Are spiritual beliefs an inevitable consequence of evolution? In the second article in a two-part series, Brandon Ambrosino examines […]
Source: the Huffington Post By Charmaine Noronha Unmarried and childless? Congratulations! You might just be among the happier, healthier population, according to a behavioural and happiness expert. That is, if you identify as a woman. Paul Dolan, professor of behavioural science at the London School of Economics, told the Hay […]
By Patrick Dele Cole ISLAM has once changed, tolerating and teaching non moslems: mathematics, physics, astronomy, geometry, music, art – these influences smoothen the rougher edges of any religion. It would seem that Islamic fundamentalism was a revival of aspects of Islam – but that revival should not send us […]
by Selwyn Duke They’re from arguably the most anti-Christian part of the West, and they have a message: A lack of robust Christianity is killing the West. The warning was issued on Herland Report TV, where journalist Hanne Nabintu Herland interviewed fellow Scandinavian Iben Thranholm. “The general theme of the […]
Why old, false claims about Canadian Muslims are resurfacing online By Alex Boutilier In the summer of 2017, signs that seemed engineered to stoke anti-Muslim sentiment first appeared in a city park in Pitt Meadows, B.C. “Many Muslims live in this area and dogs are considered filthy in Islam,” said […]
By Nazar-ul Islam For religious scholars and local visitors, the sight of plants and trees mentioned in the Quran has been uplifting this Ramadan. During the month of Ramadan, the rooms and courtyards of the Jamea Uthmania seminary in Pesahwar, the capital city of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, reverberate with […]
Source: New Scientist Belief in the supernatural is still alive and kicking, even among people who don’t believe in a god. Research on atheists and agnostics around the world has revealed that almost nobody can claim to completely reject irrational beliefs such as life after death, astrology, and the existence […]
Suggested reading Refuting William Lane Craig’s: ‘The Birth of God’ If the Atheists and the Christians Debate, Islam Wins! Debate: Does the Universe have a purpose? Who Created God? John Lennox at The […]
Suggested reading Trinity: An apple cannot be a rock and a monkey at the same time … Video: The most famous Christian apologist, William Lane Craig, accepts there is no Trinity […]
By Larry Slawson Throughout this work, we will examine the reality of demons, according to the Bible. Who are they, and where do these spirits come from? In more recent years, there has been a growing sense of “unbelief” in churches pertaining to the existence of Satan and demon spirits. […]
Source: The Globe &Mail More than two dozen academics at the University of New Brunswick have issued a public letter condemning the views of a controversial sociology professor as “racist and without academic merit.” Ricardo Duchesne, who teaches at UNB’s Saint John campus, has “racist positions on multiculturalism and immigration,” […]
Source: Siasat Laylatul Qadr is better than a thousand months In the Holy Quran Allah (swt) says: “Indeed, We revealed [the Qur’an] during the Night of Decree. And what can make you know what is the Night of Decree? The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. The […]
BEIJING (AP) — China has begun five-day Confucian culture immersion courses for religious leaders in the sage’s hometown as part of a campaign to extend government control over faith communities […]
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