Percentage who say they believe in God with absolute certainty: đŠđČ Armenia: 79% đŹđȘ Georgia: 73 đ§đŠ Bosnia: 66 đ”đ± Poland: 45 đ”đč Portugal: 44 đžđ° Slovakia: 37 đšđ Switzerland: […]
Source: Vox Kenya has been an al-Shabaab target for years. It seems like that will continue, even with US-backed military efforts to defeat the terrorists. A bloody, day-long terrorist attack […]
by Mihir Sharma. Follow @mihirssharma on Twitter India is, and has been since independence in 1947, a liberal secular democracy. Its first generation of leaders resolutely refused to accept the argument of Pakistanâs founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah that the Hindus and the Muslims of the subcontinent represented two different nations. […]
Source: BBC News By Martha Henriques Letâs say your relationship is on the rocks. Youâve been trying to work things out together in couplesâ counselling, but ultimately, you want to […]
Source: BBC News Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto accepted a $100m (ÂŁ77m) bribe from drug cartel kingpin JoaquĂn “El Chapo” GuzmĂĄn, a witness has testified. Alex Cifuentes, who says […]
Source: BBC News By Ian Lloyd Neubauer Image copyrightMONARCH CAKE SHOPImage captionPearl Levine opened Monaco Cake Shop, Melbourne’s first Jewish bakery, in 1931 Australia’s largest Jewish community is found in […]
Source: The Guardian The streets of Xiâanâs Muslim quarter are bustling. Tourists from all over China and the rest of the world throng the small stalls and restaurants for delicacies such as yangrou paomo lamb […]
Source: The Guardian BY Sam Jones in Madrid The devilâs attempt to take up residence in the ancient Spanish city of Segovia has been temporarily thwarted by a group of concerned […]
Source: Religion News Service By Doreen Ajiambo WAJIR, Kenya (RNS) â After the militant group al-Shabab killed three of his colleagues in a recent attack on Christian schoolteachers here, Jared Nyanchongâi […]
Source: BBC News Activists in Russia say there has been a new crackdown against LGBT people in Chechnya. The Russian LGBT Network believes about 40 people have been imprisoned since […]
Source: Reuters BY Jose Devasia KOCHI, India (Reuters) – One of two Indian women who entered an ancient Hindu hill temple in southern India this month in defiance of a […]
Source: Associated Press By EMILY SCHMALL PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) â Thousands of portable toilets line roads constantly swept clean, drinking water flows from newly installed taps, electric substations power a […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Michele Chabin JERUSALEM (RNS) â A work titled âMcJesus,â depicting a crucified Ronald McDonald, at an art museum in Haifa has brought angry calls from […]
Source: The New Yorker By Vinson Cunningham When I was a kid of ten or eleven years old, newly returned to New York after a few years living in Chicago, I […]
Source: BBC News Officially the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is now fully independent of Moscow, but many parishes remain loyal to the Russian patriarch – leading in some cases to […]
Source: The Guardian BY Michael Safi in Prayagraj What does the Kumbh Mela celebrate? The Kumbh Mela is held at the four spots along the Ganges river where, Hindu tradition has it, drops […]
Epigraph: And you shall assuredly find those who say, âWe are Christians,â to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are saints […]
Source: Pew Research Center By David Masci The recent decision by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to split from its Russian counterpart after more than 300 years of being linked reflects […]
Source: The New York Times By Matti Friedman; Contributing Opinion Writer JERUSALEM â If you are reading this, youâve most likely seen much about âthe Israeli-Palestinian conflictâ in the pages […]
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