A New Youtube Channel for Quran and Science
Suggested reading A New Commentary of the Holy Quran Emphasizing Compassion, Justice and Human Rights Launched Did Eve Come from Adam’s Rib — That is the Question? Does science really prove the Quran?
The man-made humanitarian disaster in Yemen continues
MERYEM İLAYDA ATLAS @miailayda Children displaced from the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah stand in their shelter in Sana’a, Yemen, Nov. 1. The people of Yemen are struggling to […]
The Qur’an: A Very Serious Book for Those Who Have Knowledge
Suggested reading A New Commentary of the Holy Quran Emphasizing Compassion, Justice and Human Rights Launched
Blowback from unintended consequences of Bush’s 1991 war continues
Dec 05,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN George H.W. Bush, who died last Saturday at the age of 94, has been lauded as a great US president, a humble patrician […]
These are the cities that will dominate the global economy in the next 15 years
Despite the west’s experience of managing the process of urbanisation, it doesn’t have all the answers Hamish McRae @TheIndyBusiness The Independent Voices New York will continue to be the world’s largest urban economy in 2035, but Jakarta will have passed Tokyo to become the most populous city. However, […]
Book Review: Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
Source: Amazon By Dalai Lama “A book that brings people together on the firm grounds of shared values, reminding us why the Dalai Lama is still one of the most […]
Ted Talk: We Can Be Buddhas
Additional Reading Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran A Message of Compassion and Love from the Holy Bible True Fasting: A Message of Compassion and Love from […]
Meditation: All It Takes is 10 Mindful Minutes
Transcription of Ted Talk Translated by Joseph Geni Reviewed by Morton Bast 00:12 We live in an incredibly busy world. The pace of life is often frantic, our minds are […]
Playing the Islamic card ahead of elections, again?: The Jakarta Post
In its editorial, the paper shares its concern over election campaigns building up along sectarian lines, instead of candidate track records. JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – […]
Ted Talk: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment
When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the […]
American Poll Favoring Pluralism
Share of Americans who say: ▪️ “If America is too open to people from around the world, we risk losing our identity as a nation” 𝟐𝟔% ▪️ “America’s openness to […]
Sir David Attenborough: Climate change ‘our greatest threat’
Source: BBC News By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, Katowice The naturalist Sir David Attenborough has said climate change is humanity’s greatest threat in thousands of years. The broadcaster said it […]
In China, Gene-Edited Babies Are the Latest in a String of Ethical Dilemmas
Source: The New York Times By Sui-Lee Wee and Elsie Chen BEIJING — First it was a proposal to transplant a head to a new body. Then it was the world’s first cloned primates. Now […]
Be celibate or leave the priesthood, pope tells gay priests
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and it would be better for priests who […]
Anger over pork sausages at Germany Islam event
Source: BBC News Germany’s Interior Ministry has said it regrets serving pork sausage at a conference on Islam in Berlin earlier this week. The ministry said the food selection had […]
Sacked vegan claims discrimination in landmark case
Source: BBC News By Clive Coleman A tribunal is to be asked to decide whether veganism is a “philosophical belief” akin to a religion, in a landmark legal action. Jordi […]
Pakistan clerics in blasphemy case to face treason charges
Source: Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani minister says the detained Islamic clerics who disrupted daily life with rallies across Pakistan following the acquittal of a Christian woman in […]
Ukraine: Leader pledges church choice for Orthodox faithful
Source: Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president has promised the country’s Orthodox Christian faithful they will be free to remain part of the Russian Orthodox Church after the […]
How Hanukkah came to America
Source: The Conversation Hanukkah may be the best known Jewish holiday in the United States. But despite its popularity in the U.S., Hanukkah is ranked one of Judaism’s minor festivals, […]
More than 30,000 Indian-American Sikhs have entered the trucking industry in 2 years
Source: CBS News LARAMIE, Wyoming — Here’s what you might expect to see driving I-80 near Laramie, Wyoming: long stretches of highway framed by rolling hills and trucker after trucker making […]