How I let drinking take over my life
Source: The Guardian I had my last drink five years ago, in the early hours of the morning on 1 January 2013. I think it might have been around 2am. I […]
Largest group of Mennonite churches leaves denomination
Source : Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston | January 2, 2018 (RNS) — The Lancaster Mennonite Conference, the largest group of Mennonite congregations in the U.S., has officially separated from the broader Mennonite […]
Ancient Rome’s sinful city at the bottom of the sea
Source: BBC News By Adrienne Bernhard Rome’s ultra-wealthy took weekend trips here to party. Powerful statesmen built luxurious villas on its beach, with heated spas and mosaic-tiled pools where they […]
Is Germany’s new hate speech law killing press freedom?
Source: CNN by Ivana Kottasová Germany’s tough new social media law was meant to rid Twitter and Facebook of hateful and illegal content. But critics say that at just 96 […]
Eating fish improves kids’ IQ scores and sleep, study says
Source: CNN By Susan Scutti, CNN (CNN)Children who eat fish once a week or more sleep better and score higher, on average, on IQ tests than children who never eat […]
Public School Ends Bible Giveaway Tradition After Humanists File Complaint
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Religion Reporter, HuffPost “Anyone … can see that the purpose of this is to promote Christianity,” said a lawyer for the legal branch of […]
What others say: The Ismaili Imamat’s Guidance against Drinking Alcohol
Posted on September 5, 2014 by Ismaili Gnostic The Imam’s word on the Faith is taken as an absolute rule. Every Ismaili is expected to accept it. Imam Shah Karim […]
Onstage, a revealing perspective of Muslim women
Source: The Boston Globe By Christopher Wallenberg Rohina Malik was attending a friend’s wedding some 15 years ago when the realities of post-9/11 America rocked her world. A Chicago-based theater […]
Turkish child marriage religious document sparks anger
Source: BBC News Turkey’s main opposition party has called for a parliamentary inquiry after the directorate of religious affairs said that, under Islamic law, girls as young as nine could […]
Q&A: Are the Koreas on the Verge of a Diplomatic Breakthrough?
Source: Time By FOSTER KLUG / AP (SEOUL) — After one of the most fraught years on the Korean Peninsula in recent memory — threats of war amid North Korea’s strongest-ever […]
The changing buzzwords of business books
Source: BBC News By Miriam Quick Unlock your potential. Turbocharge your productivity. Transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. These are just some of the bombastic guarantees of self-help book titles, […]
Film review: All the money in the world
Source: BBC News By Nicholas Barber 4 January 2018 Ridley Scott’s true-life kidnap drama, All the Money in the World, is destined to go down in cinema history as the […]
Alcohol can cause irreversible genetic damage to stem cells, says study
Source: The Guardian BY Hannah Devlin Science correspondent Link between drinking and cancer clarified by study which indicates alcohol causes cancer by scrambling DNA in cells, eventually leading to mutations Just one […]
Anti-sharia laws proliferate as Trump strikes hostile tone toward Muslims
Source: The Guardian BY Ed Pilkington in New York Twenty-three bills have been introduced in 18 state legislatures this year to ban the practice of Islamic law – critics say the aim is to spread fear about Muslims People demonstrate against allowing an Islamic community center near Ground Zero at a rally […]
New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow
Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED Muslims at a 2017 prayer service celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. (John Moore/Getty Images) Recent political debates over […]
Why Turkey’s president was among thousands in Konya paying homage to Rumi
Source: The Washington Post By Erin Cunningham KONYA, Turkey — Nestled in Turkey’s Anatolian heartland, Konya is both an economic boomtown and a bastion of conservatism — a modern Turkish city with deep Islamic […]
My father, the Catholic priest who doesn’t want to know me
Source: BBC News By Sarah McDermott BBC World Service At the age of 12, Sarah Thomas found out that her father – who she’d never known – was a Roman […]
If Religion is about Spiritual Salvation, Why do We Need Queen Bees?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Catholic Church does not allow women priests and hardly any Muslim group or sect allows for women […]
Ethiopia to release political prisoners, says prime minister
Source: BBC News In a surprise move, Ethiopia’s prime minister has announced the release of political prisoners and the closure of a notorious detention centre, allegedly used as a torture […]
Eric Garner death inspires an unlikely police experiment
Source: BBC News A debate continues to rage over police use of force, with officers seeing incidents very differently to civilians. What happens when the two sides are forced to […]