Source: Religion News Service By Nicole Einbinder and Emily Churchill AHMEDABAD, India (RNS) Dosa vendor Sunil Gagnath Sabkale watches over a fragile Buddhist temple across the street from a market […]
Source: USA Today BY Caroline Glenn, Florida Today MELBOURNE, Fla. — Ninth-graders in Brevard County will keep using a world history textbook, despite fierce debate over its chapter on Islam. The […]
Source: Reuters By Laila Kearney | HUNTINGTON, N.Y. At a Roman Catholic high school in New York’s Long Island suburbs, two dozen visiting Muslim students knelt and prayed while teens […]
Source: Associated Press By SAM HANANEL WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in the nation’s capital said Thursday she won’t act on a request to block President Donald Trump’s revised […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Vice President Pence sought on Thursday to reassure Christian leaders looking for the White House to focus more on the plight of persecuted Christians […]
Henry S. Walace May 12, 2017 Seventy-three years ago, The New York Times asked the sitting vice president to write an article about whether there are fascists in America, and what they’re up to. It was an alarming question. And the vice president took it quite seriously. His article, “The Danger […]
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMMAY 11, 2017 NYTimes President Trump is perhaps the world’s most powerful television addict. And like any TV fan, he has strong opinions about what he watches. In a series of caustic criticisms this week, Mr. Trump laced into on-air stars like the CNN news anchor Don Lemon […]
Triple Talaq Case: 5 Supreme Court Judges of 5 Faiths Begin Hearings At hearing on triple talaq, Supreme Court said polygamy among Muslims may not be part of deliberations. —– – See more at: http://www.newageislam.com/islamic-world-news/triple-talaq-case–5-supreme-court-judges-of-5-faiths-begin-hearings/d/111111#sthash.qUyAthRp.dpuf Edited by Aloke Tikku | Updated: May 11, 2017 NEW DELHI: The country’s five seniormost […]
The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles about Religion & Science https://t.co/iH3XiH0UGB pic.twitter.com/FirrYmJ4an — The Muslim Times (@The_MuslimTimes) January 22, 2017 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Written and collected by Zia H […]
Source: Guardian By Susan Carland, who is a lecturer in Monash University’s National Centre for Australian Studies Islam’s patriarchy and western feminism have said a lot. Now Muslim women who fight […]
Three Presiding Judges in Ahok Blasphemy Trial Receive Promotions Jakarta. Three of the panel of five judges who presided in Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama’s blasphemy trial in the North Jakarta District Court, have been promoted. Dwiarso Budi Santiarto, who headed the panel, was appointed as a judge in the Denpasar High Court in […]
Jakarta. Tears streamed down the face of Nana Riwayatie as she spoke about the fate of her adoptive brother, Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, in front of a crowd of his supporters on Wednesday (10/05). Just a day earlier, the court sentenced the embattled Jakarta governor to two years in prison […]
Source: BBC By Philippa RoxbyHealth reporter, BBC News Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a study in The Lancet […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Lengthy historic investigations. Decrees of “heroic virtues.” Miraculous cures. The Vatican’s complicated saint-making process has long fascinated Catholics and non-Catholics […]
Source: NPR BY ADAM FRANK When discussions about science and religion turn into debates about science versus religion, Buddhism mostly gets a pass. Thanks to the work of the Dalai Lama […]
Source: Reuters By Ed Davies | JAKARTA Jakarta’s once hugely popular governor is being held in a simple room at a high-security detention centre, his only comforts a Bible and […]
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Hannah Allam The invitation seemed like no big deal: Would Muslim students at Duke University like to give their call to prayer from the chapel bell […]
Source: BBC India’s Supreme Court has formally opened hearings into a number of petitions challenging the controversial practice of instant divorce in Islam. The court said it would examine whether […]
Source: Tribune WELLINGTON: New Zealand plans to scrap the crime of blasphemy after calls from across the political spectrum for reform in response to an Irish investigation into British comic […]
Source: BBC India unveiled the world’s biggest solar farm earlier this year and has quadrupled its solar capacity in the last three years, bringing electricity to millions of off-grid households. […]