January 17, 2019 By Besheer Mohamed and Jeff Diamant This is one of an occasional series of posts on black Americans and religion. Even in the early 20th century, […]
Jun 18, 2019 By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese government’s top diplomat warned on Tuesday that the world should not open a “Pandora’s Box” in the Middle East, […]
Source: BBC News By Bryan Lufkin Would you ever set up home in someone else’s garage? Or let a stranger move in to yours? More and more people are asking, […]
Source: The New York Times By Elizabeth Dias Evangelical churches have long distanced themselves from the sexual abuse crisis that has consumed the Catholic Church. But a reckoning has arrived. HURST, Tex. — Christi Bragg listened in disbelief. It was a Sunday in February, and her popular evangelical pastor, Matt Chandler, […]
Source: Slate By Ruth Graham The capital of California was named for a river that was in turn named for the Catholic sacrament of the Eucharist. So it’s notable that […]
Source: Associated Press By David Crary As the Roman Catholic church’s sex abuse scandal grows ever wider in scope in the U.S., bishops convene for a national meeting in Baltimore […]
Source: Associated Press By DAVID CRARY The Southern Baptist Convention gathers for its annual national meeting Tuesday with one sobering topic — sex abuse by clergy and staff — overshadowing […]
14th June 2019 Nations are engaged in yet another war, known as the trade war, not only with their neighbours but with various other countries as well. These rising economic […]
Suggested reading: North Carolina man sentenced to life after pleading guilty to the 2015 murders of 3 Muslim college students We have saved the above video in the Muslim Times’ as […]
Source: CNN (CNN) A North Carolina man was sentenced Wednesday to three terms of life in prison for shooting and killing three of his neighbors, all Muslim students, in the college […]
America has spent $5.9 trillion on wars in the Middle East and Asia since 2001, a new study says Source: CNBC Key Points The U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria […]
Issue Number Volume 27 – Issue 6 – June 2019 An interview with Mubashir Mumtaz, MD. We speak with Dr. Mubashir Mumtaz, Chief of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Surgical […]
12:59 13.06.2019 On Thursday morning, reports emerged that two tankers were damaged near the Strait of Hormuz. It comes at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East […]
While slavery would be reviled by secular and religious interests, slaves themselves finally overthrew it Fri, Jun 7, 2019, James Walvin Frederick Douglass, the towering figure in the history of […]
Source: ET “They (our relations) are going downhill, they are getting worse and worse,” Putin told the Mir TV channel, according to a Kremlin transcript. “The current administration has approved, in my opinion, several dozen decisions on sanctions against Russia in recent years.” The Russian leader contrasted Moscow’s troubled relationship […]
When Americans say they believe in God, what do they mean? https://t.co/oiqaJheIzA pic.twitter.com/XLRzgF52xr — Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) June 13, 2019 Suggested reading Refuting William Lane Craig’s: ‘The Birth of God’ […]
Source: Pew Research Center More than 15 years after U.S. bishops pledged “zero tolerance” for sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests, reports of previously unpublicized misconduct continue to receive wide media coverage. A Pennsylvania grand jury last year uncovered decades of sexual abuse and coverup by Catholic leaders, and […]
Suggested reading Who’s Afraid of Arabic Numerals? Book Review: Muhammad: An anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment The Spaniards rediscovering their nation’s long-lost Islamic heritage Taj Mahal is Not Only a Symbol for […]