The internet as religious experience
Source: BBC News By Amol Rajan For most of recent human history, by which I mean the last few millennia, social organisation has been rooted in practical faith. Religion, which departs […]
Exclusive: India’s ruling party to revive plan for Hindu settlements in Kashmir
Source: Reuters BY Devjyot Ghoshal, Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) – India’s ruling party will revive a plan to build secured camps to resettle scores of Hindus in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley, […]
Archbishop of Canterbury calls for mandatory reporting of sexual abuse
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The archbishop of Canterbury has thrown his weight behind calls for the government to make the reporting of sexual abuse of children and […]
Catholic Church Offers Cash to Settle Abuse Claims—With a Catch
Source: Wall Street Journal By Ian Lovett SCRANTON, Pa.—Four decades ago, Jimmy Pliska says, he was sexually assaulted by his local parish priest on an overnight fishing trip. Now, he has […]
VA secretary changes rules to allow displaying of religious symbols
Source: CNN Washington (CNN) Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie issued new policies Wednesday allowing religious symbols to be publicly displayed in VA facilities nationwide. “Effective July 3, these changes […]
China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families
Source: BBC News By John Sudworth BBC News, Xinjiang China is deliberately separating Muslim children from their families, faith and language in its far western region of Xinjiang, according to […]
Buddhists Go to Battle: When Nationalism Overrides Pacifism
Source: New York Times By Hannah Beech GINTOTA, Sri Lanka — The Buddhist abbot was sitting cross-legged in his monastery, fulminating against the evils of Islam, when the petrol bomb exploded […]
Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo address Christian pro-Israel summit
Source: Religion News Service BY Jack Jenkins (RNS) — Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo both addressed a Christian pro-Israel group Monday (July 8), lifting […]
Principal Who Tried to Stay ‘Politically Neutral’ About Holocaust Is Removed
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Mervosh A high school principal in Florida has been removed from his position over his refusal to state that the Holocaust was a factual […]
Florida county cannot ban invocations by atheists: U.S. appeals court
Source: Reuters By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday declared a Florida county’s ban on atheists and other non-religious groups from giving invocations before public meetings unconstitutional, […]
British Museum to explore Islamic world’s impact on western art
Source: The Guardian Major exhibition aims to show Orientalism in a different light and its legacy today By Mark Brown, Arts correspondent An art tradition sometimes dismissed as perpetuating lazy […]
As a refugee in one of Libya’s dangerous detention centres, I know what it feels like when the world leaves you behind
In the eyes of the guards that lord over us, we left our human dignity and respect behind when we attempted to seek safety. Not only are we scared and starving, but the threat of another attack looms over us every day Mario Malie The Independent Voices I am […]
II was almost forced into marriage – here’s why the government’s crackdown is missing the mark
To eliminate forced marriage we have to understand what really drives parents to abuse their own children Adeem Younis @adeem_younis The Independent Voices Forced marriage is an awful crime, […]
New statistics confirm what we already knew – Islamophobia is thriving in all parts of British society
The Muslim Times is intellectually leading the way to refute Islamophobia and racism 31 per cent of the population believe that Islam poses a threat to the British way of […]
The US is quietly waging war in Somalia – and Trump has made it worse
After all, the militant groups al-Shabaab and the Islamic State in Somalia (ISS) pose no threat to the US. They’re actually fighting each other. But apparently the president hasn’t grasped […]
We asked 12 Canadian premiers about Quebec’s controversial secularism law.
Source: National Observer By Emilee Gilpin & Fatima Syed Last week, Asiyah Robinson, a 22-year-old Muslim woman, presented an impassioned speech that woke the ghosts of an otherwise eerily stoic […]
Too much time on social media can increase symptoms of depression among teens, study suggests
Source: CTV Spending too much time on social media or watching television is linked to increased symptoms of depression among teens, a new study suggests. Researchers conducted a four-year study […]
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern condemns Donald Trump’s attack on US congresswomen
The Muslim Times is intellectually leading the way to refute Islamophobia and racism Source: RNZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has condemned comments made by the US President attacking four Democratic […]
If organised mainstream Christianity is on the way out, what will replace it?
Source: The Guardian’s Editorial The latest British Social Attitudes survey paints a picture of organised religion’s continued decline; the more organised it tries to be, the faster it slips. The Church […]
Trump Is a Racist. If You Still Support Him, So Are You.
Source: Daily Beast By Goldie Taylor The president is a racist, in his words and his actions. Before you go clutching your pearls and extolling the virtues of “civility,” let […]