Nuns in India tell AP of enduring abuse in Catholic church
Source: Associated Press By TIM SULLIVAN KURAVILANGAD, India (AP) — The stories spill out in the sitting rooms of Catholic convents, where portraits of Jesus keep watch and fans spin […]
Conflict That Helped Spur Israeli Election Resounds Among Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Source: Wall Street Journal By Felicia Schwartz and Dov Lieber TEL AVIV—The Israeli culture clash that helped to precipitate the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition in December is […]
Europe’s Right Wing Woos a New Audience: Jewish Voters
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Bojan Pancevski December 31, 2018 BERLIN—Emanuel Bernhard Krauskopf’s trips to his synagogue in the German capital have become an awkward affair. The reason: Mr. […]
Evangelicals Seek Detente With Mideast Muslim Leaders As Critics Doubt Motives
Source: NPR By JEROME SOCOLOVSKY In recent months, evangelical Christian leaders have been traveling to the Middle East to meet with rulers of Islamic countries and with Muslim clergy. The […]
Protests break out in India after two women enter temple
Source: The Guardian BY Amrit Dhillon in Delhi Protests have broken out in the Indian state of Kerala, where groups of angry traditionalists waving black flags blocked traffic and staged demonstrations […]
Vatican spokesman, deputy, resign over strategy differences
Source: Reuters BY Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican spokesman and his deputy resigned on Monday over disagreements on strategy, ending a year of upheaval in the Holy […]
Israel’s Jewish Home party splits ahead of April election
Source: Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A religious-nationalist party in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government split on Saturday, with its leaders saying they were bolting to appeal to more […]
What’s coming for religion in 2019? Here’s what the experts predict.
Source: Religion News Service BY Aysha Khan (RNS) — This year saw wave after wave of new revelations about the extent of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis. It saw deadly […]
China’s Gulag for Muslims
Source: The New York Times By Mustafa Akyol One of the darkest episodes of the 20th century was the gulag — the Soviet system of forced labor camps where dissidents were […]
Migrants who saved lives in Attica wildfire granted Greek citizenship
3 January 2019 Twitter: @NeosKosm Three migrant fishermen have been recognised for their heroic efforts, after rescuing dozens of Greeks during the devastating wildfire that broke out in […]
Video Debate: Is There Meaning to Life? | William Lane Craig, Rebecca Goldstein, Jordan Peterson – Toronto 2018
Epigraph: God created the heavens and the earth for a true purpose: to reward each soul according to its deeds. They will not be wronged. (Al Quran 45:22/23) And We […]
Prof. Bart Ehrman’s Freedom From Religion Foundation Lecture
Here’s Bart Ehrman’s Freedom From Religion Foundation Lecture in Raleigh, NC in 2014. Suggested reading and viewing 24 Video lectures: The Great Courses: How Jesus Became God?
Malmö Imam: ‘We do not hate mosque shooter’
The Local news@thelocal.se @thelocalsweden 2 January 2019 A shot was fired through a glass door at a Malmö’s Mahmood Ahmadiyya mosque, shortly after midnight on New Years’ Day, with police […]
The Decade-Long U.S. Campaign To Foment Syria’s “Revolution” And Unseat Assad
As the US prepares to pull out of Syria, we revisit Sarah Abed’s account of the US campaign to foment regime change in the country.” December 29th, 2018 By Sarah […]
Afghanistan> US to Extract Minerals From Afghanistan to ‘Defray Cost of US Assistance’
The U.S. military has had its eyes on Afghan mineral deposits for some time. A 2007 Pentagon memo that the New York Times quoted in a 2010 article says that […]
Zabeen Hirji: Prepare now for the workforce of the future
Posted on December 28, 2018 By Zabeen Hirji, Stephen Harrington If the idea of artificial intelligence (AI) conjures visions of robots taking over human jobs, this is not surprising. It […]
Book Review of Mansoor Ladha’s Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West
28 December 2018 By NIZAR MOTANI ________________________________________________________ Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West By Mansoor Ladha, 252 pp. University of Regina Press, CDN$ 23.15 (at Amazon), […]
Exclusive: For Bangladesh PM, authoritarian tag is ‘badge of honour’, son says on poll eve
Dec 30, 2018 – Law enforcement officials carry electronic voting materials as they distribute them to different voting centre ahead of 11th general election which will be held on December […]
From New York to New Zealand: Muslim Youths help clean up the streets
Tuesday, 1 January 2019, Press Release: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association Following the New Year’s Eve celebrations, thousands of Muslim youth around the world will be ushering in […]
Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls to help drought-hit Afghanistan
Arab News December 31, 2018 The resolution reiterated the organization’s commitment to providing all forms of support to mitigate the sufferings of the Afghan people JEDDAH: The Organization […]