Source: The Local A man who injured five people in an apparent xenophobic attack on New Year’s Eve was mentally ill. He told police that the many foreigners in Germany was ‘a problem he wanted to solve’. DPA reported early on Wednesday that the man had previously been admitted to […]
Source: The Washington Post By Rick Noack December 28, 2018 BERLIN — When Germans file their annual tax returns, religion matters a great deal. If you’re Catholic, tax authorities will likely […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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), […]
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 […]