Source: BBC Former US first lady Michelle Obama has ended Hillary Clinton’s 17-year run as America’s most admired woman. Mrs Clinton, ex-presidential candidate, secretary of state and first lady, came third in the annual Gallup poll, with talk-show host Oprah Winfrey in second. The Queen finished in the top 10 […]
Source: CT New research suggests that Americans with poor physical health and low socioeconomic status are particularly inclined to look to the Bible for insights into attaining “health and wealth”— an aspect of prosperity gospel teaching—even though doing so often ends up making them feel worse. “At first glance, it […]
Source: The Washington Post By Chico Harlan December 25 COLLEPARDO, Italy — Inside the stone walls of the Trisulti monastery, for more than eight centuries, monks have lived in quiet seclusion, praying, […]
Source: The New York Times By Robert D. McFadden Sister Wendy Beckett, a Roman Catholic nun who interrupted a cloistered life of prayer in England in 1991 and soared to […]
Source: The Guardian By John Vidal On the evening of 7 August 2018, a KLM charter flight left Amsterdam, landing 11 hours later at Kilimanjaro airport in northern Tanzania. Its young occupants […]
Source: CT “Blasphemy is a serious offense,” wrote judge Asif Khosa, “but the insult of the appellant’s religion … was also not short of being blasphemous.” He referenced a 2013 book by John Morrow, a Canadian convert to Islam. The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the […]
Source: The Guardian BY Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Bangkok Every morning at dawn, the food is dished out to Thailand’s monks in abundance: donations of sticky rice, cakes, noodles, sweet pudding, dumplings, […]
Source: Religion News Service EL KOSHEH, Egypt (RNS) — This Coptic Christian village about 280 miles south of Cairo calls itself “Little Jerusalem.” Around this time of year, many of the […]
Source: CT Over the Christmas holiday, many of us will likely spend the holiday with friends and family celebrating around gifts, festive trees, and a feast. We’ll be reminded of the joys of being surrounded by loved ones and hopefully we’ll pause to reflect on all the many blessings in […]
Source: The Guardian BY Patrick Wintourand Harriet Sherwood The foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has ordered an independent, global review into the persecution of Christians of all nationalities amid claims that not enough […]
Source: Dawn In his 2003 book Uncensored, former general manager of PTV, Burhanuddin Hasan wrote that after coming to power in July 1977, one ‘advice’ which Gen Zia issued to PTV was that TV plays (and films) should always depict clerics in a positive light. The advice had been triggered […]
Source: National Catholic Reporter By Joshua J. McElwee ROME — Three former members of Pope Francis’ commission on clergy sexual abuse are calling on the pontiff’s February Vatican summit on child protection […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — It has been a wretched year for Pope Francis, whose blind spot on clergy sex abuse conspired with events beyond […]
Source: NPR BY VIRGINIA ALVINO YOUNG 2018 has been an explosive year for the Catholic Church, with renewed revelations of clergy sexual abuse and cover up from one coast to […]
Source and Pictures: Jinah Ud Din Saif of Kosovo This is unique with Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat all over the world to organise Seeratun Nabi (saw) days. During these programs various programs are conducted to high light the unique and noble characteristics of the great prophet of Islam Hazrat Muhammad (Peace […]
Source: The Conversation By Jerry Coyne; Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago As the West becomes more and more secular, and the discoveries of evolutionary biology and cosmology […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Muslims, generally speaking, believe in the existence of the unseen world, which generally includes besides Allah, angels, […]
Daoud Kuttab December 24, 2018 Trump’s proposal, though not yet made public, is being met with skepticism due to his pro-Israel bias “There’s nothing on the horizon to suggest […]
After visiting American troops in Iraq, Trump left the country without meeting any Iraqi officials. (AFP) AP December 27, 2018 Politicians from both sides of Iraq’s political divide are […]
Dec 26,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN The latest US misadventure in Syria appears to be coming to an end. When, last week, Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of […]