Source: Religion News Service By Meagan Clark and Vishal Arora DHARAMSHALA, India (RNS) — Tibetan Buddhist monks from around the world are gearing up to discuss whether the aging Dalai […]
Source: NPR BY Diaa Hadid When at 19 Mehnaz became pregnant for the fifth time, she panicked. She already had four daughters, and her husband was threatening to throw her […]
Source: Reuters BY Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A group of Jewish Americans sued Airbnb Inc on Wednesday in U.S. federal court, accusing the home rental company of religious discrimination over […]
Source: USA Today BY Oliver Thomas and Charles C. Haynes, Opinion contributors In the turbulent 1960s, John Courtney Murray famously reminded Americans that the Constitution begins with “we the, people,” […]
Source: National Review BY MADELEINE KEARNS People walk through an exhibit at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters). Suggested reading: If the Atheists and the Christians Debate, […]
Reza Aslan (Persian: رضا اصلان, IPA: [ˈɾezɒː æsˈlɒːn]; born May 3, 1972) is an Iranian-American author, public intellectual, religious studies scholar, producer, and television host. He has written three books on religion: No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, […]
Source: Associated Press By SAM OLUKOYA LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s military finally revealed a death toll of 39 from a new series of extremist attacks on soldiers, while President […]
Source: Religion News Service By Doreen Ajiambo KATAKWI, Uganda (RNS) — In this remote town in a deeply traditional corner of eastern Uganda, a 27-year-old Pentecostal pastor has been arrested […]
Source: Australasian Muslim Times Posted by Zia Ahmad An interfaith gathering held at the NSW Parliament on Tuesday 27 November organised by the Indian Crescent Society of Australia and hosted […]
Source: MSN News BY Linda Givetash and Ziad Jaber and Paul Goldman AMMAN, Jordan — At the southern tip of the Dead Sea, Sameer Mahadin recalls when the shoreline was […]
Source: BBC News There has been outrage in India after the management of a shopping centre in the eastern city of Kolkata told a mum wanting to breastfeed her baby […]
Reuters International Nov 28, 2018 By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China will retaliate “in proportion” if the United States sanctions its top official in the restive region of […]
On 22nd November 2018 the legal case starts in Frankfurt against the religion critic and publicist Necla Kelek, launched by the Ahmadiyya Community. The Community is accusing Kelek, as the author in an interview with the German Radio Deutschlandfunk in the year 2017 called the Community a ‘sect’ and ‘a […]
AP November 30, 2018 School officials say she received threatening notes in her classroom storage bin The council encouraged people to send letters to the girl to “counteract the hateful message” BOSTON: A Muslim girl in Massachusetts has received hundreds of letters of support after receiving threatening notes […]
By Ahmed Bani Mustafa – Nov 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES In this undated photo, John Nawafleh surveys the ancient city of Petra. He has made more than 60 visits to […]
Nov 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Hans-Werner Sinn MUNICH — US President Donald Trump is making an intolerable show of himself in Europe. Not only has he cast doubt on America’s […]
Source: Dawn OVER the centuries, Quranic concepts of an egalitarian human society have either been forgotten, or diluted through simple-mindedness, narrowness of thought and need for political mileage. Scholarship and discourse have centred on rituals and questionable ahadith. Culture and traditions have replaced religion. Today, much of what is practised […]
Crystal balls are dangerous objects in the Middle East. Mine have been broken several times. But there’s no reason why Donald Trump should be immune from the fate of so […]
Source: Morgenpost The 4th German Islam Conference (DIK) has started with a controversial debate about foreign influences in German mosques. The kick-off event in Berlin was accompanied by a heated exchange between conservative and liberal Muslims. Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer called on the Islamic communities in Germany to gradually […]
Source: DW It’s a dreaded dinner party question that leaves many of us scrambling to make our mundane jobs sound more interesting than they are. It’s also the first thing I ask Steffen Lange, the branch manager of a company called “Berliner Schrauben” (Berlin screws), when we meet at his […]