Source: Pew Research Center BY PATRICK VAN KESSEL AND ADAM HUGHES Discovering where people find meaning in life is a challenging task. One way is to give them an opportunity to write, in […]
By Euan McKirdy and Sophia Saifi, CNN November 23, 2018 Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)Armed attackers attempted to storm the Chinese consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi Friday morning, killing […]
Source: Associated Press By ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s prime minister accused senior Muslim community leaders on Wednesday of “continuing down a path of denial” after they refused […]
November 22, 2018. India and Pakistan have agreed to construct a new border entry point and road to allow Sikh pilgrims from India to visit a shrine in Pakistan. Sikhism […]
Source: Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have denied involvement in a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital that killed at least 55 people. Tuesday’s attack, which targeted […]
Source: BBC News Cremation is provoking a huge debate in Zimbabwe, bringing cultural and religious beliefs to the fore, journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes from Harare. “For you were made from […]
Source: Associated Press BY Emily Wang HOTAN UNITY NEW VILLAGE, China (AP) — In this corner of China’s far west, rows of identical white concrete houses with red metal roofs […]
Source: Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli cabinet minister called on Wednesday for a boycott of Airbnb and promoted one of its rivals, escalating the government’s response […]
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has […]
Source: The Economist ABOUT 30 YEARS ago, in the final years of the cold war, the American political scientist Joseph Nye developed the concept of soft power. He meant the […]
Source: Vox By Tara Isabella Burton Members of the Central American caravan wait in line for food and other items while in a camp on October 31, 2018, in Juchitan, de […]
Source: Religion & Politics By Aysha Khan Hania Mansoor drove for more than 10 hours to catch a glimpse of her caliph. As members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in […]
Source: Time By MARK SHERMAN / AP (WASHINGTON) — Chief Justice John Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s description of a judge who ruled against Trump’s new migrant asylum […]
Source: Time By TARA LAW The list of the people unaccounted for after the Camp Fire in Northern California has dropped from more than 1,000 to 870, which may come as […]
Where should the Sunni Islamist fighters of Idlib go? Since their money and their weapons come from the Sunni Gulf, and since their Wahhabi Sunni faith was inspired by the […]
The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited—and remade. Lesley Hazleton’s new book, Agnostic: A Spirited Manifesto, is out now from Riverhead Books. Muhammad’s […]
Suggested reading How Islam has Influenced the Christian understanding of God Video: How Jesus Became God, by Prof. Bart Ehrman?
By Christine Nobiss Courtesy of Christine Nobiss/Ducka Zo Yooxot Likipt, Cayuse In this op-ed, Christine Nobiss, MA (Religious Studies), Plains Cree/Saulteaux of the George Gordon First Nation and Decolonizer with […]
by Becky Little, National Geographic The pilgrims stole from graves, the Wampanoag were devastated by disease, and the peace between them was political. When the Mayflower pilgrims and the […]
22 November 2018 A controversial proposal by a German minister that foreign powers acquire land in Africa to curb migration has been rejected by the African Union, writes the BBC’s […]