What the world can learn from Australia
Source: Economist By Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief Our cover this week holds out Australia as an example for the world. Rising incomes, low public debt, an affordable welfare state, popular […]
UN investigator: Genocide still taking place in Myanmar
Source: Associated Press By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Genocide is still taking place against Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar and the government is increasingly demonstrating it has […]
In France, a Push to Teach Arabic in Public Schools, Not Mosques
Source: Wall Street Journal By Stacy Meichtry and Nick Kostov PANTIN, France—Every Sunday, parents in this working-class neighborhood just north of Paris bring their children to a small school operated by the […]
European court rejects Austrian’s case over prophet slur
Source: Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights says an Austrian woman’s conviction for calling the prophet of Islam a pedophile didn’t breach her freedom of speech. The Strasbourg-based ECHR ruled Thursday that Austrian courts had “carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the […]
Rights groups push for yes vote in Irish blasphemy referendum
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Irish voters will decide on Friday whether to remove a clause in the country’s constitution that makes blasphemy a criminal act. A yes vote […]
This Community Is Tearing Itself Apart Over Non-Christians Owning Houses
Source: Vice By Trevor Bach July 7 was a clear day in northern Michigan. Late in the evening, Jeremy Sheaffer climbed onto the roof of the cottage on Bluff Street, […]
Religious Freedom Shouldn’t Be Freedom to Discriminate
Source: Bloomberg By Noah Feldman A South Carolina foster-care agency has asked the Trump administration to rule that it has a constitutional right to discriminate against non-Protestant and gay parents under the […]
Film explores controversy over ex-Wheaton College prof who wore hijab to support Muslims
Source: Chicago Tribune BY Tracy Swartz Contact Reporter Chicago Tribune A documentary about a tenured Wheaton College professor who lost her job after she posted pictures of herself in a hijab […]
Republicans and Democrats both try to paint the other side’s candidates as worse for the Jews
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — When Ron DeSantis, the Republican congressman running for governor of Florida, was asked in a debate to defend his record on […]
Ex-Cincinnati assistant coach pleads guilty: ‘Inappropriately touched’ female passenger
Source: USA Today Former University of Cincinnati associate head basketball coach Larry A. Davis Thursday pleaded guilty to federal misdemeanor assault charges in Charlotte, N.C. over an incident that also cost the […]
Muslim and Christian make new Quran translation to show the two religions’ similarities
Source: Independent By Harriet Agerholm A Muslim and a Christian have made a new translation of the Quran to underline the similarities between their two religions. The authors, who are also friends, said they hoped the […]
Discovery of ‘oldest’ Quran fragments could resolve history of holy text
Source: CNN BY Fozia Bora Fozia Bora is a lecturer in Middle Eastern History and Islamic History at University of Leeds. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those […]
If the Government Redefines Gender to Exclude Trans People, It Could Worsen an Urgent Public Health Crisis
Source: Time By TIA POWELL, JULES CHYTEN BRENNAN, VIRAJ PATEL, VAFA TABATABAIE Dr. Powell is Dr. Shoshanah Trachtenberg Frackman Chair in Biomedical Ethics at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College […]
10 Suspicious Packages Sent to Trump Critics: The Latest on Pipe Bombs Targeting Biden, Obamas and More
Source: Time By GINA MARTINEZ and KATIE REILLY Law enforcement officials are still investigating at least 10 packages containing pipe bombs that were part of attempted attacks targeting high-profile Democrats, including two former […]
‘The food supplement that ruined my liver’
Source: BBC News Jim McCants took green tea capsules in a drive to get healthy in middle age. His doctors now say they left him needing an urgent liver transplant, […]
Short Video: Richard Dawkins on Vicarious Atonement and Bible Stories
Suggested Reading If the Atheists and the Christians Debate, Islam Wins! Pope John Paul II and Me: ‘Truth Cannot Contradict Truth?’ Pope Francis joins Pope John Paul II in evading conflict between […]
Pew Research Center: The most and least educated U.S. religious groups
The most and least educated U.S. religious groups https://t.co/4sZJ9E65Lf pic.twitter.com/BVCvUAnxOc — Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) October 26, 2018
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times This concept has been traced to the 12th century, attributed to Bernard of Chartres. Its most familiar expression […]
The ‘fall of man’ and anthropology
By Andrew Dickson White, who was the cofounder of Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades [This is a chapter from the book A History of […]
The Latest Exhibition of the Catholic Church and the Age Old Belief in Exorcism
Catholic Exorcist Prays For Brett Kavanaugh In Response To Witches’ Planned Hex Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla The Rev. Gary Thomas said those targeting the Supreme Court justice are […]