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By Zia H Shah on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Blackpool Tower rainbow lights to greet anti-LGBT US preacher

Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Blackpool Tower will light up in rainbow colours this weekend in solidarity with LGBT people as Franklin Graham, the US conservative evangelical with links to […]

By Zia H Shah on September 21, 2018 • ( 1 Comment )

Global faith leaders urge action over ‘ignored millions’ displaced by conflict

Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent More than 50 faith leaders around the world are calling on the international community to step up protection for people displaced from their homes […]

By Zia H Shah on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

‘I lost my entire family to a cult’: How one woman escaped Grace Road

Source: BBC News A South Korean church which believes global famine is imminent has set up base in Fiji, where it’s gained considerable influence but faced growing allegations of abuse. […]

By Zia H Shah on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

In Israel, a Conservative rabbi’s arrest reopens religious freedom debate

Source: Religion News Service By Yonat Shimron HAIFA, Israel (RNS) — Congregation Moriah, this city’s only Conservative synagogue, offers Arabic classes, as well as occasional lessons on the Quran and the […]

By Zia H Shah on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

‘Isis will be looking for targets’: guns and fear mark Afghan Ashura

Source: The Guardian By Emma Graham-Harrison in Kabul Two months ago, Mohammed Murtaza Turkmeni gathered up his savings and bought his first Kalashnikov. He was born, educated and started a family against […]

By Zia H Shah on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Can Islamist moderates remake the politics of the Muslim world?

Source: THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR By Taylor Luck Alaa Faroukh insists he is the future. After nearly a decade in the Muslim Brotherhood, he says that he has finally found harmony between […]

By Zia H Shah on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

A Glimpse Inside the Hidden World of Hasidic Women

Source: The New York Times Orthodox Jewish women and men live in tightly defined, and separate, spheres. The photographer Sharon Pulwer was given a rare invitation to enter the private […]

By Zia H Shah on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

The “forced conversions” of Pakistan’s Hindu women hide a much bigger problem

Source: Quartz By Jürgen Schaflechner When I began to research the ritual journeys to the Hinglaj Devi shrine in Balochistan, I knew little about the small Pakistani Hindu community. During my […]

By Zia H Shah on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Letter from Africa: The link between earth tremors, God and Nigeria’s elections

Source: BBC News In our series of letters from Africa, Nigerian writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani considers why some earth tremors in Nigeria’s capital caused such a stir. Sometime […]

By Zia H Shah on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Yom Kippur and Ashoura: Are Muslims observing a Jewish holiday?

Source: Aljazeera By Hamid Dabashi On the Gregorian calendar (so named after Pope Gregory XIII) this September, two of the holiest Jewish and Islamic high holidays coincide. On September 10, […]

By Zia H Shah on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

The Holy Quran and the Circadian Rhythms and Shift Work

Epigraph: أَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّا جَعَلْنَا اللَّيْلَ لِيَسْكُنُوا فِيهِ وَالنَّهَارَ مُبْصِرًا ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ “Do they not see that We made the night that they may rest therein […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

The Safra Dynasty: The Mysterious Family Of The Richest Banker In The World

Flickr.com Joseph Safra is the richest banker in the world, according to Forbes. And, incidentally, the name Safra means yellow, or gold, in Arabic. Convenient. Especially since the illustrious family […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

No room for fanaticism in Islam –Sultan of Sokoto

ISLAM  September 21, 2018 By Adeola Yusuf The Sultan Of Sokoto and president general, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has, again, declared that there is […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

POLL: 89% OF ISRAELI JEWS DON’T SEE PEACE IN 5779

The poll found that the older people are, the more likely they are to back a two-state solution. BY GIL HOFFMAN SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 Share on facebook Share on twitter Amid reports that US President Donald Trump’s “ultimate deal” Middle East peace plan will be postponed until after midterm elections […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Ten things you never knew about peace

1. The theme this year is: The Right to Peace – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70. 2. In 2015, the UN adopted “17 Sustainable Development Goals” of […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

UAE tolerance: Emirates is a country for all religions, races and people, says Sheikh Nayhan

 Speaking on the International Day of Peace, the minister of tolerance also said the country works to resolve crises wherever it can The National September 21, 2018 Sheikh Nahyan bin […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

PAKISTAN: Intolerance, its flavours and justifications

Source: Daily Times But being a Muslim in Pakistan does not protect one from religious extremism. As I found out in 2013, when I started working as a relief doctor […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

India slams religious bias of ‘Naya Pakistan’ at UN

Atif Mian Atif Mian was identified by the IMF as one of the 25 young economists who will shape the global economy  WRITTEN BY Sidhant Sibal Updated: Sep 20, 2018, […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

Failure of the multicultural project in Europe

Sep 20,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – AKRAN AL DEEK Europe seems to feed what Samuel Huntington called in his 1992 lecture “The clash of civilisations”: a myth that assumes cultural, […]

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on September 21, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

No more Palestinian refugees

Sep 20,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – GWYNNE DYER Who said this? “The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. […]

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