Shaykh Lutfollah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran Oludamini Ogunnaike College of William and Mary Oludamini Ogunnaike’s research interests include Islamic philosophy, spirituality, art, and African and African diasporic religions. More […]
This content was published on July 16, 2018 The papyrus contains a previously unknown medical text from late antiquity, describing a condition called “hysterical apnoea”(Hasselblad H5D/ University of Basel) Scientists […]
By Thomas Stephens This content was published on July 10, 2018 Around one in seven Swiss expats is an ‘explorer’, who finds it easy to settle down in their new […]
July 5, 2018 We regularly are asked about how we measure religion. Here are answers to some of the questions we get most often. Question 1: Measuring religious identity How […]
By Reuters – Jul 16,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinians swim to cool off in the Mediterranean Sea as others enjoy their time on a beach in the northern Gaza Strip […]
By AFP – Jul 16,2018 – JORDAN TIMES African migrants, who according to the Libyan navy were rescued by the country’s coast guard, arrive at the naval base of […]
Source: Jul 16,2018 – JORDAN TIMES James J. Zogby, who is president of the Washington-based Arab American Institute On Wednesday morning, I watched an amazing debate unfolding in the Irish […]
Source: Miami Herald BY HOWARD COHEN A resident at a Miami Beach condo was angry after learning he was about to be evicted so he planned to burn down the […]
Source: Associated Press By PHILIP MARCELO and JEFF KAROUB SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A liberal woman of color with zero name recognition and little funding takes down a powerful, long […]
Source: Star-Telegram BY SARAH SMITH The missionary arm of the Southern Baptist Convention knew about allegations against Southern Baptist leader Mark Aderholt more than 10 years before he was arrested July […]
Source: The New York Times By Laurie Goodstein and Sharon Otterman As a young man studying to be a priest in the 1980s, Robert Ciolek was flattered when his brilliant, charismatic bishop in […]
Source: CNN By Heather Kelly Forty students learning how to code in a classroom on the third floor of Pontifical Catholic University in downtown Rio de Janierio got an unusual […]
Source: BBC News China’s economy grew at an annual pace of 6.7% in the three months to June, official data showed, meeting forecasts for the period. That marked a slight […]
Source: Dawn News Green-domed mosques still dominate the skyline of China’s “Little Mecca”, but they have undergone a profound change — no longer do boys flit through their stone courtyards […]
Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME A new study provides more good news for coffee lovers. Drinking coffee is associated with a lower risk of early death — virtually regardless of how […]
Source: Time By ALICE PARK There has been welcome excitement in the cancer field lately about immune-based treatments, which co-opt the body’s own immune system to fight tumors. The so-called immunotherapies have […]
Source: Huffington Post By Brandi Miller, Columnist Let’s be honest, Christians. For professing a belief in a relatively unpredictable God, we have incredibly predictable defensive patterns whenever people question or critique […]
Source: Huffington Post By Alanna Vagianos Australian Archbishop Philip Wilson was sentenced to 12 months in detention on Tuesday after being convicted in May of covering up a priest’s sexual […]
The Local news@thelocal.ch @thelocalswitzer 6 July 2018 Switzerland’s finest Cervelat. Photo: Popo le Chien – CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Right-wing politician Andrea Glarner has offered to donate 2,000 Cervelat […]
Alex Macbeth alex.macbeth@thelocal.com @alexmacbethtoc 16 July 2018 A court in Neuchâtel last week found a Somali mother guilty of submitting her two daughters to female genital mutilation in a landmark […]