Source: Time By LESLIE JAMISON Leslie Jamison is the author, most recently, of The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath. The second time I got sober, I started praying with a sense of […]
Source: The New York Times BY DAVID M. HALBFINGER and IYAD ABUHEWEILA JERUSALEM — In Gaza City, pickup trucks and motorized rickshaws busily ferried piles of tires toward the border fence with […]
Source: The Guardian By Jessica Elgot Political correspondent Cross-party group says some posts incite violence and should be urgently investigated Lord Sugar, a signatory to the letter to Scotland Yard, has been […]
Source: Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — Civil society and rights groups in Myanmar said Facebook has failed to adequately act against online hate speech that incites violence against the country’s […]
Source: Associated Press By LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department has agreed not to conduct surveillance based on religion or ethnicity and to listen to […]
Source: Religion News Service By Aziza Kasumov LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Stephen Han’s sermon has the cadence of a TED Talk. Wearing jeans and a loose button-up shirt, he paces energetically […]
Source: NPR BY ESTHER HONIG Wearing a heavy smock and rubber boots, Amadedin Eganwa stands over a large conveyor belt that’s carrying unconscious lambs. He faces east, toward Mecca, gently lifts […]
Source: The New York Times By ADAM NOSSITER El Hadi Doudi, an imam who preaches a fundamentalist form of Islam, at a courthouse in Marseille, France, in February. The French government […]
Source: BBC News Family pressure has fuelled a sense of persecution felt by gay people in Chechnya, a mainly Muslim region in southern Russia. Dozens have fled and some have […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DALIA FAHMY A woman prays at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) In many parts of the world, women […]
Source: ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES BY John Boyle, jboyle@citizen-times.com The statistics are daunting, particularly when it comes to the “nones.” Fewer younger people, particularly Millennials, attend church or believe in God, and they’re less likely […]
Reuters International This content was published on April 6, 2018 Palestinians gather at the Israel-Gaza border during a protest demanding the right to return to their homeland, east […]
Source: Science Daily Date:April 5, 2018 Source:Cell Press Summary:Researchers show for the first time that healthy older men and women can generate just as many new brain cells as younger […]
Source: Aljazeera by Patrick Strickland 12 hours ago A government billboard is seen displaying George Soros in October 2017 [Bernadett Szabo/Reuters]With Hungarians slated to head to the polls on Sunday, […]
Source: Time By R.J. RICO / AP April 5, 2018 (ATLANTA) — The nation’s chief doctor wants more Americans to start carrying the overdose antidote naloxone to help combat the nation’s […]
Source: Time By ALICE PARK For a long time researchers thought the brain did not make new cells. That meant that as the existing cells died with age, nerve connections were […]
Source: Associated Press By AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A spate of deadly drive-by shootings targeting Muslim clerics and preachers has sparked panic and fear in Yemen’s southern port […]
Source: BBC News Saudi Arabia’s first cinema in more than 35 years will open on 18 April, showing the action movie Black Panther. It is part of a deal done […]
Source: Associated Press By HYUNG-JIN KIM and GERRY SHIH SOUTHERN JILIN PROVINCE, China (AP) — To the North Koreans gathered beneath a crucifix in an apartment in this northeastern Chinese […]
Source: The New York Times By Rukmini Callimachi Photographs by Ivor Prickett April 4, 2018 On five trips to battle-scarred Iraq, journalists for The New York Times scoured old Islamic State offices, […]