Source: Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief says “strains of intolerance” once thought foreign to Indonesia are making inroads in the world’s most populous Muslim […]
Source: BBC News A Pakistani court has sentenced one man to death and handed life terms to five others for murdering a student who was falsely accused of blasphemy. Twenty-five […]
Source: Reuters VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Former pope Benedict said in a letter published in an Italian newspaper on Wednesday that he is in the last phase of life and […]
Source: Foreign Policy Those fitting broad “at-risk” profiles would be targeted for continuous vetting. BY GEORGE JOSEPH | FEBRUARY 5, 2018, 4:53 PM Two Muslim women stand near a fence across the […]
Source: The Washington Post Since the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015, a slew of controversial cases have raised questions over whether LGBT rights can coexist with religious […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Jessica Donati Feb. 6, 2018 10:15 a.m. ET Heather Coffman was among the first U.S. prisoners to return to her hometown, in Virginia, after […]
Source: Associated Press BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A California bakery owner can continue to refuse to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples because it violates her Christian beliefs, a judge […]
Source: MSN By Jill Lawless LONDON — DNA from a 10,000-year-old skeleton found in an English cave suggests the oldest-known Briton had dark skin and blue eyes, researchers said Wednesday. […]
Schools of Islamic thought (madhahib) are the paths people follow to the Noble Qur’an and Prophet Muhammad. Obviously, these schools of thought were founded considerably after the death of the Prophet; in fact, they never took shape until the time of the Umayyid Caliphate. The common phrase ahl al-sunnah wal-jama΄ah, […]
Source: Time By JAMIE DUCHARME February 6, 2018 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Last month, supervised injection facilities, also known as safe injection facilities (SIFs), were thrust back into the […]
Source: Time By CHRISTOPHER J. HALE Hale is a political strategist who helped lead Catholic outreach for President Obama and is the co-founder of Millennial. This week it came to light […]
Source: BBC News Germany is set to emerge from months of political deadlock after Angela Merkel’s conservatives (CDU/CSU) finally agreed a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). Negotiators […]
Source: BBC News Falcon Heavy successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rocket’s payload is Elon Musk’s own Tesla. Video Here
Source: Associated Press By FRANCES D’EMILIO VATICAN CITY (AP) — Paying the first Vatican visit by a Turkish head of state in 59 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Monday […]
Source: Reuters BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – China and the Vatican will establish formal diplomatic relations sooner or later because Pope Francis has the “wisdom” to resolve problems between the two […]
Source: The New York Times By SUHASINI RAJ and KAI SCHULTZ Rahul Upadhyay, who was rumored to have been killed in clashes between Hindus and Muslims in India last month, is very much […]
Source: BBC News Image copyrightANKIT SAXENA/FACEBOOKImage captionAnkit Saxena was allegedly stabbed last week by the family of his girlfriend Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has met the family of a […]
Source: Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — New statistics indicate that after years of growth the number of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in Israel’s workforce has begun to decline. The Israel Democracy […]
A Report of the Witherspoon Council on Ethics and the Integrity of Science The Threat of Human Cloning Ethics, Recent Developments, and the Case for Action Executive Summary • Preface: Cloning Then and Now • 1. Scientific and Historical Background 2. The Case Against Cloning-to-Produce-Children • 3. The Case Against Cloning-for-Biomedical-Research 4. Cloning Policy in the United […]
Reuters International This content was published on February 7, 2018 U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein talks to reporters in Jakarta, Indonesia February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta […]