Source: Reuters By Roberta Rampton | JAKARTA U.S. Vice President Mike Pence toured Southeast Asia’s largest mosque on Thursday during a visit to Indonesia, calling the Muslim-majority nation’s tradition of […]
Source: Associated Press By MARK SCOLFORO BERNVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ruled there was insufficient evidence to charge the leader of a church that rejects modern medicine, […]
Source: NPR By TOM GJELTEN Like any good fifth-grade teacher, Mike Matthews wants to make his social studies unit on the American West as exciting as possible. So he’s planning […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MCCLENDON If demography is destiny, then Christianity’s future lies in Africa. By 2060, a plurality of Christians – more than four-in-ten – will call […]
Source: The Washington Post By Qasim Rashid April 19 at 2:58 PM A collection of guns and rifles, displayed at a news conference in Brooklyn. (Colleen Long/Associated Press) Three people […]
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Scroll In: Yoga is not a culturally homogenous, all-Hindu, Vedic tradition, as is often portrayed by revivalist demagogues and those who have set up a raucous campaign to reclaim its roots. It is, in fact, a liberal, eclectic tradition that absorbed freely from Buddhist, Jain, even Sufist ascetic practices. Roots […]
By Lutful Islam, 15 April, 2017 17 years after losing his home in a mob attack, Malik Saleem Lateef, an Ahmadi Muslim, was gunned down in broad daylight on 30 March. 1989 was a historic year for many reasons. The cold war culminated with Soviet Union’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and […]
Source: BBC Emirates will reduce flights to five US cities from next month, after new security rules targeted travellers from the Middle East. The Dubai-based airline said the change was […]
Source: BBC By Eric Barton 18 April 2017 When Ian Wright started working from his home in London last November, he thought he had the ideal setup. He could spend […]
Source: BBC Senior figures in India’s ruling party will be tried for criminal conspiracy over the destruction of a 16th Century mosque, the Supreme Court has ruled. The order is […]
Source: BBC Physicists have created a fluid with “negative mass”, which accelerates towards you when pushed. In the everyday world, when an object is pushed, it accelerates in the same […]
Source: The Washington Post By James McAuley PARIS — For some, the French presidential election will alter the course of a troubled nation steeped in economic and social turmoil. For […]
Source: The Atlantic BY MOLLY WORTHEN Donald trump has never been known for displays of Christian humility. The first few minutes of his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast in February […]
Source: Hartford Courant BY Susan Dunne Contact Reporter When a wave of violence and police brutality against young African Americans occurred a few years ago, Tracy Keza was paying close attention. […]
Source: The Guardian BY Lois Beckett A Jewish woman in Montana who was the target of weeks of harassment by neo-Nazi internet trolls is suing the instigator of the “troll storm”, […]
Source: Religion News Service By Jana Riess A guest post by Mette Harrison A few months ago, I got into a surprising argument on Facebook about whether Mormons worship Jesus […]
Source: The Diplomat By Usman Ahmad With the sudden fury of a flash storm, images of an angry mob lynching a young man to death at the Abdul Wali Khan […]