Religion may be a miracle drug: Column
Islam and Psychology: A Collection of ArticlesSource: USA Today By Tyler J. VanderWeele and John Siniff Church attendance is correlated with longer life and a sense of meaning. If one […]
Does the Reformation still matter?
Source: RNS By Jacob Lupfer (RNS) On Monday (Oct. 31) in Sweden, Pope Francis will take part in an ecumenical service commemorating the beginning of the Protestant Reformation’s 500th year. […]
The Smithsonian now has its first religion curator since the 1890s
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer Peter Manseau was born for this job. The son of a priest and a nun, Manseau was meant to be a scholar making […]
The public and private faith of Hillary Clinton
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor Editor’s note: This is the second of two stories on the religious beliefs of the presidential nominees. Read about the faith of Donald Trump here. (CNN)At a Catholic charity event this month, Hillary Clinton, a onetime Sunday school teacher, made a small […]
What’s scarier than a haunted house? At Judgement House, it’s eternal damnation.
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer SOUDERTON, Pa. — She stepped into the pitch-dark room, illuminated only by eerie flames, as the sound of moans and shrieks rose over the ominous music. A hooded figure, dressed in black, leapt from the darkness to hiss in her ear. Shadeilyz Castro burst […]
Toronto PD’s Muslim Chaplain: Wives Must Be Available for Sex
The city police department’s new chaplain to its Muslim officers holds rather archaic and sexist views when it comes to the role of women. BY MEIRA SVIRSKY, Mon, October 31, 2016 http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/toronto-pd%E2%80%99s-muslim-chaplain-wives-must-be-available-sex Musleh Kahn (Screenshot) The Toronto police department has appointed a new chaplain to service its Muslim officers. […]
Mosul battle: Iraqi forces near city’s eastern outskirts
Source: BBC Iraqi special forces are now less than 1.5km from the eastern outskirts of Mosul and are preparing to enter the city held by Islamic State fighters. Hundreds of Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) troops entered Bazwaya, the last village before the city limits, after launching a dawn assault on Monday. […]
Diwali fireworks choke Delhi, angering Indians
Source: BBC Angry residents of the Indian capital, Delhi, are sharing images of smog, one day after Diwali celebrations saw huge quantities of fireworks set off. Levels of pollutants in […]
Clinton emails: FBI chief may have broken law, says top Democrat
Source: BBC Harry Reid accused FBI director James Comey of violating an act which bars officials from influencing an election. News of the FBI inquiry comes less than two weeks […]
The secret of how life began
Source: BBC By Michael Marshall How did life begin? There can hardly be a bigger question. For much of human history, almost everyone believed some version of “the gods did […]
Video: York University, Canada: Justice in an Unjust World by Khalifa of Islam Ahmadiyya
Keynote address delivered by His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad (may Allah be his Helper) on October 28, 2016 at York University – Ontario, Canada.
Ahmadiyya Conversion Rates in UK
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Ahmadiyya World Leader Offers Views on Donald Trump : Daring But Unjust…
Source: JAMAICA-GLEANER.COM Mirza Masroor Ahmad, world head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. The rhetoric on the United States (US) political platform has not escaped the world head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community Mirza Masroor Ahmad, and he’s having his say: The Republican nominee Donald Trump would not get his vote. […]
Male birth control shot found effective
Source: CNN The study, co-sponsored by the United Nations and published Thursday in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, tested the safety and effectiveness of a contraceptive shot in 320 healthy men in monogamous relationships with female partners. Conducted at health centers around the world, enrollment began on a […]
2 deadly kilometers separate ISIS, Iraqi troops
Source: CNN It is across the ghostly silence and dense dust of the berms between ISIS’ Mosul and advancing Iraqi special forces that the final chapter of ISIS’ extinction in Iraq will play out.Yet at dusk on Saturday, the 2 kilometers between the US-trained Golden Division and the medieval world […]
The faith of God
Source. Times of Israel Technically the Gemara is addressing a stylistic challenge in the text. For every other act of creation in Genesis 1, the Torah tells us, “God said, ‘Let there be’ … And there was…” In the case of the creation of humankind alone, there is a preface, […]
Germans think they’re fit, but they’re really couch potatoes
Source: The Local A report released on Thursday by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reveals that Germans perhaps overestimate their healthy lifestyles.More Germans in 2014 considered themselves to be physically fit than ten years ago – 65 percent of Germans said they were healthy, compared to 60 percent in 2004. […]
Muslim leader says justice is a pre-requisite to conflict resolution
http://www.khalifaofislam.com: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addresses Canada’s first National Peace Symposium On 22 October 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza […]
A Syrian refugee applying for a student visa in Britain received a bizarre rejection letter — and he’s not alone
NATASHA BERTRAND POLITICS OCT. 22, 2016, Mahmoud Alkhuder Mahmoud Alkhuder, who is originally from Aleppo, stands in front of the German flag in Dusseldorf earlier this year. Obtaining a visa to enter Europe legally is becoming more difficult every day as Syria’s brutal civil war — and the refugee crisis it […]