Pope Francis, ending a contentious bishops’ meeting on family issues, on Saturday excoriated immovable Church leaders who “bury their heads in the sand” and hide behind rigid doctrine while families suffer. The pope spoke at the end of a three-week gathering, known as a synod, where the bishops agreed to […]
VOA: A majority of Americans, 59 percent, believe science often conflicts with religion, while 38 percent say the two areas are mostly compatible The most religious Americans are less likely […]
The Guardian, British Museum, London Neil MacGregor’s swansong as director of the British Museum is a brilliant challenge to the modern western belief in unbelief: the cosy assumption that all sensible people are secular rationalists now. It confronts our inability to cope with a world in which religion is still […]
RT Six Russian women in a sealed room and it may get hot – no this isn’t a scene from a movie, but a scientific experiment dubbed ‘Luna-2015’. For eight whole days these female scientists will learn how to survive in conditions imitating flight to the moon. The purpose of […]
Source: Christian Science Monitor An Illinois jury awarded $240,000 in damages and back pay to two former truck drivers who claimed religious discrimination when they were fired in 2009 after […]
First posted by Dr. Falak Rahman Source: Huffington Post By M.G.S. Narayanan; Historian, academic, Former Chairman of India Council Of Historical Research The present controversy around beef eating, accompanied by violent […]
Post originally made by Dr. Falak Rahman Source: The Guardian: By Ijeoma Oluo, who is a Seattle based writer and internet yeller. Her work on feminism and social justice has been […]
This is a small booklet with a very descriptive title, written by an Australian Judge, Ernest Brougham Docker, in 1920. He became a judge of the District Court and chairman […]
In my view Prof. Bart Ehrman very satisfactorily establishes in this debate that historically we cannot prove Jesus’ resurrection. Here is a 1.5 – 2 hours debate from 2008: There […]
It seems that in the first century Roman Empire the use of divine metaphors for humans was not uncommon. In the case of Jesus Christ the Church took these metaphors too seriously and literally. Prof. Bart Ehrman says: “Apollonius lived at about the same time as Jesus, although they never […]
Epigraph: And those who call not on any other God along with Allah, nor kill a person that Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit adultery (or fornication), and he who does that shall meet with the punishment of sin. Doubled to him will be the punishment on […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Like we have five pillars of Islam, including Shahada, Salat or Prayer, Fasting, Zakat or Charity […]
Epigraph: And those who call not on any other God along with Allah, nor kill a person that Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit adultery (or fornication), […]
James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981) and was awarded the 2002 Nobel […]
Source: Muslim Sunrise, Summer 2012 volume Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Chinese tell of a time during the Hsia dynasty, in […]
Source: Time By Jeffrey Kluger @jeffreykluger A new study confirms a theory that the great man of physics never much liked If you want to play in the quantum sandbox, you […]
Source: Muslim Sunrise Fall of 2015 volume; which is the oldest quarterly Muslim publication of Americas By Khaula Rehman MD, Binghamton NY Over one half of young Americans, 63% to […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post The scent of curry wafted from a conference hall in Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday as thousands lined up for […]
Posted originally by Amtul Q Farhat Source: RT.com Germany has addressed comments made by Benjamin Netanyahu, in which the Israeli leader accused the World War II Palestinian grand mufti of […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — For the first time in weeks of escalating violence, Israel allowed Muslims of all ages to enter Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site to perform Friday prayers in […]