by Omar Shahid Omar Shahid is a freelance journalist specialising in religious affairs. He blogs at: omarshahid.co.uk Ten years ago, a young and unassuming British-Azerbaijani, who’d recently had a spiritual […]
Source: Spiegel Germany launched a new push to outlaw the NPD party on Tuesday amid doubts whether the legal bid will succeed, and whether a ban would significantly curb the […]
Source: Spiegel Germany launched a new push to outlaw the NPD party on Tuesday amid doubts whether the legal bid will succeed, and whether a ban would significantly curb the […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Wednesday 4 December 2013 ARABNEWS The top two prizes of the King Abdul Aziz International Qur’an contest, which was held at the Grand Mosque […]
BERLIN: Five Arab countries are ranked among the top 10 most corrupt nations, according to Transparency International’s newly released annual Corruption Perceptions Index, as instability in the region has profound […]
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch December 3, 2013 – 11:00 Forty years after Japanese quartz watches brought the Swiss watch industry to its knees, the sector faces a new challenge in […]
Source: Dawn An imam from a tiny hamlet on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast has run into trouble with the country’s powerful religious authorities — for his other life as a rock musician. Ahmet Muhsin Tuzer told AFP he is being investigated by the Diyanet, the […]
Source: Dawn An imam from a tiny hamlet on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast has run into trouble with the country’s powerful religious authorities — for his other life as a rock musician. Ahmet Muhsin Tuzer told AFP he is being investigated by the Diyanet, the […]
Huff Post — VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Library and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library have put the first of 1.5 million pages of ancient manuscripts online. The two libraries in 2012 announced a four-year project to digitize some of the most important works of their collections of Hebrew manuscripts, […]
Huff Post: by Deepak Chopra — To summarize the situation, we have three mysteries that we do not understand: the unpredictable movements of atoms, the existence of our own consciousness, and the friendliness of the universe to life and mind. I am only saying that the three mysteries are probably […]
Reuters) – U.S. small businesses boosted borrowing in October to its highest level in over six years, an index showed on Tuesday, fresh evidence that the budget battle that shut the federal government for 16 days did little to derail underlying economic growth. The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index, […]
Source: Spiegel: German jihadists are heading to Syria in ever greater numbers, with some 230 having already traveled to join the opposition in battle. A German politician wants to create an early warning system to prevent young men from making the trip. More:
Source: pravmir.com Moscow, December 2, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has stated his wishes to the translation of the Bible into modern Russian. “Everyone understands the Synodal […]
Source: newswales.co.uk Police are appealing for information after a rare 16th century bible was stolen from a Conwy church sometime between October 25 and December 1. The Breaches Bible, which dates back to 1589 AD, was stolen from St Mary’s Church in Trefriw, Conwy. The bible, with a black outer cover, […]
Source: orlandosentinel.com So you want to go to Jerusalem, walk the path that Jesus took, visit the Basilica of Agony, stand inside The Last Supper room, but you hate to travel, can’t afford the airfare, and suffer from the fear of lost luggage. Well, there’s an app for that. Bible Travels – […]
Source: orlandosentinel.com So you want to go to Jerusalem, walk the path that Jesus took, visit the Basilica of Agony, stand inside The Last Supper room, but you hate to travel, can’t afford the airfare, and suffer from the fear of lost luggage. Well, there’s an app for that. Bible Travels – […]
Source: westernfrontonline.net After about a year of piecing together biblical lineages, Western Washington University alumnus Rick Medved finished compiling his research to determine what he believes to be the actual date of the Hebrew Exodus. Medved published his research in a book titled “1174 BC – The Exodus Discovered!” After receiving […]
Source: news.yahoo.com Kano (Nigeria) (AFP) – Police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria’s city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer on Wednesday, the latest move in a wider crackdown […]
Source: bbc.co.uk Ancient Bibles and Biblical texts from the Bodleian and Vatican libraries have been digitised and made available to the public for the first time. Europe’s first printed book, Gutenberg’s […]
– Norwegian abattoir has slaughtered 100 reindeer the halal way – The owner is planning on sending the meat as far as Dubai – Harry Dyrstad is also preparing to […]