By Rick Yencer MUNCIE, INDIANA (NEWS) – Muzaffar Ahmad told of persecution and killing among Islamic sects in Pakistan and throughout the world as his sect of Muslims preach peace. Ahmad, who is a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim sect, talked with Ball State University students and professors Thursday about […]
How It Works The Religious Health-O-Meter evaluates the overall health of America’s eleven largest religious organizations by comparing combined factors related to happiness and devotion. Each religious organization was ordered from highest to lowest by percentage of membership that meet the requirement in six categories. Each religion was scored on […]
I was scrolling through my Facebook feed a few days ago when I came across a picture of the new billboard in Times Square. If you’re one of the approximately […]
I was scrolling through my Facebook feed a few days ago when I came across a picture of the new billboard in Times Square. If you’re one of the approximately […]
By Sazzad Khandakar July 26, 2013 It is the holy month of Ramadhan. Muslims all across the world engage themselves in dawn to dusk fasting as it was prescribed by God in the Holy Quran. In chapter 2, vs 184, God commands men to fast and mentions that it was prescribed for […]
Source: Daily Star MIXING RELIGION WITH POLITICS An otherwise little known group Hefazat-e-Islam has become instrumental in winning election, especially at a time when everyone has thought that secularism in Bangladesh taking a strong foothold. Political use of religion–especially Islam–is back, and it seems to have all the ingredients to […]
A 65-year-old British atheist who has lived in the US for 30 years has been denied US citizenship, unless she joins a church by Friday. During her application process to become a naturalized US citizen, Texas resident Margaret Doughty did not agree to bear arms to defend the country, claiming […]
Source: NY Times By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON — Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents, the State Department said on Monday in an annual report chronicling a grim decline in religious freedom that has resulted in rising […]
Source: New Haven Register, Connecticut. By Dr Sohail Husain As a child, I looked forward to March and April. Because that’s when our local pharmacy would sell Cadbury Creme Eggs. Being a Muslim, I had no idea at the time that the eggs were a symbol of Easter or even […]
Express Tribune: by Farahnaz Zaidi: It is said that there’s enough religion in the world to make men hate one another, but not enough to make them love. But what if religion were to become a common ground where shared religious and ethical values are celebrated? Perhaps, too far-fetched a […]
A Kiwi Journey From Christianity to Islam Sister Rhonda’s Journey from England to New Zealand Saturday, 29 December 2012 00:00 It was actually two years after that first day that the program on Islam was on, till when I actually took my Shahadah in London I was born just north […]
According to Wikipedia, Lesley Hazleton is an award-winning British-American writer whose work focuses on the intersection of politics, religion, and history, especially in the Middle East. She reported from Israel for Time, and has written on the Middle East for numerous publications including The New York Times, The New York […]
Source: Guardian By Alok Jha, science correspondent Higgs boson theorist says he agrees with those who find Dawkins’ approach to dealing with believers ’embarrassing’ As public disagreements go, few can […]
Courtesy: Dr. Mohamed Boodhun. Grand Falls-Windsor, NL http://www.rts.ch/video/emissions/religion/faut-pas-croire/4511333-reportage-un-petit-coin-d-islam-au-coeur-du-canada.html
Huff Post: Alan Jones. I wonder if there’s anyway to recapture just how weird and peculiar Christmas is? We’re so used to it. The religious observers take it for granted and the Winter Solstice crowd keep dreaming of a White one. Christmas trees are everywhere and Christmas carols are heard […]
Huff Post: Shane Hipps. The long slow decline of religion in America has produced much hand wringing among Christians. The grief and anxiety are inevitable, but not entirely necessary. After all, Jesus didn’t come into this world to start a new religion. His stated purpose was actually to announce the […]
Three alleged incidents in the past few days have gone relatively unnoticed: the desecration of over 120 Ahmadi community graves in close neighbourhood of the Sharifs’ mansions in Model Town, […]
The Swiss people’s relationship with religion is undergoing significant change. There are twenty times more Swiss with no religious affiliation today than forty years ago. Faith also plays a less […]
1. What is religion—some rituals and super-natural beliefs or complete code of life for this world and hereafter? 2. Do we need religion? 3. While living in an organized civil society, strictly law-abiding in its nature, why don’t we wish to follow an organized religion? Is it the theocracy (rule […]
Huffington Post: There is a camp of feminists out there who would like us to believe that wearing the hijab is a discriminatory, male-biased, patriarchal practice, note the article by Adele-Wilde Blavatsky on […]