Category: Religion

OPINION PIECE For the professional religious right, the nomination of D.C. Circuit Court Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court was an ultimate triumph. Abortion rights, which allegedly propelled religious conservatives from the political sidelines to the corridors of power, are on the cusp of being dismantled. This moment, decades in the making, was […]

OPINION PIECE BY SIMRAN JEET SINGH Last week, WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, released secretly recorded audio files that captured a New Jersey sheriff, Michael Saudino, making biased comments about African-Americans, a homophobic remark about New Jersey Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver and an anti-Sikh statement about New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir […]

Two years ago, Modu Bukar, a local leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, was gunned down in Potiskum, a city in northeastern Nigeria. “We spoke only about five minutes before,” said Mala Mohammed, a 24-year-old student at Bayero University Kano and a member of the Movement, led by Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, a radical Shiite […]

With the Value Voters Summit under way in Washington this weekend, let’s ponder recent evidence that the hard core supporters of President Trump’s do not consist of America’s most religious people. That was the message delivered by the Cato Institute’s polling director, Emily Ekins, in a New York Times op-ed this week. According to survey data from the Democracy Fund Study Group, […]

According to Mark Taylor, he is certain he knows why Donald Trump became president. Forget Hillary hatred, white anger, Russian interference or voter turnout. Trump’s victory was God’s will, said Taylor. Taylor said he knows this because God told him so. In 2011, while watching an interview with Trump on TV, Taylor says he heard […]

India’s government has approved an ordinance to implement a top court ruling striking down the Muslim practice that allows men to instantly divorce. The government decision came after it failed to get approval from Parliament a year after the court ruled that the practice of allowing men to divorce by simply uttering the Arabic word […]

When Kennedy Mukama fled from Uganda in 2015 because of harsh anti-gay laws and harassment, he hoped to find safe haven in a United Nations refugee camp. But within a few months, those hopes were dashed. He says religious leaders spurred their followers to attack and beat him for allegedly promoting homosexual behavior. “It was the saddest day […]

According to a recent study conducted, people who attended religious services or prayed regularly during their upbringing turned out to be happier in early adulthood. Practising religious or spiritual traditions during childhood and adolescence is likely to provide health benefits to children later in life. The American Journal of Epidemiology study shows that, people who attended […]

The Winter Gardens Center in the English seaside town of Blackpool is best known as the venue for speeches by prime ministers at party conventions or for hosting the now annual BBC TV extravaganza “Strictly Come Dancing.” However, for three nights next weekend, people will gather the auditorium to hear the Evangelist Franklin Graham preach […]

China has implemented rules to monitor the level of religious activity on internet amid an ongoing crackdown on churches, mosques and other institutions by the officially atheist Communist Party. Anyone that desires to hold religious services on the internet must first make an application by name and be deemed as morally fit and politically reliable, […]