Works on Islam and Buddhism are a big hit at stalls put up by publishers from South Asian countries at the World Book Fair here. Many avid book readers and scholars are happy to have spotted rare books that are not easily available in India.
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Rare books on Islam, Buddhism a hit at South Asian stalls (Calcutta News)
I’ve only actually known one Blaise in my life, my Uncle Blaise, who I loved dearly and who died twelve years ago of pancreatic cancer (the same disease the killed my father and that my aunt now suffers from). However, there is one other Blaise I remember from my youth, and that is St
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St. Blaise
In “The Jihadist Next Door,” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andrea Elliott’s Sunday cover story in The New York Times Magazine , Elliott turns her laser focus on the journey of one American youngster who decides to join a Somali terrorist group linked to Al Qaeda. By going deep into one particular story, this long-form feature sheds light on bigger issues.
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From Baptist kid to jihadist fighter
Over 60 c ivil society groups have condemned in the strongest terms the sinister act of dumping the severed heads of wild boar into the premises of two mosques on Old Klang Road in the early hours of 27 January 2010.
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Police investigation on mosque attacks must pursue the political operators (Aliran Online)
Head to Seminyak for Pager Wesi PR-inside.com (press release) The belief in spirits forms an important part of Balinese religion, which combines animist folk beliefs with Hinduism from other parts of south-east Asia. …
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Head to Seminyak for Pager Wesi – PR-inside.com (press release)
By Neville Spykerman KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 3 — A church worker who had lodged a police report against Al Islam magazine (in picture) for desecration slammed the authorities today for their inaction so far. The magazine’s Muslim reporters allegedly posed as Christians, accepted what Catholic’s consider a holy wafer into their mouths, before spitting it out
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Police criticised for inaction over Al Islam ‘desecration’ report (The Malaysian Insider)
KUALA LUMPUR: Lawyers for Sudhagaran Stanley today expressed their disappointment over the lack of progress in the police report lodged against Al-Islam last July.
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Lawyers: No progress in Al Islam case (The Edge Daily)
A sweet chili and ginger marinade lends a kick to salmon fillets. The United States shares the longest nonmilitarized border in the world with Canada, yet many U.S. citizens haven’t a clue what their northern neighbors eat
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Canadian food for Olympian appetites
The opening of the worship area at the Colorado Springs academy had been hailed as a step for religious tolerance. The Air Force Academy , stung several years ago by accusations of Christian bias, has built a new outdoor worship area for pagans and other practitioners of Earth-based religions.
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Cross found at Air Force Academy’s Wicca center
An aide to Malaysia’s prime minister plans to resign after allegedly calling ethnic Indian and Chinese citizens “immigrants” in an embarrassment for the government’s faltering campaign to promote harmony in this multiracial country.
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Aide to Malaysian PM to quit over race remarks (AP via Yahoo! Asia News)
I was just reading a synopsis of a book on the effect of technology on faith. For example: Reading and writing are individual activities. The technology of writing favors individualism over community, leading us to spiritual disciplines of “quiet time” and “journaling” and a gospel that is primarily oriented to the individual. Printing erodes the communal nature of faith.
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Extent of Application
AMRITSAR: The already sour relations between followers of Guru Ravidass and Sikhs could turn more bitter following Akal Takht jathedar Giani Gurbachan Singh’s warning that no one would be allowed to take the bani (voice of Gurus) of Sri Guru Granth Sahib for scripting a separate religious book. Talking to TOI on the issue of formation of separate religion, Ravidassia Dharm, by the followers of Guru Ravidass and release of separate granth (book), Amrit Bani Guru Ravidass, the jathedar said contemplation was still on for extending invitations to the Ravidass sect leaders to sink differences, if any. For the detailed news, plz click the headline above, with thanks to the Source Times of India
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None can take ‘bani’ from Granth Sahib: Jathedar
CHANDIGARH: In a highly significant development, which could have far-reaching consequences within the Sikh community, a large number of Sikh organizations, intellectuals, panthic bodies, thinkers and individuals openly defied the hukumnama (edict) against former Akal Takht jathedar Prof Darshan Singh by the incumbent jathedar, Giani Gurbachan Singh, though a symbolic gesture of sharing a meal with him on Tuesday.
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Sikhs defy Akal Takht edict against Prof Darshan Singh
excerpt from article in The Jewish Chronicle by Justin Jacobs Walk into the Saint Vincent College art gallery in Latrobe and the first thing you’ll see is a wall covered in brightly colored women’s panties. Not the most common item on display at this small, staunchly Catholic institution, but peek a little closer — each pair is adorned with Hebrew text: shomer negia (don’t touch).
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Just For Jewish Girls
Why do I get the feeling that Sippy Cupp is not even really an atheist ? Without knowing much about her, I suspect she is pretending to be an atheist so that her criticisms of atheism and liberalism (not that the two necessarily go hand …
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Daylight Atheism > In Which I Am Not Filled With Optimism
On May 13, 1940, shortly after lunch, Neville Chamberlain entered the House of Commons to be greeted by a massive ovation.
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Remember Churchill when you think of Iraq
It started with a bruise the size of a shrivelled raisin that slowly grew into a magenta plum. It was Sunday evening, our baby was sleepy as we lifted him out of the bath and I noticed the mark under his tummy button. But he’d been running round London Zoo with his brothers and sister and I thought he must have knocked himself as he raced from the gorillas to the flamingos.
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Failing out-of-hours care almost killed my baby
An unsuccessful hedge fund chum phones to propose a career change. As a daring international jewel thief, he explains, he would be among the very few foreigners to make any decent money in Tokyo.
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Cunning plan to become stinking rich
There are times when human rights become human wrongs. This happens when rights become more than a defence of human dignity, which is their proper sphere, and become instead a political ideology, relentlessly trampling down everything in their path. This is happening increasingly in Britain, and it is why the Pope’s protest against the Equality Bill, whether we agree with it or not, should be taken seriously
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The Pope is right about the threat to freedom
It is encouraging to see that a serious debate has been joined about the future direction of the British economy. Describing a “new economic model” yesterday, George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, outlines important policies that are a real step forward and aim to “build a more balanced economy”; in other words, an economy less dependent upon the financial services sector
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Britain must take a cold, hard look at itself
The Beagleys could face a maximum of 10 years in prison. Because the two have no prior convictions, the normal sentencing range under state sentencing guidelines would be 16 to 18 months in prison.
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Parents found guilty in Oregon City faith-healing trial
Earlier today, we looked at a couple of media treatments of that abstinence study . Both the Washington Post and Associated Press coverage we looked at were much better than this Los Angeles Times story. It’s awful
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Oh No! Abstinence works? (revisited)
Sat Sri Akal, In the history of Sikhs, this seems to be the first instance, when a person, that too, of the calibure of Ex Jathedar of Akal Takht Sahib, has been EX COMMUNICATED from Sikh panth. Yeah, we viewed the CD, learned versions from both the sides
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Your comments plz : Prof. Darshan singh ragi Excommunicated from Sikh Panth.
From Spencer Fluhman, on behalf of the Mormon History Association: MORMON HISTORY ASSOCIATION STUDENT AWARDS The Mormon History Association (MHA) is pleased to announce two award competitions for exceptional student work exploring the history of those religious traditions originating with Joseph Smith, Jr. The Juanita Brooks Undergraduate and Graduate Paper Awards will be given to the best unpublished papers written in 2009 by an undergraduate and graduate student, respectively. Students are eligible to submit one paper for consideration
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Mormon History Association Awards
We have a very complex and ugly story developing right now down in Haiti, one than calls up the demons of all the tensions that exist in that nation between Americans and Haitians and, it must be stressed, between competing religious groups inside Haiti.
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Chaos surrounding Haitian orphans
Merry Imbolc all! May the flame upon your candle burn unwavering as light returns to the world. As I begin to emerge from the dark womb of winter, I realize my rest was fitful and filled with dreams borne of the unresolved anger I harbor for organized religion and those who seek to harm others with it.
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Imbolc: reflections, gratitude, and inspiration
OREGON CITY, Ore. — A jury has resumed deliberations in the faith healing trial of an Oregon City couple charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of their 16-year-old son. The two-week trial of Jeff and Marci Beagley ended Friday with closing arguments.
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Ore. faith healing case: Jury deliberations resume