Immediately after the reports emerged, Abdul Aziz denied issuing the fatwa and said, “attempts by enemies to distract society from their main cause at the moment, which is standing together behind our wise leadership against attempts to distort the the world’s Muslims.” Sheikh Abdul Aziz, a Saudi Arabian grand muftiContinue Reading
Dhaka: A Bangladesh publisher who worked with atheist writers was hacked to death in the capital Dhaka today, just hours after two secular bloggers and another publisher were attacked in a separate incident. Faisal Arefin Dipan was murdered at his office in central Dhaka, Imran Sarker, who heads a secularContinue Reading
Salesians are using rap to share their faith with young peopleContinue Reading
Beijing: China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy on Thursday, with the official Xinhua news agency saying that all couples would be allowed two children. It cited a communique issued by the ruling Communist Party after a four-day meeting in Beijing to chart the course of theContinue Reading
Kathmandu: Communist leader Bidhya Devi Bhandari was on Thursday elected as Nepal’s first woman President by the parliament, weeks after it adopted a new landmark Constitution that declared the country a secular state. 54-year-old Bidhya, the Vice-president of CPN-UML and widow of late general secretary of the party Madan Bhandari,Continue Reading
A senior Vatican priest, stripped of his post after admitting being in a gay relationship, has launched a scathing attack on the Roman Catholic Church. In a letter to Pope Francis this month, Krzysztof Charamsa accused the Church of making the lives of millions of gay Catholics globally “a hell”.Continue Reading
United Nations: Pakistan lost its bid on Tuesday to be re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council when its current term ends this year. It polled just 105 votes in the 193-member General Assembly. Pakistan was considering running for the Council’s presidency next year, according to diplomatic sources, and hadContinue Reading
Bishop Rachel Treweek of Gloucester is the first female bishop to sit in the House of LordsContinue Reading
Vatican City: 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 bishopsContinue Reading
Vatican City: Citing Pope Francis’ recent words on avoiding war and promoting peaceful coexistence between nations, the Holy See addressed the United Nations general assembly last Friday, urging them to ban nuclear weapons around the world and take more serious steps to promote peace programs. “As the twenty-first century unfolds,Continue Reading
