Tag: Muslims
Call to blacklist India over religious freedom
The US panel only offers recommendations and has no ability to set policy. There was little expectation the State Department would adopt the commission’s position
Muslim population will nearly equal Christians’ by 2050: report
According to projections, Christians will still make up the largest religious group in the world. Atheists, agnostics and other people who do not recognize religion will make up a “declining share” of the world’s total population.
Pope Francis reaches out to Muslims during Ramadan
IN message published on Friday, Pope Francis took the rare step of personally expressing his “esteem and friendship” to the world’s Muslims as they prepare to celebrate the end of the Ramadan fast.
20% of blocked hate sites managed by Hindu groups: report
AROUND 20 percent of the web pages, blocked by the Indian government in the aftermath of mass exodus of North East Indians from various parts of the country to their home states, were uploaded by fundamentalist Hindu groups, a report in today's Times of India said.
670 million Muslims expect Mahdi in their lifetime: Pew poll
TWO-thirds of a billion Muslims expect the Mahdi – the last Islamic imam they believe will come and rule the world – to arrive in their lifetimes, according to a new Pew Research poll.
Prayer alert: Arab Spring gives birth to rise of Islam
THE Barnabas Aid appeal says hostility to Christianity is on the increase and asks for God to give wisdom to the voters in North Africa. The prayer alert is aimed at getting intercession for what some are seeing as an escalation of Islamism in the Middle East.
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Kalisher – the son of a Holocaust survivor and born into one of the most prominent and influential Messianic Jewish families in all of Israel – gives a fascinating explanation of why many Jews don’t believe that Jesus is the Messiah but also why more Jews than ever do believe.
