In the aftermath of the explosion Beirut mourns its dead and weighs the damage caused. It is extensive, considering that the force of the blast devastated not only the port but all the neighbourhoods hit by the shockwave. A war...
July 2, 2016. The first call to Muslim prayer from inside Hagia Sophia temple after over eight decades. Since 1935, by decision of the founder and first President of the Turkish state Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the temple has been functioning...
In Israel, COVID-19 has hit ultra-Orthodox Jews particularly hard. Now the country’s Ultra-Orthodox health minister Yaakov Litzman has infected himself, likely due to not complying with his own regulations. Israel’s Battle Against Coronavirus In some parts of Israel, coronavirus contagion...
It’s Sunday morning in Paris. While many are still in bed recovering from a hangover and thinking about how a tasty croissant and cheese could help to cure it, by 9 a.m. others are already busy dedicating their time to...
While the world has been paying attention to Donald Trump’s first visit to India and the many photo opportunities it provides, New Delhi has been witnessing its worst religious riots in decades. New Delhi Gripped By Deadly Religious Violence At...
Pope Francis recently marked the Catholic Church’s shift into a less Western-centered approach to the world by announcing a groundbreaking decision: to support what he renamed the “outskirts of the world”, namely the emerging powers of the Global South, in...
A constitutional crisis is likely to grip Tanzania, East Africa’s largest country, if the opposition does not call off its bluff of boycotting elections scheduled for November 23 as advised by the influential local Catholic church. The main opposition party...
Russia’s domestic and foreign policy is not fully understood without taking into account the centuries-long powerful influence it has exerted on pop culture, politics and clergy, by the idea of the “Third Rome”. Such a concept was developed in the...
For Israel’s two main ultra-Orthodox parties, the Shas and the United Torah Judaism (UTJ), this week’s election was always going to determine the role religion plays in the state. Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition, the Blue and White Party, have been flirting...
Faced with poverty, unemployment, and diseases, many Africans have turned to religion as their only source of hope and solace. However, many became the victim of religious abuse as a result of bogus preachers who capitalised on people’s desperation to...