A Vatican delegation led by a special envoy of the Pope, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, has recently paid a visit to Damascus, resulting in mixed reactions from both Christian and non-Christian Syrians alike. Cardinal Turkson, who heads the Vatican...
The historical and political role played by the Druze population in the Levant, a community shrouded in much secrecy and misinformation, despite centuries of persecution and oppression by much larger religious faiths, has greatly exceeded their sheer size and number...
At the end of May, a woman and her four children were forcibly removed from the Belgian embassy in Beijing, China. She’d been trying to complete the paperwork necessary to rejoin her husband in Ghent, Belgium. Given the fear that...
According to many the Sufism is also the mystic branch of the Islamic faith and, in order to reach a true knowledge, that is to say the divine dimension, adepts shall commit to culture, arts, poetry, music and dance. Some of them live as hermits, others in communities, they follow the cult of the masters who preceded them and, above all, they do not believe in divisions, even in the one between Sunnites and Shiites, and they do not build barriers against the “infidels”.
In two decades, the evangelical churches convinced almost a quarter of the population to convert. The shortage of medical and social facilities causes Brazilians to turn elsewhere, in search of a cure, for easy solutions, and perhaps also for some magic or miracle.
In two decades, the evangelical churches convinced almost a quarter of the population to convert. The shortage of medical and social facilities causes Brazilians to turn elsewhere, in search of a cure, for easy solutions, and perhaps also for some magic or miracle.
Shagufta Kousar and Shafqat Masih have been sentenced to death in Pakistan for allegedly sending blasphemous text messages to a Muslim man. The illiterate pair from Gojra, Punjab province were detained and charged with “insulting the Qur’an” and “insulting the...
Numerous researches and reports claimed in the couple of past years that about 1.5 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang (northwestern China) have been involuntarily sent to internment camps. The Chinese Communist Party came clear about the existence...
(Istanbul) An unused 19th century cemetery tucked away behind high walls in an Istanbul suburb and surrounded by a park and playground is about to make history. A Christian community tracing its roots back to the earliest time of the...
(Istanbul) An unused 19th century cemetery tucked away behind high walls in an Istanbul suburb and surrounded by a park and playground is about to make history. A Christian community tracing its roots back to the earliest time of the...