There are more than a billion Muslims in the world, each with an individual view of life. So why are they viewed as a unified group, asks Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist? In 2007, the author was struck by the large number of interviewers and of audience members at Q&As who spoke of…
The newly elected, 113th Congress includes the first Buddhist to serve in the Senate, the first Hindu to serve in either chamber and the first member of Congress to describe her religion as “none,” continuing a gradual increase in religious diversity that mirrors trends in the country as a whole. While Congress remains majority Protestant,…
News Agencies – October 5, 2012 The Canadian federal government has decided to end its contracts nationwide with minority-faith chaplains who had been working part-time in the country’s federal prisons. Full-time chaplains who remain will be expected to provide spiritual guidance to inmates of all faiths. Finance minister Vic Toews ordered a stop to…
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, the deputy chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations said that representatives of other religious ought to participate in organizing people’s guards in Russia. “I don’t see any obstacles to making people’s guards inter-religious, at least, where followers of other religions will be ready to participate in them. It…
