Blog Posts - Religions

Some of the collections of texts that make up the Bible are considered sacred by 54% of world population believe in the Abrahamic religions.We include Christianity, Judaism, Islam and other religious movements such as the Rastafari invoice. Of course...

Quran’s Lesson - Surah Hud 11, Verse 85-86, Part 12وَيَا قَوْمِ أَوْفُوا الْمِكْيَالَ وَالْمِيزَانَ بِالْقِسْطِ ۖ وَلَا تَبْخَسُوا النَّاسَ أَشْيَاءَهُمْ و...

Sri Surya Pahar – A confluence of the three religions Source: Sri Surya Pahar – A confluence of the three religions...

There have been several articles in the UK media showing that the number of people who believe in life after death has increased. It's now at about 74% according to surveys - and this is despite the numbers of people going to church, and being involv...

Did you ever notice  Egypt and the Egyptians in all the stories of Victims in the Book of Genesis?  Victims facing what I would call capital punishment? Ishmael. After the forced relocations. Taking it personally – the crime, in the family. The n...

We live not far from an upscale mall. This mall, although over 30 miles from Manhattan, has its own bus line dedicated to it by New Jersey Transit. There is a route that runs throughout the day from the City … Continue reading →...

Marco Palmezzano: Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth (ca. 1490), public domain. Joel Kontinen We seem to have a universal need for searching for answers to life’s ultimate questions. Christianity gives us answers to the big issues humanity is f...

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'My Mediterranean With Adrian Chiles' - doesn't give you many clues to the subject matter. Football stadiums on the med? One Bloke in a Boat?  It's so much better than that: “Jesus said, ‘The meek will inherit the earth.’ Well, they might do...

Battle of Lepanto 1571I've never really understood how religious leaders can be part of any war or get involved. But they do, and as a consequence I came across a short coincidence story to write about - or maybe it was a premonition, or even telepat...

Battle of Lepanto 1571I've never really understood how religious leaders can be part of any war or get involved. But they do, and as a consequence I came across a short coincidence story to write about - or maybe it was a premonition, or even telepat...

There shall be wars, and rumors of wars. The Bible says nothing about being able to declare what future people might have to say about God. According to a story on the Washington Post website, Larycia Hawkins, a political science … Continue rea...

Why  25 December Two Theories  (Computationist theory  or Religions theory)? – Christmas Day :-Two sets of hypotheses or theories have been offered to explain why 25th December was chosen as the feast of the Nativity. The first is based on t...

Father William Grimm, M.M.Photo courtesy: www.ucanews.com/ Father William Grimm, M.M., publisher of the UCANews -- an independent Catholic news agency in Asia, on November 20, wrote a commentary on 'Ours is a religion of peace.' In this wri...

In 1980 researchers in Jerusalem got quite excited when they found three burial caskets, which they dated from the 1st century. Okay no great discovery, but there was another important bit to the find. The caskets each bore a name: Joseph, Mary and J...

“Losing my religion,” I learned some time ago, means “going crazy” in some regions. It was that REM song that made me look it up. Losing My Religion, by William Lobdell, is much more literal. Having a hunger for spiritual R...

Behold the Handmaid of the Lord! In every story of the Hebrew Bible there is, when Abraham’s descendants are involved, the looking back, like for Lot’s wife. After all of the nameless received names. Had you watched the news-clips this week from...

Clay pots made by the Gaunches of TenerifePlato described a rich and happy land in the Atlantic which was virtually destroyed by earthquakes and tidal waves some 12,000 years ago. This was Atlantis and many locals are convinced that the Canary Island...

A quotation of Charles Caleb Colton on 'religion,' compiled by Jerome D'CostaDoodle (Going to the church: June 23,1994) © Jerome D'Costa...

A map of Canada Map courtesy: Shutterstock.comA recent Angus Reid Institute survey shows that Canadians "are increasingly becoming ambivalent about religion or rejecting it outright, but people across the religion spectrum admire the Pope," repo...

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