ISTANBUL, Sep 17 (IPS) - In another attempt to mollify the Islamic world following apologies from the Vatican earlier, Pope Benedict XVI personally intervened during his Angelus, the traditional Sunday noon blessing, to reject any anti-Islam sentiment, and appeal for

Diane Winston: Here s a tip: Before filing a story, check the archives. Maybe someone else s reporting will provide context for your own. Sounds like Journalism 101, much too basic for old hands at the nation s top newspapers.

By S. Brent PlateNoted last week by CNN, NBC, NPR, and multiple newspapers, Baylor University's "Institute for Studies of Religion" has just released the findings of a major survey on religious beliefs in the United States. The full title of

Pope Benedict has hit out at Islam and its concept of holy war. The thinly veiled attack on Islam came during a theological lecture...

We the Indian Muslim Community as well as the secular masses of India are extremely perturbed....

Final Report of the International Civil Society and Parliamentary Peace Mission to Lebanon

Investigating the acts of terrorism and pinpointing the culprits is not an easy job. With the prejudiced mindset of the powers that be...

Pope Benedict's statements about Islam's violent history, which I dismissed Friday as the pope being Catholic, have, ironically, sparked violence and threats of more violence. Rioting yesterday caused substantial property damage but, thankfully, no reports of injuries. Palestinians wielding guns

It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not. - Wei Wu Wei, "Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon"...

In Alexander Kiy's new fiction novel, "Fear Kindness Love / Earth Ascending 2012," Al-Qaeda's trademark one-two-three punch -for near simultaneous terror attacks on three different targets has the secondary effect of ripping an etheric hole in the space-time continuum. (PRWEB

Consider the words of a "provocative" woman, so-called by obituaries around the world: "Jews breed like rats."

VATICAN CITY, Sept. 16 -- Pope Benedict XVI "sincerely regrets" offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval text that characterizes some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," a senior Vatican official said in a

KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 16 -- Three Afghan aid workers were killed Saturday when their vehicle hit a bomb on a highway just south of the capital, while 7,000 Afghan and U.S. troops launched an operation against Taliban insurgents in five

George W. Bush turns the presidential podium into a pulpit and declares that a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion is sweeping the United States, partly because of the war on terror. Two previous &ldquoawakenings" took place in the eighteenth and

Have both major political parties dropped even the pretense of defending the separation of government and religion? Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. outdoes even the Republican religious right, and films a television ad in a Baptist church in

Oriana Fallaci, a bold and abrasive journalist who used merciless grilling to make some of the world's movers and shakers, from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Henry Kissinger, lower their guard, has died in her native Florence...&rdsquo; During her half-century career,

From the Sunday Herald : WHEN broadcaster Dominik Diamond travelled to the Philippines to be crucified for a television documentary he failed to go through with the religious act â€Â" but found his faith. In an interview with the Sunday

From MSNBC : The San Diego Church of Christ is Beam’s sponsoring group today, but as far as he is concerned it could be any conservative Christian denomination. The message would be the same: Married Christians ought to be having