Catholic guilt has been laid to rest and even most Mass-going Catholics no longer feel guilty about sexual sins, according to research in the United Kingdom. While a poll of 4437 adults detected no evidence that Catholics feel more guilty about sexual sins than other religious people, it found that religious people in general feel Read more
Contrary to widespread public perception, the proportion of Christians in Lebanon is increasing and could rise by over a third by 2030. And because hundreds of thousands of overseas Lebanese are eligible to vote, 40 per cent of Lebanese on the electoral roll will be Christian by 2040. Reasons for the increase among Christians include Read more
More than 80 per cent of the world’s people identify with a religious group — but unbelievers, including atheists and agnostics, are now the third largest grouping. These results come from a new demographic study carried out by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. Christians, with 2.2 billion or 32 per Read more
A German court has rejected identity and history in favour of a liberal concept of choice, but there’s more to right and wrong. In November 2010, a Muslim doctor in Germany carried out a circumcision on a four-year old-boy at the request of his parents. A few days later the boy started bleeding and was Read more
Imams in Glasgow have told all Muslims throughout Scotland not to vote for any local election candidate on 3 May who supports redefining marriage. The news will trouble the leaders of major parties, all of whom have indicated their personal support for the plan. A statement was issued yesterday by the Council of Glasgow Imams Read more
The Red Bull energy drink company has dropped the ‘Jesus walks on water‘ campaign in South Africa. The campaign originally aired on Tuesday but was gone by Wednesday after successful protests from Catholics and Muslims who labelled the ad ‘offensive’. The cartoon ad picks up on the familiar Gospel story of Jesus walking on the Read more
Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God ? Muslims claim that “There is only one God and Mohammed is his prophet.” while Christians claim that “There is only one God and Jesus is his Son”. Clearly we are in disagreement about Mohammed and Jesus, for even though Muslims say they believe in Jesus as a Read more