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
Posts Tagged ‘Muslims’
Unbelievers number next to Christians and Muslims
Friday, December 21st, 2012
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
Circumcision ban is an affront to Jewish and Muslim identity
Friday, July 20th, 2012
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 tell all Muslims: vote to defend marriage
Friday, April 20th, 2012Imams 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
Aired on Tuesday dropped on Wednesday: Red Bull pulls Jesus ad
Friday, March 16th, 2012
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?
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
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