Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says he accepts the recent announcement of Buddhist prelates and will take steps to set up a council to dispel the suspicions and misconceptions among religions and build religious reconciliation. The premier told a function in Baddegama recently that a religious reconciliation council will be established under the leadership…
On 16 May 2019, a group of Buddhists in Myanmar’s capital, Yangon, launched a ‘White Rose’ campaign which offers roses to Muslims who are fasting during Ramadan. The campaign was organized to show solidarity with Muslims after Buddhist mobs gathered around a number of temporary Muslim prayer houses and demanded that prayer services be suspended.…
Arrest Warrant issued on Anti-Muslim Monk Yangon: The Myanmar police have issued an arrest warrant against Wirathu, an ultra-nationalist Buddhist monk known for his anti-Muslim stance. The warrant was issued under Article 124(a) of the legal code, which forbids incitement of hatred or contempt against the government. The monk is accused of making defamatory remarks…
Humankind is revealed as simultaneously insignificant and utterly dominant in the grand scheme of life on Earth by a groundbreaking new assessment of all life on the planet. The world’s 7.6 billion people represent just 0.01 percent of all living things, according to the study. Yet since the dawn of civilization, humanity has caused the…
Based in New Delhi, Centre for Peace and Spirituality (CPS), founded by Islamic scholar Maulana Wahiduddin Khan, has been involved in disseminating the message of the Quran to people around the world in their own language. So far, translations are available in about 30 national and international languages. CPS generally engages in free distribution of…
National Academic Depository The Union Government has come up with a facility whereby students can store their degrees in a website managed by the Ministry for Human Resources. These can be retrieved any time and from anywhere when needed or employers can be referred to see and verify them by using the unique number or…
Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church, has declared a global “climate emergency,” warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations.” The pontiff also endorsed the 1.5C limit on temperature rises that…
US President Donald Trump has been accused of creating a “phony” emergency to bypass Congress to approve an $8 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia. The White House said it was making an emergency provision within the country’s arms control law to enable the billions of dollars of arms sales to the Saudi kingdom and…
The United Nations has established an International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. The U.N.’s General Assembly passed the resolution without objection recently, setting August 22 as the day commemorating victims of anti-religious violence. “The world has been experiencing an unprecedented rise of violence against religious communities and…
Muslims and Christians take steps towards reconciliation Recently, a group of Muslims visited Christian widows and orphans in north western Nigeria and donated food, clothing and school items as part of efforts to enhance peaceful coexistence among different faiths. “I can’t believe they came and visited me,” said Judy Ugwu, a mother of four who…
