Sunni v Shia: why the conflict is more political than religious. Time was, across the Arab world, that it was simply rude to ask people their religion or sect, even if it was obvious from their name, their accent, from where they lived or worshipped or the pictures on their walls that they were a Sunni Muslim, Shia, or Christian.
Schoolgirl jihadis: the female Islamists leaving home to join Isis fighters. Hundreds of young women and girls are leaving their homes in western countries to join Islamic fighters in the Middle East, causing increasing concern among counter-terrorism investigators.
Girls as young as 14 or 15 are travelling mainly to Syria to marry jihadis, bear their children and join communities of fighters, with a small number taking up arms. Many are recruited via social media. Women and girls appear to make up about 10% of those leaving Europe, North America and Australia to link up with jihadi groups, including Islamic State (Isis).
France has the highest number of female jihadi recruits, with 63 in the region – about 25% of the total – and at least another 60 believed to be considering the move. Five people, including a sister and brother, were arrested in France earlier this month suspected of belonging to a ring in central France that specialised in recruiting young French women, according to Bernard Cazeneuve, the interior minister. Inside world of Nepalese child deities who are forbidden from WALKING until puberty. The 'living goddesses' are chosen as infants and adored by thousands of Hindus and Buddhists until menstruationThe Kumaris are an incarnation of the goddess Kali and are seen as protectors from evil and a bestower of good luck The young girls are sheltered away - and cannot go to school - until they are required at festivals and processions By Steph Cockroft Published: 16:29 GMT, 10 June 2014 | Updated: 18:16 GMT, 10 June 2014.
Richard Dawkins habla del ateísmo militante. Neil deGrasse Tyson: Atheist or Agnostic? Lesley Hazleton: La duda esencial para la fe. China and the Vatican: Singing from the same hymnal. Vatican Suspends German Bishop Accused of Lavish Spending on Himself. Narendra Dabholkar. Does the new Pope believe in evolution? Infographic: A Venn Diagram Designed To Anger The Irrational. Oh boy.
Hans Küng. Hans Küng Hans Küng (Sursee, Cantón de Lucerna, 19 de marzo de 1928), es un sacerdote católico, teólogo controvertido y prolífico autor.
Desde 1995 es Presidente de la Fundación por una Ética Mundial (Stiftung Weltethos). Küng es "un sacerdote católico en activo",[1] pero el Vaticano ha anulado su autoridad para enseñar teología católica. A pesar de ello permanece en la Universidad de Tübingen como profesor de Teología Ecuménica, donde imparte clases como profesor emérito desde 1996. A pesar de no tener permiso para enseñar teología católica, ni su obispo ni la Santa Sede han revocado sus facultades sacerdotales. Biografía[editar] Nacido el 19 de marzo de 1928, en Sursee (Cantón de Lucerna), Suiza. En 1962 fue nombrado oficialmente por el papa Juan XXIII como perito del Concilio Vaticano II.
Slum Priests: Pope Francis's Early Years - Haley Cohen. 'Padre Bergoglio' once recruited clergymen to minister in Buenos Aires's poor, dangerous 'villas miserias.' Residents of the Villa 21-24 slum walk past the Virgin of Caacupe chapel, where then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) of Argentina used to give mass, in the Barracas neighborhood of Buenos Aires on March 14, 2013.
(Enrique Marcarian/Reuters) For Father Gustavo Carrara, a day's work might mean finding someone to accompany a pregnant drug addict to the hospital, seeking housing for a homeless orphan, or consoling a woman whose husband was killed in a narco-fueled gunfight. Carrara runs the Saint Mary Mother of the People parish, located inside Villa 1-11-14, one of Buenos Aires' largest and most dangerous slums.
He was recruited personally to serve there by Pope Francis I, who was then Archbishop of Buenos Aires. Since assuming his post as Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, Pope Francis I has worked to revive and fortify the Catholic movement in the villas. Pope Francis I: Papal Rule On Celibacy 'Can Be Changed' Before he was Pope Francis the man who was known as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio spoke to Rabbi Abraham Skorka on the issue in a 2012 Spanish-language book “Sobre el Cielo y la Tierra” (“On the Heavens and the Earth”).
In the interview, translated by the Catholic-oriented Aleteia, Pope Francis revealed that during seminary, he was “dazzled by a girl” that caused him to consider leaving the priesthood. Pope Francis's book reveals a radical progressive in the making. In his own words, Pope Francis comes over as a clever, thoughtful and skilful mixture of social conservative and radical progressive who preaches zero tolerance of pederast priests but whose own behaviour during the terror of Argentina's military juntas remains decidedly blurred.
In his latest book, On Earth and Heaven, the man then known as Jorge Bergoglio, discusses the divine and the mundane with the prominent Jewish rabbi Abraham Skorka in a series of conversations published in 2010. Special report: The damning documents that show new Pope DID betray tortured priests to the junta. Priest said Pope spread rumours and made him target of death squadsClaimed Pope also told regime he collaborated with guerrillasReport says priests seized by 200 armed troops, drugged, tortured and held for fives months then dumped half naked in a fieldPope Francis denies claims he was in league with the generals By Sharon Churcher and Tom Worden Published: 23:56 GMT, 16 March 2013 | Updated: 14:59 GMT, 17 March 2013 Damning evidence that Pope Francis may have betrayed two priests who were kidnapped and tortured by Argentina’s brutal military junta can be revealed today.
The Mail on Sunday has seen documents which appear to show the new Pope secretly collaborated with the country’s dictatorship when he was head of the Jesuits there – using his real name Jorge Bergoglio – during the Dirty War that started in the Seventies.