Packaging in a limited range of KitKat chocolate bars has prompted furor over depictions of sacred Hindu deities Nestle has been forced to apologize and recall a range of KitKat chocolate bars that featured images of Hindu deities on their wrappers, after a furious backlash from Indian social media users, who criticized the company for […]
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NASA looks to religious scholars for answers
NASA has enlisted the help of theologians to examine how the world would react if sentient life was found on other planets and what impacts such a discovery would have on deeply-held beliefs about divinity and creation. The US space agency has recruited some 24 scholars so far to participate in a program at Princeton […]
Law protecting religious people from ‘cancel culture’ in the works
The Australian government introduced a highly debated piece of legislation on Thursday that would protect the right of people of faith to express their religious beliefs without being “cancelled or persecuted or vilified.” The law, put forward by Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a devout Christian, aims to protect Australians from existing anti-discrimination legislation when they […]
Crypto trade FORBIDDEN for Muslims, largest Islamic nation’s religious council rules
Cryptocurrency trading has been deemed ‘haram’ – or forbidden – by one of Indonesia’s top religious authorities, urging some 230 million Muslims in the world’s largest Islamic country to drop coins that run afoul of Sharia law. The Indonesian Ulema Council, known locally as the MUI, issued the anti-crypto fatwa on Thursday, with Asrorun Niam […]
People linked to Cannes knife attacker ‘shouting religious slogans’ arrested
Authorities in France have arrested three individuals who they say have ties to the man who stabbed an officer in the chest outside a police station on Monday. The three people arrested were relatives of the attacker, with one of them working for him and another having ‘housed’ him, French media reported, citing police sources. The […]
Bangladesh police arrest 450 people linked to attacks on Hindu homes and religious sites in worst unrest for over a decade
Bangladeshi police have arrested 450 people following attacks against Hindus in the Muslim-majority country in some of the worst unrest in over a decade, which has seen Hindu religious sites vandalized and homes destroyed. Authorities logged 71 cases linked to violence during the major Hindu festival of Durga Puja across different parts of Bangladesh, the […]