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At present, there aren’t even any direct flights between Pakistan and Nepal, even as Kathmandu promotes itself as the meeting place of South Asia, noted journalist Kanak Mani Dixit.

At present, there aren’t even any direct flights between Pakistan and Nepal, even as Kathmandu promotes itself as the meeting place of South Asia, noted journalist Kanak Mani Dixit.

“Nones” now comprise 28 percent of the American adult population, according to survey data that the Pew Research Center released this month. Sixteen years

Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 10 December 2022 – The Board of Executive Directors of the AAA-rated Jeddah-headquartered Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) today approved US$ 363.6 million to finance new development projects in eleven member countries. At its 348th meeting held on 10 December, the Board also approved the Bank's Integrated Work Program 2023-2025 and Budget 2023 and  the markup rate applicable from 1 January 2023 to 30 June 2023 for OCR Sovereign Projects' Fina...

Rights groups condemn ministers proposal to hold a Hijab Day on International Womens Day

Something novel happened during this century’s first decade: Social scientists (re)discovered the nonreligious. Call it “reaching critical ma ss” or a “tipping point,” but suddenly quite a few researchers in quite a few places began to focus their attention directly on the nonreligious—not just ...

Canadian Hadassah-WIZO (CHW) recently announced that Dollard des Ormeaux’s Alanna Elias, formerly the Montreal Centre Coordinator, has been promoted to Director of Development, Eastern Canada.

In 2011, Pitzer College offered the first—and still the only—college major in secular studies. The prime mover behind that initiative was Dr. Phil Zuckerman, who in 2011 wrote that he could “sense the thirst out there. So many students, perhaps galvanized by the New Atheists, wanted to take classes that challenged religious worldviews, explored the social construction of religion, articulated rational ethics, provided a social grounding in evolution, and the like” (“Secular Studies Ar...