I met the late activist Swami Agnivesh in May 2018, two months before he was attacked by Bharatiya Janata Party-linked mobs in Jharkhand. Relaxed between travels, he sat sipping tea in his Delhi office in a swelter of saffron. A pot-bellied, clear-skinned man with silver-rimmed glasses and veined hands, ...
This article originally appeared on a new site about the Christian renaissance in Russia, called Russian Faith. Father Andrew Phillips, is a long-serving priest in the ROCOR Orthodox church in Essex, UK. Biography. He is a prolific writer, particularly on Russian history and current events, from an Orthodox Christian perspective. In this ...
Saudi Arabia is facing international criticism after closing the trial of those who murdered the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A court overturned five death sentences, reducing them to 20-year prison terms instead. Three others were jailed for between seven and 10 years. Those behind the hit squad that killed Khashoggi ...
The story of how the U.S. learned that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the architect of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 is one of tenacity, guile, and no small measure of serendipity. “We Forrest Gumped ourselves into it,” former FBI agent Ali Soufan, the Bureau member who first discovered ...
How did Pakistan get to celebrate a day before India?According to the Islamic calendar, August 14 coincide with Ramadan 27, the eve of which, being Laylat al-Qadr, is regarded as sacred by Muslims.Viceroy Mountbatten chose August 15 as transfer of power to India, the second anniversary of Japan's surrender ...