Pakistan is home to a diverse mosaic of religious communities, including Christians, Hindus, Sikhs, Kalash, Bahai, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians, all of whom coexist alongside the Muslim majority. From the very inception of
As heatwaves become more frequent and intense due to climate change, researchers are urging a fundamental shift in how societies prepare for extreme heat. A new analysis published in Nature argues that
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Editorial When the jackpot owner Lawrence Ho declared that Sri Lanka could become to India what Macau is to China, he may have intended it as a compliment — a bold vision
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This is a story of the Immortal Diamond, the Cherry on the Knickerbocker Glory of Anglicanism. The Anglican Church in Wales has just elected its new primate. This is the Bishop of
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Each year, the first week of August is observed across the globe as World Breastfeeding Week, a gentle reminder of a truth known to humankind long before the formulation of public policy
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The UN’s top refugee official has warned that severe funding cuts to the agency tasked with protecting displaced people are already fuelling a rise in migration to Europe — and urged EU
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The seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time this year coincided with a day of profound symbolism: the twenty-seventh of July, which the international community has dedicated to grandparents and the elderly. In a
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A horrifying statistic hovers over the poorer nations: 3.4 billion people now live in countries that spend more on interest payments for public debt than on education or health. In 2024, according
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Tensions between the United States and Israel have reached a new low after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu defied repeated warnings from the Biden administration and escalated Israeli military strikes inside Syria, targeting
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A decade ago, I was a fly on the wall during a trade negotiation between the United States and a small country in Southeast Asia. What interested me was not the substance
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Editorial It is a bleak indictment of our epoch that the language of reason, morality, and international law now rings hollow against the roar of missiles and the bluster of sociopaths in
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