Ayatollah Seyed Salman Safavi The following is based on the contribution of Ayatollah Safavi to this week’s recent debate on … More
Category: Religious
Bishop Angaelos on the War in Ukraine
His Eminence Coptic Orthodox Archbishop Angaelos, has been a key interlocutor in the Religious Affairs Advisory Council of the Next … More
A story of segregation: the rise of factitious Christian Europe and Islamic Middle East
The ongoing plummet of Christians living in the Middle East backed by European leader’s preferential treatment of non-Muslim refugees seeking … More
Jonathan Sacks, a great thinker, a great man
The Next Century Foundation is deeply sadened to report the death of former Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks. He was one … More
Are we born like this or did we learn this growing up?
The word “racism” was only added to the Oxford English Dictionary less than a hundred years ago, but racism started … More
Why the Chief Rabbi was (almost) right
About two weeks before the 2019 parliamentary elections, UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis wrote an article for The Times accusing … More
Nematollahi persecution in Iran: derision and violence solves nothing
Since 2005, tensions between the Iranian authorities and the largest Sufi sect in the country, the Nematollahi Gonobadi, have been … More
Don’t Forget Me
“And, sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion”, (William Shakespeare, Coriolanus). This is my … More
Ruminations of a Sufi Master
Sufism is a means of focussing away from the commonplace, and the temporal, and transcending oneself as a means of … More
Orthodox Russia – an Ideology of Exclusivity
The links between the Orthodox Church and the Russian state have grown closer and closer in the last five years, … More
بناء عالم أفضل
الخنجر والرصاصة والقنبلة، لا يعرفون الأخلاق، غايتهم القتل وإنزال الضرر. ولكن من يملكون هذه الأسلحة، هم كائنات أخلاقية اختارت العنف. … More
Poland’s authoritarian turn?
The recent decision by Poland’s government to pass a law that weakens the judiciary’s independence raises concerns on the overall … More
The Blade, the Bullet and the Bomb
The blade the bullet and the bomb know no morality, they have one purpose only, to kill and injure. Those … More
FGM: Why have we not eradicated it yet?
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) causes severe bleeding and health issues including cysts, infections, infertility as well as complications in childbirth. … More
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Bishop Michael Ipgrave on the Middle East Migration Crisis
The following is a speech given by Bishop Michael Ipgrave, Bishop of Lichfield, for the Conference on the Middle East Migration … More
The Political Economy of Sectarianism
The recent execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, among others, and the ‘predictable’ regional reaction risks enforcing ideas of primordial battle … More
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