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"The New Testament can be described today as the best investigated book in the world literature”. So said Hans Kung in his book “On Being a Christian”. And he was right. Over the past 300 years, the Christian Greek scriptures have been more than investigated. They have been more thoroughly dissected and minutely analysed than any other literature. Conclusions reached by some investigators The conclusions reached by some investigators have been bizzare. Back in the 19th century, Ludwig Noack in Germany concluded that the Gospel of John was written in 60 C.E. by the beloved disciple who, according to Noack, was Judas! The Frenchman Joseph Ernest Renan suggested that the resurrection of Lazarus was likely a fraud arranged by Lazarus himself to support Jesus’ claim of being a miracle worker, while the German theologian Gustav Volkmar insisted that the historical Jesus could not possibly have come forward with Messianic claims. Bruno Bauer, on the other hand , decided that Jesus n...

  The religious composition of Indians who emigrate differs significantly from those who stay in India, analysis by the US-based Pew Research Center has found. About 80% of people in India are Hindu, but they form only 41% of emigrants from the country, the survey on the religious composition of the world's migrants says. In contrast, about 15% of people living in India are Muslim, compared with 33% of those who were born in India and now live elsewhere. Christians make up only about 2% of the Indian population, but 16% who have left India are Christian. "Many more Muslims and Christians have left India than have moved there. People of other, smaller religions, like Sikhs and Jains, are also disproportionately likely to have left India," Stephanie Kramer, a lead researcher of the analysis, told me. More than 280 million people, or 3.6% of the world’s population, are international migrants. As of 2020, Christians comprised 47% of the global migrant population, Muslims 29%...

An alysing The Conventional Arms Transfers To Developing Nations report For The Period 1994-2001 According to the conventional arms transfers report released in 2002, the United States had the largest share of both new contracts and deliveries to the world for at least 8 years in a row. In a calendar year 2001, U.S. arms manufacturers made new agreements worth $12.1 billion and delivered $9.7 billion worth of arms, capturing 45% of both markets. The United States’ closest competitor, Russia, came in a distant second with $5.8 billion in new contracts and $3.6 billion in arms deliveries. The four European exporters combined France, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy only totaled $4.5 billion, and deliveries were only worth $5.1 billion. While the report already shows the United States dominating the world arms market, it's statistics for the United States are actually on the low side.Data on new U.S. sales agreements only included government to government sales, leaving out pote...

  "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." —Marcus Garvey Born Marcus Mosiah Garvey on August 17, 1887, in St Ann's Bay, Garvey was one of 11 children of Marcus Garvey Sr and Sarah Jane Richards. He attended school in Jamaica until the age of 14. He was an apprentice in a print shop before he left Jamaica for Costa Rica and later London, where he studied law and philosophy at Birkbeck College in Bloomsbury. Garvey returned to Jamaica in 1927.  He would set up several pan-Africanism movements before returning to London.  Marcus Garvey was the father of the black nationalist and pan african movements, activist & founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) He advanced a Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism. Garveyism would eventually inspire others, from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement. He also crea...

Southern California has been shaken by two recent earthquakes greater than magnitude 4.0. The way they were experienced in Los Angeles has a lot to do with the sediment-filled basin the city sits upon. A little over an hour after sunset on 6 August 2024, a sparsely populated belt of farmland near Bakersfield, Southern California, was shaken from a restful evening. A magnitude 5.2 earthquake, followed by hundreds of smaller aftershocks, shuddered through the area as a fault near the southern end of the Central Valley ruptured. It wasn't a terribly unusual event, by California's standards. The state is the second-most seismically active in the United States behind Alaska, with Southern California experiencing an earthquake on average every three minutes. While most are too small to be felt, around 15-20 events exceed magnitude 4.0 each year. This latest magnitude 5.2 earthquake is the largest to hit Southern California in three years. The epicenter was about 17 miles (27km) south...

  Nibha Kumari, a resident of Bihar, India’s poorest state, recalls how a bicycle transformed her life when she turned 15. For two years, six days a week, she cycled two hours daily from home to school and coaching classes and back, using a bicycle provided by the state government. “If I didn’t have a cycle, I don’t think I could have finished high school. It changed my life,” says Nibha, now 27. The daughter of a farmer from Begusarai district, Nibha was sent to live with her aunt 10km (six miles) away to attend a nearby primary school. Mobility was challenging for girls and public transport was unreliable. When Nibha returned home for high school, she hopped on a bicycle, navigating the rough village roads to pursue her education. “Girls have gained a lot of confidence after they began using bicycles to go to schools and coaching classes. More and more of them are going to school now. Most of them have free bicycles,” says Bhuvaneshwari Kumari, a health worker in Begusarai. She's...

  The Democratic National Convention is set to kick off on Monday as Gaza protests threaten to overshadow what is expected to be a show of unity for Vice-President Kamala Harris as the party's nominee for president. The Harris campaign is hoping the Chicago convention will serve as a jubilant celebration following President Joe Biden's abrupt exit from the race in July. But some worry that an internal party debate over the war in Gaza could undercut Democrats' harmony during the convention and ahead of the November election - which is fewer than 80 days away. The convention will culminate on Thursday with Ms Harris giving a primetime speech after she formally accepts the party's nomination. President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, other party royals, and a star-studded cast of actors and entertainers will take the stage at the United Center in Chicago this week to praise the vice-president and sharpen their attacks ...