Tag Archive: Christians

Youths In Singapore Shunning Religion

The Department of Statistics’ General Household Survey 2015 report released earlier this month found that those who said they had no religious affiliation constituted 18.5 per cent of the resident population last year – up from 17 per cent in…
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Pansexual Local Teen To Christian Parents: Watching Movie With Gay Characters Won’t Make One Gay

Twitter user @bxbyqueen shared a conversation she and her mother had on a private Whatsapp group. In the conversation, the mother referred to a Straits Times reportt on the National Council of Churches of Singapore’s (NCCS) letter to churches which urged pastors to…
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The Singapore Muslim Community And The Imam Issue

By Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Associate Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University It is well-known that Singapore is a multi-religious society. The 2014 report by Pew named our city-state as the most religiously diverse among the 232 countries studied. What is…
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Commentary: Supplication Has Been Commonly Recited In Mosques Here For Many Many Years

Someone shared this on Facebook:   “Dear Sir. I spent 10 years in a local madrasah system where I studied Arabic as a language and learnt Islamic religious subjects also in Arabic. Following that, I went on to do a…
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Shanmugam: Religious Preachers Who Attack Other Religions Won’t Be Tolerated

Religious preaching that encourages violence or pits one religion against another will not be tolerated in Singapore, said Minister for Home Affairs and Law K Shanmugam in Parliament on Friday (Mar 3). Referring to a video posted on social media…
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