#religión — Public Fediverse posts
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Politico: House lawmakers visit Vatican to discuss AI — and meet the pope. “A bipartisan House delegation met with top Vatican officials on Wednesday to discuss artificial intelligence during a visit that briefly included Pope Leo XIV, according to two people with knowledge of the trip granted anonymity to disclose details of the private meetings.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/14/politico-house-lawmakers-visit-vatican-to-discuss-ai-and-meet-the-pope/ -
Politico: House lawmakers visit Vatican to discuss AI — and meet the pope. “A bipartisan House delegation met with top Vatican officials on Wednesday to discuss artificial intelligence during a visit that briefly included Pope Leo XIV, according to two people with knowledge of the trip granted anonymity to disclose details of the private meetings.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/14/politico-house-lawmakers-visit-vatican-to-discuss-ai-and-meet-the-pope/ -
📰 ‘Two Religion Community Life’ Case Study in Phattalung, Southeast Thailand (A free, 12-page article from 2020)
Tags: #Society #Religion #Thailand #Enculturation #Dialogue #Relationships #ASEAN
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/preserving-values_sumarni-kalupae -
📰 ‘Two Religion Community Life’ Case Study in Phattalung, Southeast Thailand (A free, 12-page article from 2020)
Tags: #Society #Religion #Thailand #Enculturation #Dialogue #Relationships #ASEAN
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/preserving-values_sumarni-kalupae -
A GOP rep who kept saying Muslims and gay people have no place in the United States lost his election.
"The loss follows a string of controversial comments made by the politician at the expense of marginalised groups, like Muslims and the LGBTQ+ community."
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/08/10/maga-republican-andy-ogles-loses-re-election-bid/
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A GOP rep who kept saying Muslims and gay people have no place in the United States lost his election.
"The loss follows a string of controversial comments made by the politician at the expense of marginalised groups, like Muslims and the LGBTQ+ community."
https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/08/10/maga-republican-andy-ogles-loses-re-election-bid/
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@feather1952 @economics_that_works @DigitalCoup @meditation
Heather, that’s exactly it for me as well.
I’m not particularly interested in living forever. I’m interested in still being recognisably myself in my 80s and 90s, still walking, thinking, laughing, writing, annoying people, and participating in life.
And I think there’s a danger in turning any one way of eating into a religion. If three meals a day suits you and you’re 74, fit and healthy, that’s pretty good evidence that you’re doing something right for you.
Here’s to being troublesome centenarians. 😄
#laughing #people #danger #pretty #evidence #religion #healthy #walking #fast
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@feather1952 @economics_that_works @DigitalCoup @meditation
Heather, that’s exactly it for me as well.
I’m not particularly interested in living forever. I’m interested in still being recognisably myself in my 80s and 90s, still walking, thinking, laughing, writing, annoying people, and participating in life.
And I think there’s a danger in turning any one way of eating into a religion. If three meals a day suits you and you’re 74, fit and healthy, that’s pretty good evidence that you’re doing something right for you.
Here’s to being troublesome centenarians. 😄
#laughing #people #danger #pretty #evidence #religion #healthy #walking #fast
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"It’s not every day you see baseball fans in religious vestments drinking beer and eating hot dogs, but at Rate Field on Tuesday, the holy and the profane met to celebrate the Chicago White Sox’s No. 1 fan at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV":
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7507490/2026/08/12/pope-hat-night-chicago-white-sox-sellout/ #religion #sports -
"It’s not every day you see baseball fans in religious vestments drinking beer and eating hot dogs, but at Rate Field on Tuesday, the holy and the profane met to celebrate the Chicago White Sox’s No. 1 fan at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV":
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7507490/2026/08/12/pope-hat-night-chicago-white-sox-sellout/ #religion #sports -
🧵 Reincarnation vs Christian Dogma: A Theological Clash 🔥
#errtlings #bookcafe #opinion #deep-thought #conflict #control
#Christianity #Reincarnation #Theology #Resurrection #Faith #Religion #Soul #Belief #Doctrine #Christendom #Salvation #OriginalSin #BodilyResurrection #Moksha #Nirvana #Samsara -
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KmV8HSEf7jI?is=o9Acz0h8NsHyrOc5
#NancyMace #Hater #Constitution #USA #Politics #SouthCarolina #Republican #GOP #Religion #Law #Justice #Separation #Church #State #Ignorance #Violation #Treason #Traitor #Prejudice #Congress #USHouse #Representative #Confederate #Election #Vote #Activism #Remove #Committees #Speaker
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KmV8HSEf7jI?is=o9Acz0h8NsHyrOc5
#NancyMace #Hater #Constitution #USA #Politics #SouthCarolina #Republican #GOP #Religion #Law #Justice #Separation #Church #State #Ignorance #Violation #Treason #Traitor #Prejudice #Congress #USHouse #Representative #Confederate #Election #Vote #Activism #Remove #Committees #Speaker
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Ein Lokalaugenschein fünf Jahre nach der Rückkehr der #Taliban an die #Macht in #Afghanistan. Die Repressionen gegen #Frauen sind härter denn je.
Alte #Männer, #Tradition und #Religion ergeben puren #Wahnsinn.
25 Minuten Reportage - #sehenswert
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/131819-000-A/afghanistan-sie-schikanieren-aerztinnen/
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Ein Lokalaugenschein fünf Jahre nach der Rückkehr der #Taliban an die #Macht in #Afghanistan. Die Repressionen gegen #Frauen sind härter denn je.
Alte #Männer, #Tradition und #Religion ergeben puren #Wahnsinn.
25 Minuten Reportage - #sehenswert
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/131819-000-A/afghanistan-sie-schikanieren-aerztinnen/
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When thinking about what 1990s Norwegian Black Metal meant in its cultural context, it's notable that this evil genre with its Satanic lyrics was created in a country where most people believed neither in God nor the Devil. A young Satanist musician was in fact *more religious* than the average Norwegian.
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When thinking about what 1990s Norwegian Black Metal meant in its cultural context, it's notable that this evil genre with its Satanic lyrics was created in a country where most people believed neither in God nor the Devil. A young Satanist musician was in fact *more religious* than the average Norwegian.
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(14/15) ... Paris/Versailles = s’assurer du soutien militaire fr contre Empire UK/Nations amérindiennes concurrentes #terre #economie #politique (cf 1777 1778 1785 1787).
-> Père fondateur Thomas Jefferson nourri des Lumières : exerce forte influence sur l’instauration de droits autour de la liberté d’expression #presse et religieuse #religion -> ouvre un horizon démocratique.
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#Religion If you're wondering why so many Americans are so anti-science, just look at these pages from an "A Beka" homeschool text. The same nonsense is preached in thousands of churches.
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#Religion If you're wondering why so many Americans are so anti-science, just look at these pages from an "A Beka" homeschool text. The same nonsense is preached in thousands of churches.
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Beyond the Labels: Ibn al-ʿArabī, Divine Unity and the Question of Religious Difference
A new Truthaholics study — with the fully referenced PDF available below
There are questions that cannot be settled by slogans.
Is the recognition of divine truth across different revelations the same thing as saying that every historical religious law remains equally normative forever? Does Ibn al-ʿArabī’s extraordinary language of universality dissolve prophetic law—or does his own distinction between the ontological and prescriptive orders explain how divine universality and revealed obligation coexist?
In simple terms
This study asks a simple question:
if all true revelation comes from the one God, does that mean every religion and every religious law must remain equally valid forever?
Ibn al-ʿArabī teaches us to see that everything ultimately belongs to and returns to God, while also taking seriously the guidance God gives through His prophets. Shah Walī Allāh helps explain the difference: the source of true religion is one, even though God gave different laws to different peoples and times. So recognising truth and goodness in other revelations does not require us to pretend that all religious differences mean nothing.
The deeper invitation is to look beyond labels, follow the evidence carefully, and allow the signs of creation and revelation to turn our attention towards the one Divine Reality from whom everything comes and to whom everything returns.
Our new study, Ibn al-ʿArabī on Religious Unity and Prophetic Law, examines precisely this terrain.
It brings Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ/Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ, al-Rasāʾil and al-Futūḥāt into conversation with Shāh Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī, while critically comparing the resulting picture with René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings and William C. Chittick.
The study’s governing principle is simple:
Evidence before labels.
Rather than deciding in advance that Ibn al-ʿArabī must be an “exclusivist,” “pluralist” or “Perennialist,” the paper asks what the texts themselves actually establish—and where subsequent interpretations introduce additional premises.
This matters because Ibn al-ʿArabī’s metaphysical universality is real. His Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ is his own summary of the celebrated Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam, and William Chittick’s English translation was published in the first volume of the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society in 1982. The Society itself describes the Fuṣūṣ as a major source of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s influence and notes the exceptionally large commentary tradition that developed around it. (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)
Yet the same textual world speaks seriously of prophetic revelation, sharʿ, command and obedience. The paper therefore argues that a crucial distinction must be preserved:
Nothing escapes the Divine ontologically; but ontological inclusion is not automatically identical with prescriptive approval.
Shāh Walī Allāh provides a particularly illuminating complement: the root of revealed religion is one, while prophetic laws and paths differ. Unity of divine source need not mean uniformity of historical legislation; nor does the succession of a law retroactively make an earlier genuine revelation false.
That distinction allows us to approach the Perennialist question without caricature. There are genuine and important affinities between Akbarian metaphysics and the Traditionalist recognition of transcendent unity. The narrower question is whether that metaphysical unity, by itself, proves the continuing normative equivalence of every historically distinct dispensation.
Our conclusion is deliberately proportioned to the evidence: it does not.
But this paper is not offered merely to win an argument.
At its deepest level, Ibn al-ʿArabī’s intellectual universe confronts us with something much greater than our classifications of it: the possibility that multiplicity need not obscure the One from whom it proceeds.
So we invite readers—Muslim and non-Muslim, Traditionalist and critic, believer, seeker and sceptic alike—to read slowly, follow the references, interrogate the distinctions, and resist the temptation to make Reality smaller than our inherited categories.
The point is not to manufacture an artificial sameness between religions.
Nor is it to turn religious difference into another weapon of separation.
It is to ask whether, behind our arguments about the Divine, we have actually begun to recognise the Divine.
And perhaps that is where serious inquiry becomes something more than argument:
from information to discernment,
from labels to Reality,
and from speaking about the Divine to recognising the signs that point beyond ourselves.Read the fully referenced study
The publication edition includes the comparative matrix, methodological source disclaimer, Arabic with diacritics, inline superscript references, full source apparatus, bibliography, hyperlinks, and explicit source-critical qualifications wherever edition or manuscript verification remains incomplete.
For readers wishing to examine the Akbarian source tradition further, the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society’s collection of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s writings provides Chittick’s Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ translation and other scholarly materials; its Journal archive provides a substantial body of specialist scholarship on Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Akbarian tradition. (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)
Truthaholics — Evidence before labels; truth before spin.
Truthaholics_Ibn_al_Arabi (1)Download #Allah #authenticity #childrenOfAdam #History #islam #lordOfTheWorlds #mercyForTheWorlds #perennialism #Quran #religion #universality -
Beyond the Labels: Ibn al-ʿArabī, Divine Unity and the Question of Religious Difference
A new Truthaholics study — with the fully referenced PDF available below
There are questions that cannot be settled by slogans.
Is the recognition of divine truth across different revelations the same thing as saying that every historical religious law remains equally normative forever? Does Ibn al-ʿArabī’s extraordinary language of universality dissolve prophetic law—or does his own distinction between the ontological and prescriptive orders explain how divine universality and revealed obligation coexist?
In simple terms
This study asks a simple question:
if all true revelation comes from the one God, does that mean every religion and every religious law must remain equally valid forever?
Ibn al-ʿArabī teaches us to see that everything ultimately belongs to and returns to God, while also taking seriously the guidance God gives through His prophets. Shah Walī Allāh helps explain the difference: the source of true religion is one, even though God gave different laws to different peoples and times. So recognising truth and goodness in other revelations does not require us to pretend that all religious differences mean nothing.
The deeper invitation is to look beyond labels, follow the evidence carefully, and allow the signs of creation and revelation to turn our attention towards the one Divine Reality from whom everything comes and to whom everything returns.
Our new study, Ibn al-ʿArabī on Religious Unity and Prophetic Law, examines precisely this terrain.
It brings Ibn al-ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ/Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ, al-Rasāʾil and al-Futūḥāt into conversation with Shāh Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī, while critically comparing the resulting picture with René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings and William C. Chittick.
The study’s governing principle is simple:
Evidence before labels.
Rather than deciding in advance that Ibn al-ʿArabī must be an “exclusivist,” “pluralist” or “Perennialist,” the paper asks what the texts themselves actually establish—and where subsequent interpretations introduce additional premises.
This matters because Ibn al-ʿArabī’s metaphysical universality is real. His Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ is his own summary of the celebrated Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam, and William Chittick’s English translation was published in the first volume of the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society in 1982. The Society itself describes the Fuṣūṣ as a major source of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s influence and notes the exceptionally large commentary tradition that developed around it. (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)
Yet the same textual world speaks seriously of prophetic revelation, sharʿ, command and obedience. The paper therefore argues that a crucial distinction must be preserved:
Nothing escapes the Divine ontologically; but ontological inclusion is not automatically identical with prescriptive approval.
Shāh Walī Allāh provides a particularly illuminating complement: the root of revealed religion is one, while prophetic laws and paths differ. Unity of divine source need not mean uniformity of historical legislation; nor does the succession of a law retroactively make an earlier genuine revelation false.
That distinction allows us to approach the Perennialist question without caricature. There are genuine and important affinities between Akbarian metaphysics and the Traditionalist recognition of transcendent unity. The narrower question is whether that metaphysical unity, by itself, proves the continuing normative equivalence of every historically distinct dispensation.
Our conclusion is deliberately proportioned to the evidence: it does not.
But this paper is not offered merely to win an argument.
At its deepest level, Ibn al-ʿArabī’s intellectual universe confronts us with something much greater than our classifications of it: the possibility that multiplicity need not obscure the One from whom it proceeds.
So we invite readers—Muslim and non-Muslim, Traditionalist and critic, believer, seeker and sceptic alike—to read slowly, follow the references, interrogate the distinctions, and resist the temptation to make Reality smaller than our inherited categories.
The point is not to manufacture an artificial sameness between religions.
Nor is it to turn religious difference into another weapon of separation.
It is to ask whether, behind our arguments about the Divine, we have actually begun to recognise the Divine.
And perhaps that is where serious inquiry becomes something more than argument:
from information to discernment,
from labels to Reality,
and from speaking about the Divine to recognising the signs that point beyond ourselves.Read the fully referenced study
The publication edition includes the comparative matrix, methodological source disclaimer, Arabic with diacritics, inline superscript references, full source apparatus, bibliography, hyperlinks, and explicit source-critical qualifications wherever edition or manuscript verification remains incomplete.
For readers wishing to examine the Akbarian source tradition further, the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society’s collection of Ibn al-ʿArabī’s writings provides Chittick’s Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ translation and other scholarly materials; its Journal archive provides a substantial body of specialist scholarship on Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Akbarian tradition. (Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society)
Truthaholics — Evidence before labels; truth before spin.
Truthaholics_Ibn_al_Arabi (1)Download #Allah #authenticity #childrenOfAdam #History #islam #lordOfTheWorlds #mercyForTheWorlds #perennialism #Quran #religion #universality -
The Law Is a Blunt Instrument by Lawson Akhigbe
In the fearful months and years following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, Western democracies faced an unenviable dilemma. Their citizens demanded protection from an enemy that recognised no borders, wore no uniforms and deliberately targeted civilians.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/12/the-law-is-a-blunt-instrument-by-lawson-akhigbe/
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The Law Is a Blunt Instrument by Lawson Akhigbe
In the fearful months and years following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, Western democracies faced an unenviable dilemma. Their citizens demanded protection from an enemy that recognised no borders, wore no uniforms and deliberately targeted civilians.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/12/the-law-is-a-blunt-instrument-by-lawson-akhigbe/
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I stopped at the Christian book store in the mall today and asked if they had any books about the Disciples of Christ (a mainstream denomination founded during the 2nd Great Awakening). They directed me to the books on cults.
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Rahu, an Indian demon, illicitly swallowed the nectar of immortality. The moon and sun saw him and told the gods so Vishnu decapitated Rahu with his discus. The severed head ascended to the heavens, where it chases these celestial orbs in anger, sometimes catching and eating them, thereby causing eclipses. However, as the head has no body attached to swallow the luminaries, the sun and moon soon reappear. Rahu is also sometimes considered an invisible planet. This planet has a maleficent influence, being associated with deceit, corruption, hedonism, swindlers, jokers and criminals. #wyrdwednesday #folklore #mythology #history #eclipse #religion
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Rahu, an Indian demon, illicitly swallowed the nectar of immortality. The moon and sun saw him and told the gods so Vishnu decapitated Rahu with his discus. The severed head ascended to the heavens, where it chases these celestial orbs in anger, sometimes catching and eating them, thereby causing eclipses. However, as the head has no body attached to swallow the luminaries, the sun and moon soon reappear. Rahu is also sometimes considered an invisible planet. This planet has a maleficent influence, being associated with deceit, corruption, hedonism, swindlers, jokers and criminals. #wyrdwednesday #folklore #mythology #history #eclipse #religion
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A l'approche de la fête de l'assomption, dogme de l'église catholique datant de moins d'un siècle, il me semblait opportun de rédiger un petit billet sur cette fête et sur ce principe de l'assomption qui voudrait que Marie, la mère de Jésus, ait été élevée corps et âme au ciel à la fin de sa vie terrestre :
#blog #spiritualité #religion #christianisme #protestantisme #ProtestantismeLiberal
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Anatomy of Kidnapping: The Law and Enforcement by Lawson Akhigbe
In Nigeria, the legal framework explicitly criminalizes the payment of ransoms to kidnappers or terrorists.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/12/anatomy-of-kidnapping-the-law-and-enforcement-by-lawson-akhigbe/
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En #France, hélas, la #religion #catholique, ses cadres et décideurs, continuent d'être sous la protection de l'#État.
Pour nous, c'est insupportable !
#athéesréformistes, qu'en pensez-vous ?
#GénérationAthée #Laïcité #Athéisme #Pape #LéonXIV
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Donald Trump repeatedly said: "The United States is the hottest country in the world."
Anthony Anderson replied: "Wait until he gets to Hell."
#religion #justice #environment #ClimateChange -
Donald Trump repeatedly said: "The United States is the hottest country in the world."
Anthony Anderson replied: "Wait until he gets to Hell."
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📜 Thomas Jefferson bought his copy of the Quran in 1765, 11 years before he drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Both Jefferson and Adams owned Qurans. Adams kept the first Quran printed in America, a 1806 Springfield, Massachusetts edition now in the Boston Public Library.
That era's diplomacy leaned on this knowledge too. Article 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, ratified under Adams, declares the US government "is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."
And the Quran itself names Jesus the Messiah (al-Masih) nine times, though it rejects his divinity.
Read more:
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/thomas-jeffersons-library/reason.html
https://archive.org/details/korancommonlycal00john
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796t.asp -
📜 Thomas Jefferson bought his copy of the Quran in 1765, 11 years before he drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Both Jefferson and Adams owned Qurans. Adams kept the first Quran printed in America, a 1806 Springfield, Massachusetts edition now in the Boston Public Library.
That era's diplomacy leaned on this knowledge too. Article 11 of the 1797 Treaty of Tripoli, ratified under Adams, declares the US government "is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion."
And the Quran itself names Jesus the Messiah (al-Masih) nine times, though it rejects his divinity.
Read more:
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/thomas-jeffersons-library/reason.html
https://archive.org/details/korancommonlycal00john
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/bar1796t.asp -
Ornamental Page and Glorification of Jesus Christ (9th century) (1868) by John O. Westwood, from Fac-similes of the Miniatures & Ornaments of Anglo-saxon & Irish Manuscripts.
Source: Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9ff40e33-1a30-4c1e-8786-8f94b472fac0
#manuscripts #books #religion #ireland #design #bookillustration #manuscript #art #publicdomain
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Ornamental Page and Glorification of Jesus Christ (9th century) (1868) by John O. Westwood, from Fac-similes of the Miniatures & Ornaments of Anglo-saxon & Irish Manuscripts.
Source: Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9ff40e33-1a30-4c1e-8786-8f94b472fac0
#manuscripts #books #religion #ireland #design #bookillustration #manuscript #art #publicdomain
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The Anatomy of Nigeria’s Kidnapping Industry by Lawson Akhigbe
Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed: "Last year, my nephew was kidnapped. That's my late sister's son, along with three other people. They went to a farm they had hired... and they were kidnapped just a few miles between Kaduna on the way to Kachia.https://lawakhigbe.com/2026/08/12/the-anatomy-of-nigerias-kidnapping-industry-by-lawson-akhigbe/
