Epigraph: And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. (1 Corinthians 15:14) Empty Tomb: Did Jesus rise in a physical or a spiritual body? […]
Suggested reading and viewing for proper understanding of universal brotherhood and anti-Semitism BBC Video: The Big Questions: Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitic As an Israeli American, I agree with Ilhan Omar much more […]
Converts say experience of war, onslaught of group claiming to fight for Islam pushed them toward new faith. Critics accuse them of seeking personal gain such as financial help […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I work in a Catholic hospital and every time I drive to my work, I have […]
The Day Christ Died — Was it on a Thursday or Friday? Source: Huffington Post By James D Tabor, Professor of Religious Studies at University of North Carolina at Charlotte […]
By Mir Sabbir; BBC Bengali, Dhaka Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused with kerosene and set on fire at her school in Bangladesh. Less than two weeks earlier, she had filed […]
Pioneers Sandra Oh Indya Moore Marlon James Chrissy Teigen Massimo Bottura Hasan Minhaj Samin Nosrat Ninja Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy Naomi Osaka Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin Fred Swaniker […]
Source: BBC April 2017 A quarter of people who describe themselves as Christians in Great Britain do not believe in the resurrection of Jesus, a survey commissioned by the BBC […]
Reporting by Subrat Patnaik and Suchitra Mohanty in New Delhi; additional reporting by Munsif Vengattil; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani, Robert Birsel NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court agreed on […]
Source: The Atlantic By Peter Beinart; Professor of journalism at the City University of New York The Minnesota lawmaker urged American Muslims to act like citizens, not guests. Other religious […]
“Of everything, We have created pairs that you may reflect.” (Al Quran 51:49/50) Suggested reading Allah the Creator, the Maker and the Fashioner: Carnivorous Plants Allah the Creator, the Maker and […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Palm Sunday was this weekend, April 14, marking the last Sunday before Easter. The sacred Christian holiday commemorates the entry of […]
Source: Daily Sabah By Sami A. Al-Arian; Professor of public affairs and director of the Center for Islam and Global Affairs (CIGA) at Istanbul Sabahittin Zaim University Over the […]
If you can figure out how to have the ‘Hindu Law’ in Inida, ‘Jewish Law ‘in Israel, ‘Christian Law’ in the West then you can have your Shariah Law in […]
Source: BBC Brunei’s foreign ministry has said implementing Sharia law is about prevention rather than punishment, after intense criticism of its decision to implement the strict Islamic code. Under the […]
Pope Francis says the Catholic Church should support women’s rights Source: Washington Post Pope Francis said it’s time for the Catholic Church to acknowledge its history of male authoritarianism and […]
Source: Time By Malcolm Ritter (NEW YORK) — Fossil bones and teeth found in the Philippines have revealed a long-lost cousin of modern people, which evidently lived around the time […]
NY lawmakers OK protections for workplace religious attire ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York lawmakers have approved legislation strengthening protections for religious attire in the workplace. The bill that passed […]
Catholic missionaries are evangelizing on college campuses and trying to bring back the ‘nones’ Source: The Conversation More than 20% of all adults and over a third of millennials in the […]
Source: BBC By George Wright Floating cities have long seemed like a utopian pipedream based on little more than fantasy. But this week the concept appeared to take a step […]
Source: Telegraph By Gabriella Swerling Increasing numbers of Muslims are joining a persecuted minority sect of Islam, its leader has revealed – among other disclosures – in an exclusive interview […]
Brunei’s Criminal Laws Now Include Stoning For Gay Sex And Amputation For Theft Source: Huffington Post Amnesty International condemned the penalties, which also apply to children, as “cruel and inhuman.” […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Our brain is made of neurons. It is no wonder that whatever we do or think has, […]
Suggested reading Zikr Illahi (remembrance of Allah) and the human mind Meditation is common across many religious groups in the U.S. Doctor’s Orders: 20 Minutes Of Meditation Twice a Day – How […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Joel Osteen has no less than a thousand, half hour wonderful presentations, about positive thinking, hope, optimism […]
Source: Huffington Post By Sarah Ruiz-Grossman “My sadness is the sadness of my sisters here in Congress. And their success is my success,” the congresswoman told Ava DuVernay for Interview […]
Source: Pew Research Center A recent report of Pew Research Center featured a list in the form of two tables. The tables feature the Christian and the Muslim populations from […]
Source: The Guardian From Christchurch to Pittsburgh, the two communities are under attack. It is time to stand united By Jonathan Freedland and Mehdi Hasan The two of us […]
Book Review: Muhammad: An anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment Source: Princeton University Printing Press and Aeon.co By John Tolan, who is a professor of history at the University of Nantes. […]
Source: Princeton University Printing Press and Aeon.co By John Tolan, who is a professor of history at the University of Nantes. His latest book is Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions […]
Source: The Guardian By Elif Shafak is a novelist and political scientist From Jordan Peterson to Thilo Sarrazin, rightwing writers are bringing once fringe ideas into the mainstream used to live […]
Additional Reading Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran A Message of Compassion and Love from the Holy Bible True Fasting: A Message of Compassion and Love from […]
Mar 31,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – BY ALI KASSAY One of the marvels of the Internet age is that rarely a week goes by without someone inviting you to sign […]
Source: Christian Today By Jerry Newcombe An award-winning scientist recently told the world that science and religion are not incompatible. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports (3/19/19), “The annual Templeton Prize, […]
Pope requires sex abuse claims be reported in Vatican City By Nicole Winfield VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has issued sweeping new sex abuse legislation for the Vatican City […]
ANARCHISTS IN SWITZERLAND: ‘Empress stabbed in the heart’ Source: Swiss Info By Regula Bochsler In 1898, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria was murdered in Geneva. The popular “Sisi” was stabbed […]
Source: Globe and Mail Courtesy: Hamid Rehman, Canada Waves of condemnation washed over Quebec’s move Thursday to ban some public-sector workers from wearing religiously symbolic articles, despite Premier François Legault’s […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ron Dicker Movita Johnson-Harrell, the first Muslim woman to serve in the Pennsylvania state House, accused Republican Stephanie Borowicz of Islamophobia. Movita Johnson-Harrell, the first Muslim […]
Additional reading and viewing Video and Book Review: The Leadership of Muhammad by Prof. John Adair
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla From personal conversations in coffee shops to mass vigils at universities, here are just some of the ways interfaith allies have been showing their […]
Source: Scientific American By Lee Billings, who is an associate editor for Scientific American. He covers space and physics. In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the […]
Source: Daily Sabah President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday voiced the possibility of reverting the Hagia Sophia, which has been used as a museum since 1935 and is considered one […]
Speaker: Dr. Lutf ur Rehman, Nashville, TN, USA Suggested reading Autophagy and Fasting: Its effect on disease and how fasting may help
Source: The Washington Post By Anna Fifield CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — It has been a week since a gunman spouting anti-immigrant hate stormed into two mosques in Christchurch, killing 50 people […]
Dignified. The #Christchurch paper with #peace in Arabic and the names of the victims on the front page. Very endearing ❤@newzealand Thank you for the love+solidarity! #WeAreOne #LoveForAllHatredForNone pic.twitter.com/GWKZoIO5zI — […]
(CNN) New Zealand came together in a national day of reflection Friday to mark a week since the mass shootings at two Christchurch mosques that killed 50 people. The Muslim […]
Source: Time By Charlie Campbell/Christchurch Updated: March 21, 2019 11:57 AM ET | Originally published: March 20, 2019 New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has garnered international praise for her […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Provincial lawmakers in northwestern Pakistan have assailed as anti-Islamic women’s marches held earlier this month across the country to mark the International Women’s Day. Lawmakers in […]
18th April 2019 With the historic shift to Islamabad of His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba), Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Fifth Successor to the Promised Messiah […]
19th April 2019 Hazrat Chaudhry Sahibra was a companion of the Promised Messiahas, member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council, judge of the Federal Court of India, president of the International […]
22nd April 2019 Another year of prosperity Atheism, as we know it today, finds its roots in the 15th century CE, but what marks its boom and zenith is unanimously […]
BY SANA AHMAD , (LAST UPDATED APRIL 3, 2019) The New Zealand massacre through the eyes of an Ahmedi abroad Ever since I moved abroad, I have felt it is […]
ALANNA SMITH & RYAN RUMBOLT, CALGARY HERALD Updated: April 21, 2019 Sri Lankan officials inspect St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, north of Colombo, after multiple explosions targeting churches and hotels […]
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By Maya Jasanoff April 29, 2016 The funeral of Martial Bourdin, as depicted in the French media.CreditAlamy ImageThe funeral of Martial Bourdin, as depicted in the French media.CreditCreditAlamy CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It was past dark on a February afternoon in 1894 when a keeper at Greenwich […]
Maundy Thursday mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in the predominantly Christian town of Hamdaniya. Photograph: Achilleas Zavallis/The Guardian Hamdaniya has been reclaimed from the extremists who made […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a briefing on Iran at the State Department in Washington on April 8. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) By Josh Rogin Columnist April 21 at 5:00 […]
Women working in aviation sector give insight on what it’s like to be flying all the time Published: April 19, 2019 13:38 Last updated: April 21, 2019 09:51Sami Zaatari, Staff Reporter Aisha Al Mansouri (UAE) Senior First Officer of Etihad airways.Image Credit: Ahmed Kutty/Gulf News Abu Dhabi: Regularly flying across the world, traversing […]
Malaysia probes talk on Muslim women giving up headscarves Agence France-Presse Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Wed, April 17, 2019 / 10:30 pm This picture taken on November 30, 2012 shows a Muslim women wearing a headscarf, or (AFP/Saeed Khan) Islamic officials in Malaysia have launched an investigation […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. Killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: CNN By Euan McKirdy, Sheena McKenzie and Harmeet Kaur, CNN The […]
Many more injured as explosions hit four hotels and three churches in and around Colombo as well as at Batticaloa in the east of the country LIVE Updated 1m ago Play Video 0:51 Devastating aftermath of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday church blasts – video Haroon Siddique (now) and Alison Rourke […]
Updated 10 sec ago SPA April 20, 2019 The organization’s operations focus on supporting scientific research in the field of Islamic studies, achieving convergence and integration among Islamic universities by […]
By AFP – Apr 20,2019 – JORDAN TIMES Members of a South Sudanese family are pictured in Kalma camp outside South Darfur state capital Nyala on Thursday (AFP photo) UDIER, South Sudan — By the time he was brought into the remote clinic in northeastern South Sudan, two-year-old Nyachoat was […]
Apr 20,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – WALID M. SADI Former Democratic candidate for the presidency of the US back in 2016, Hillary Clinton, said on Fareed Zakaria GPS that the […]
Baghdad hosts speakers of Jordan, S. Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Syria, Turkey By JT – Apr 20,2019 – JORDAN TIMES Lower House Speaker Atef Tarawneh meets with his Iraqi counterpart Mohammed […]
The papacy Peter Stanford Pope Francis the reformer is being challenged by his conservative predecessor – who now has a far-right backing including Steve Bannon Sat 20 Apr 2019 […]
Former PM claims that ‘failure’ of multiculturalism has led to rise in bigotry Michael Savage Policy Editor Sat 20 Apr 2019 Former prime minister Tony Blair. Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA […]
The success of popular action and civil disobedience in Sudan and Algeria has been treated sceptically by commentators. The pessimists might just be getting it wrong this time round, just […]
