Pope sues German magazine over Vatileaks cover
Source: The Telegraph The Pope has taken a German satirical magazine to court over a front cover that pictured the pontiff with a yellow stain down the front of his […]
Russia to honour arms sales contracts to Syria
Russia said on Wednesday it would fulfil a contract to deliver air defence systems to Syria and had no plans to impose an arms embargo on its Soviet-era ally despite […]
Libya’s liberals call for civil state, reject political Islam
A top member of Libya’s liberal coalition, which claims to have swept 70 percent of seats reserved for parties in the next congress, on Wednesday rejected political Islam and called for a civil state. “The National Forces Alliance is against the injection of religion into political battles,” Faisal Krekshi, secretary […]
Why Mali’s Islamists are destroying Timbuktu Muslim shrines AND what does the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at teach about praying at shrines?
PARIS (AFP) ― The mausolea of Timbuktu, known as the “city of 333 saints,” are shrines in the Sufi brand of Islam dominant in Mali but a heresy to the […]
Outrage after UPS supervisor called Muslim employee, 35, a MONKEY
By EMILY ANNE EPSTEIN Source: MailOnline A Muslim employee of UPS in Orlando, Florida, says that his coworkers and managers routinely humiliated and harassed him while the company did little […]
Bosnia buries hundreds at Srebrenica massacre site
Bosnians on Wednesday buried 520 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, with the two alleged masterminds of the slaughter finally on trial for genocide. About 30,000 people were gathered at […]
Saudi Shi’ites throng funeral of slain protester
DUBAI (Reuters) – Thousands of Shi’ite Muslims turned out for the funeral of a man killed during protests triggered by the arrest of a prominent Shi’ite Muslim cleric in Saudi […]
Europe’s Muslims edge towards synchronising Ramadan
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS | Wed Jul 11, 2012 REUTERS (Reuters) – When the Muslim holy month of Ramadan arrives next week, fasting will definitely begin on Friday […]
Syria’s Ambassador to Iraq Reported to Defect
Source: NY Times. Syria‘s ambassador to Iraq was reported to have defected on Wednesday, which if confirmed would be the second prominent defection from President Bashar al-Assad‘s government in less than a week. More:
Fury grows at Islamabad’s NATO u-turn
Source: Asiatimes: A coalition of prominent jihadi organizations has descended on Islamabad to protest the reopening of NATO supply lines to Afghanistan, with 50,000 supporters refusing to leave a sit-in at Parliament House unless last week’s decision is revoked. Enjoying the full backing of intelligence agencies, the Defense of Pakistan […]
Euro Crises: German Constitutional Court Wants to Help Berlin
Credit:Spiegel-Germany An Analysis by Thomas Darnstädt and Dietmar Hipp DPA The judges of the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court gave an important signal at Tuesday’s marathon hearing on the ESM bailout fund and fiscal pact. The judges want to help the government get the controversial EU projects […]
The Catholic Church’s Fading Influence in Poland
Credit: Spiegel-Germany By Jan Puhl DPA Twenty years ago, the Catholic Church played a major role in the fall of communism in Poland. Today, with the country changing rapidly, the church’s influence is quickly waning. Once considered the most Catholic country in Europe, the faithful are vanishing. More:
Police demolish Ahmadi worship place minarets in Kharian,Lahore in Pakistan.
LAHORE: Six minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship, Baitul Hamd, were demolished by the Kharian city police Tuesday night. The demolition took place on the application of Saqib Shakeel Ghazi, Syed Iftikhar Kazmi and others from the Barelvi religious organisation called Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Islam. It had been filed to the Kharian police […]
Information Technology Spending to Hit $3.6 Trillion in 2012, Report Says
Source: NY Times. Fueled by an accelerating move to cloud computing, and by a boom in associated telecommunications services, worldwide information technology spending is increasing somewhat faster than expected, according to industry analysts at Gartner. Over all, people will spend $3.6 trillion on information technology in 2012, the research firm […]
Global Warming Makes Heat Waves More Likely, Study Finds
Source : NY Times. Some of the weather extremes bedeviling people around the world have become far more likely because of human-induced global warming, researchers reported on Tuesday. Yet they ruled it out as a cause of last year’s devastating floods in Thailand, one of the most striking weather events […]
Pakistan may increase non-Muslims seats in legislature
Source: Zeenews India Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Wednesday gave in-principle approval to a move to increase seats for non-Muslims in the national and provincial assemblies in proportion to their population. The decision was made by the federal cabinet during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, an […]
Leader says get over fear of Muslims
Source: Abpnews.com Interfaith Alliance head Welton Gaddy separates reason from rhetoric in radio show. By Bob Allen A Baptist minister and interfaith leader says it is time for Americans to get over their fear of Islam and get on with the assimilation of Muslims into their neighborhoods. “As a society […]
‘Let the college and Gurdwara co-exist’ in Karachi
Source: thenews.com Heera Lal, 55, lives in the courtyard of the oldest Sikh temple of Karachi. Yet he prays to a lone effigy of Sain Baba that he has at his house. So do the three generations of his family that live with him. Opposite the Preedy police station […]
Interfaith Prayers organized in Myanmar for Rakhine & Kachin States Held at YangonYMCA
Source: Groundreport.com Interfaith Diaglogue of Myanmar held praying ceremony for The Rakhine and The Kachin to gain peace n tranquility on July 7,2012 at Y.M.C.A Yangon, Myanmar. General Secratary, Dr.Tha Nyan shared talks about it. Prayers are Father Joseph Maung Win of St.Anthony Church,Yangon, Dr.Mi Mi Khin of Islamic Association,Yangon,U […]
Great scientist looses out to Religious forces
Source: Deutsche Welle Hindi Pakistan has forgotten its only nobel laureate on religious grounds. Abdus Salam contributed towards providing framework for Higgs Bones ‘God particle’. Abdus Salam is an evidence of three decades of increasing religious fundamentalism in Pakistan. He died in 1996. For his advanced work on physics and […]