Religion News Service | By Lauren Markoe HUFFPOST RELIGION (RNS) Ongoing violence in Nigeria has exacerbated tensions between the country’s Muslims and Christians. Nigeria has equal numbers of Christians and Muslims, and 92 percent of the country’s population says they pray every day, according to a 2010 poll by the […]
By Mohammed Masbah The Daily Star Morocco’s Justice and Development Party (PJD) will hold its seventh congress this weekend under extraordinary circumstances; for the first time, the PJD will be holding this conference as the ruling party – a new reality that raises many questions about its internal governance. Abdelilah […]
The Swiss Federal Railways must allow a placard criticising Israel to be hung in the Zurich main railway station, according to a decision by the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne. […]
BY ROB CRILLY, DAILY TELEGRAPH JULY 14, 2012 4:01 AM It is hardly the sort of endorsement that Britain’s Conservative elite would want or expect. But one of the world’s […]
Rugby: Fijian star Matawalu joins Glasgow Scotsman NEW Glasgow coach Gregor Townsend has added to his squad by signing the Fijianscrum-half hailed by Scotland as the star of their South Seas Test encounter last month. See all stories on this topic » Scotsman How to buy a tiny slice of Fiji The Australian LAST […]
KRAUTHAMMER: Islamic uprising, not Facebook revolution Santa Rosa Press Democrat Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well with a long beach and myriad tribes. Popular allegiance to a central national … See all stories on […]
Express Tribune: by Amna Agha: The persecution of the Ahmadiyya community has reached new heights following the destruction of six minarets at an Ahmadi place of worship in Kharian on July […]
By VANESSA FUHRMANS WALL STREET JOURNAL BERLIN—Germany’s government pledged Friday to pass a law to protect the ritual circumcision of young boys, seeking to calm a fractious debate over the religious rights of the country’s Jews and Muslims that has erupted since a German court ruled the practice amounted to […]
TRIPOLI — Mahmoud Jibril, the US-trained consultant who abandoned the Muammar Qadhafi administration to become the face of the Libyan revolution, is positioning himself as a potentially unifying force as the country emerges from four decades of dictatorship. The wartime rebel prime minister’s National Forces Alliance (NFA) is headed for […]
PNN: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas used the platform of the First International Conference for the Defense of Jerusalem, held in Doha in February of this year, to appeal to both Christians and Muslims of the Arab world, inviting them to visit and pray in the Israeli-occupied city. Abbas argued that […]
An angry mob attacked members of Bogor’s Ahmadiyah community on Friday as a team of Dutch journalists tried to shoot a documentary on the beleaguered community. Four journalists from the Dutch daily newspaper de Volkskrant arrived in Bogor’s Cisalada village late Friday morning to interview members of the local Ahmadiyah […]
NY Times: Your dad was manlier than you. His dad was manlier than him. And so on, for all of history back to the Stone Age. I’m thrilled with technology, […]
Dawn: Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim was formally appointed the Chief Election Commissioner on Friday, DawnNews reported. Ebrahim was appointed the CEC after President Asif Ali Zardari, on the advice […]
Source: Indian Express Fourteen-year-old Akbar’s appeal to the judge to let him remain with his Hindu guardian instead of transferring him to his Muslim mother has shot Aiku Lal Sandil […]
Source: Tehelka Ram Puniyani on how syncretism can lead to peace and progress like in pre-British days IT WAS heartening to note the observance of ‘Peace and Harmony Day on the anniversary of Vasant-Rajab on 1 July in Ahmedabad. Vasant Rao Hegiste and Rajab Ali Lakhani were two friends who […]
Source: Islamic Human Rights Commision The ASEAN NGO Coalition will organize a Freedom Flotilla mission to the Arakan/Rakhine state of Myanmar with the object of liberating the Rohingya from the continued persecution by the Myanmar securities. The situation in Myanmar is distortedly portrayed as a sectarian clash between Rakhine Buddhist […]
Source: Democratic Voice of Burma Burma’s President Thein Sein told a visiting delegation from the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Refugees that the government will not recognize the Rohingya and are considering handing over the ethnic group to the UNHCR, reported a government website today. The delegation led by Antonio […]
Source: NY Times Bits. SAN FRANCISCO — Another month, another major security breach. Yahoo confirmed Thursday that about 400,000 user names and passwords to Yahoo and other companies were stolen on Wednesday. A group of hackers, known as the D33D Company, posted online the user names and passwords for what […]
Source : NY Times. By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD Published: July 12, 2012 Stone spearheads and human DNA found in Oregon caves, anthropologists say, have produced firmer evidence that these are the oldest directly dated remains of people in North America. They also show that at least two cultures with distinct […]
The British Foreign Secretary said the killing of an estimated 200 people in Treimsa would ‘redouble’ British efforts for tough sanctions against Syria at the United Nations. He said the […]