The Malaysian Reserve | November 28, 2013 A fatwa issued in April has allowed the creation of trusts that will allow the family business to be preserved and passed down to ensuing generations in a non-disruptive way. by Sathish Govind & Kazi Mahmood PETALING JAYA: The Labuan International Business and […]
Reports of mosque closures and restrictions on wearing veils in public have surfaced despite Angola’s president denying the country’s ban on Islam. All of Angola’s 60 mosques are closed at present, eight mosques have been been dismantled in the past two years and Muslim women are not allowed to wear […]
Representatives of German Turks said on Wednesday they were disappointed by an accord clinched by top political parties to partially lift a ban on dual nationality under the “grand coalition” […]
Story Summary The Syrian government said Wednesday it would participate in U.N.-sponsored peace talks aimed at ending the country’s civil war but insisted that it was not going to the conference to hand over power. The meeting, which would be the first face-to-face talks between President Bashar Assad’s government and […]
JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Most Palestinians believe the renewal of peace talks with Israel was a mistake and over two-thirds think the negotiations will fail, according to a poll released Wednesday. Just over half the respondents — 50.5 per cent — said the decision by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas […]
A member of the Syrian opposition coalition has warned the Syrian community in the Gulf countries against sending money to armed fighters in Syria. He also appealed to Syrians living […]
Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh has warned against attempts to spread propaganda through social media platforms and attacking and faulting the state for what it does in the service […]
Source: BBC A young Muslim woman is challenging France’s full-face veil ban at the European Court of Human Rights, based in the French city of Strasbourg. The woman argues that the niqab, and the burka body covering, accord with her “religious faith, culture and personal convictions”. She denies being under […]
“Phony pretexts repeated often enough become real reasons. Things that…are not true become true in the public mind simply through endless repetition.” – Lenny Bloom
Source: CNN “I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a Church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security,” the Pope said Tuesday in a major new address. “I do not want […]
Source: Morocco World News: HAGUE – The Dutch opposition suggests an amendment to a law that bans offensive speaking against religion. Dutch legislators are discussing whether or not to change a law that bans offensive speaking against religion as senators in the upper house of the Dutch parliament opposed the plan to amend […]
Source: news.charismanews.com Matthew 24:14: “And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come” . Chances […]
Source: mcclatchydc.com WASHINGTON — The Freer Gallery of Art is showing off two rare Bibles from its archives through Feb. 16, 2014. The Bibles, written in Greek and bought by art collector […]
Source: tribune.com.pk The writer is a lawyer and partner at Ijaz and Ijaz Co in Lahore saroop.ijaz@ tribune.com.pk It has now become a routine, every year we express shock and horror at the ‘intolerance’ and ‘sectarian strife’, and with longing and nostalgia remember the peaceful times of the past. The common […]
By the grace of Almighty Allah, We the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Mangalore unit had put up a very successful 58 days stall at National Consumer Fair Exhibition at Karavali Utsav […]
Source: ndtv.com In traditional narratives, Queen Maya Devi, the mother of Buddha, gave birth to him while holding on to a branch of a tree in a garden at Lumbini, in […]
Source: rawstory.com Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt recently warned unarmed Americans that he had found firearms in the Bible, and that was proof that God was “judging” unarmed […]
Source: arabnews.com Crown Prince Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, will inaugurate a world conference on Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) at the Islamic University of Madinah on Tuesday. […]
World Bulletin / News Desk The Israeli authorities have opened a new museum beneath the third holiest site in Islam, the Al-Aqsa Mosque in eastern Jerusalem. The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound […]
