Source:N Y Times: The sweeping reorganization of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, set to take effect next year, is likely to involve the merger or the closing of significantly more parishes than was originally announced last month, archdiocese documents show. Church officials said in November that 112 of the […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/12/15/bpr-coren-australia-hostage-situation-sydney.cnn 5 people have fled from Sydney cafe A hostage taker in a Sydney cafe has contacted three media outlets via the hostages. An unknown number of people remain captive. FULL […]
Source: The Daily Beast But Pope Paul VI did, decades ago. This internet rumor isn’t true, but the Catholic Church really has done hard thinking about animal souls. This week […]
Epigraph: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Source: The Guardian By Rowena Mason […]
Summary by David Ignatius, Daily Star, Lebanon Gen. John Allen must sometimes feel that he’s navigating a maze as he organizes the coalition to defeat ISIS: Iran is a silent partner in Iraq but a potential adversary in Syria and elsewhere; Turkey and Saudi Arabia are crucial allies, but skittish […]
The Daily Star BEIRUT: United Nations and Lebanese officials are meeting Monday to launch the 2015-16 Lebanon Crisis Response Plan to deal with the more than 1.2 million Syrian refugees the country is hosting. Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas and Ross Mountain, the U.N. resident coordinator in Lebanon, will discuss […]
Islam prescribes many forms of worship that have outward expressions, prayer being the most obvious of these. Yet, the greatest, most important facets of worship are the internal ones, the […]
JEDDAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED Published — Monday 15 December 2014 Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved a project to install about 300 sunshades in the courtyards of […]
Businessinsider.com; It’s a saying favored by boomers and grandparents, a comeback beloved enough to make an appearance in New Yorker cartoons and on countless T-shirts: “I’ve forgotten more than you know.” Now, a team of researchers at the University of Tübingen in Germany has offeredsome support for the idea that the slowed-down recall we […]
Daily Times: Speaking to the Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI’s) three-day convention in Lahore, the ameer (chief) of the party, Sirajul Haq, told his followers that UK agents in Pakistan were trying to spread the propaganda that Jinnah had envisaged Pakistan to be a secular state. He went on to claim Jinnah had […]
theguardian: Giles Fraser —- It’s depressing that a decade after I wrote about a Christian charity’s thinly disguised Islamophobia, they’re still at it Franklin Graham (second from right) leads his father Billy, flanked by former US presidents George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, on the campus of the […]
Source: BBC At least one gunman has taken several people hostage at a cafe in the Australian city of Sydney. Pictures on Australian television show at least three people with […]
Epigraph: We (Allah) prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in the land — […]
Washington (CNN) — A defiant former Vice President Dick Cheney doubled-down on his defense of the extreme interrogation techniques used by the CIA on detainees in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks […]
Source:pressahmadiyya.com 22 Graduates receive their degrees from Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 13 December 2014, the Third Convocation Ceremony of Jamia Ahmadiyya UK took place at the College premises in Haslemere in Surrey. The ceremony was presided over by […]
Epigraph: Say, ‘Bring forward your proof if you are truthful.’ (Al Quran 27:65) Veena Malik and the modern witch-hunt of Pakistani blasphemy laws Source: The Telegraph Pakistan’s blasphemy laws […]
PRESS RELEASE 14-12-2014 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community steps forward to assist the Swachh Bharat Mission announced by the Honorable PM of India. A report on initiatives taken by Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
NYTimes 2014/12/14 For Jihadists, Denmark Tries Rehabilitation By ANDREW HIGGINSDEC. 13, 2014 Photo Oussama el-Saadi, chairman of the Grimhojvej mosque, which critics say breeds radicalism. Credit Jan Grarup for The New York Times AARHUS, Denmark — In many parts of Europe, he would now be in jail. But here in […]
By Marc-André Miserez swissinfo.ch It is thought to be a one-of-a-kind: tucked away in a multicultural, working-class suburb of Bern stands a house with five sanctuaries, one per religion. The House of Religions is a place for coexistence and interaction. With the tip of his spatula, an artist perfects the […]