Source: The Washington Post Donald Trump won the white evangelical Christian vote in the South Carolina primary and the Nevada caucuses. This support has been evident for months, causing evangelical leaders to wring their hands. Last year, Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s influential Washington organization, the Ethics […]
Source: CNN Memphis (CNN) Hillary Clinton took to two pulpits in Memphis on Sunday to preach a message of inclusion and a rejection of divisiveness, in the wake of her […]
Source: Boston Globe For decades, clergy sex abuse survivors were alone, silenced by shame and by a sweeping conspiracy in the Catholic Church hierarchy. On Sunday night, the movie that […]
Former Beauty Queen of Democratic Republic of Czechoslovakia, Marketa Korinkova embraced Islam after repenting to lead the life of Christianity. She said that she has decided to embrace Islam and […]
Source: RT By Sam Gerrans For a Christian in the West, his religion is a matter of personal choice; it is a bolt-on to whatever he wishes to do the […]
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy delivered one of the most powerful speeches as she won another Oscar for Pakistan at the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy poses with her Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject, “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness,” in the press room during the 88th […]
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Source: The Guardian Up to 70,000 migrants and refugees could soon be stranded in Greece, the government has said, as it considers enlisting the help of the army to deal […]
Source: India Today Donald Trump, the controversial Republican presidential frontrunner, today again blamed India for taking away jobs from Americans, pledging to bring them back if elected president even as […]
Source: BBC Imagine a world without toothbrushes, mouthwash and dental floss. That’s an easy one, right? There would be rotten teeth in every mouth, and rich dentists in every town. […]
Source: BBC Moderates and reformists have dealt another blow to Iran’s hardliners, winning all but one of the seats for Tehran in the Assembly of Experts. President Hassan Rouhani and […]
Source: BBC Europe cannot allow Greece to fall into “chaos”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says, amid sharp divisions among members over the migrant crisis. Austria and several Balkan countries have […]
Source: The Guardian A coalition of more than 400 companies is openly opposing a Georgia “religious liberty” bill that is rapidly heading toward passage, with at least one major company […]
On 27 February 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addressed the concluding session of the Annual Ijtema (gathering) of the National Waqf-e-Nau Girls Department of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the UK. The event took place at the […]
In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama ‘Spotlight’ took best picture at an Academy Awards driven by protest and outrage, and electrified by an unflinching Chris Rock. Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests […]
Epigraph: And there is life for you in the law of retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may enjoy security. (Al Quran 2:179/180) Source: BBC Pakistan has hanged the […]
The biggest award of Oscars evening 2016 went to “Spotlight,” which pulled out a win for best picture in a very split year. The Tom McCarthy-directed film won one trophy […]
Huff Post: by Sana Tayyen — Befriending Muslims while attacking Islam is no way to make friends with Muslims. The attitude that “Muslims are good people, but that which makes them Muslim is evil” is averse to creating bonds of community between Muslims and non-Muslims in a multi-religious America. The […]
Haaretz: The chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, Habayit Hayehudi’s Nissan Slomiansky, is promoting a bill to increase the influence of Jewish law, halakha, in court decisions. The bill would set up an institute to advise judges and call on them to be assisted by the principles […]
personalmusingsblog.wordpress.com: In recent days there has been a lot of talk about a suggestion published in a document about counter terrorism that the hijab contributes to passive terrorism. The document is a US Air Force White Paper entitled “Countering Violent Extremism, Scientific Methods and Strategies” with contributions by several academics; it was originally […]