Promoted Post: Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God? Not if the Quran Already Predicted Them Suggested Reading by the Muslim Times: The very book that this article criticizes: The Bible, the Qu’ran […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY JOHN GRAMLICHLEAVE A COMMENT Even as the polling industry tries to recover from real and perceived misses in U.S. and European elections in recent years, new studies have provided reassuring news for survey practitioners about the health of polling methodology. In this Q&A, Michael Dimock, […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY JONATHAN EVANS The vast majority of adults in Central and Eastern Europe identify with a religious group and believe in God, according to a recent […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD Yesterday VATICAN CITY (AP) — Four conservative cardinals who publicly questioned Pope Francis’ opening to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics are pressing their case […]
Source: The Guardian Scheme launched by an Australian activist becomes city-wide phenomenon, with more than 170 fridges delivering ‘a small act of kindness’ during holy month Children in Dubai get […]
Source: Religion News Service By Josephine McKenna | June 20, 2017 VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Catholic Church remains opposed to abortion despite the controversial appointment of a British philosopher to […]
Source: The Washington Post By Justin Jouvenal A Virginia teen found dead after she was attacked as she walked to a mosque was being remembered at vigils set in the […]
Source: USA Today BY Sara M Moniuszko From pageants to print — hijab-wearing Halima Aden is breaking beauty boundaries. Aden, 19, is the cover star of Allure’sJuly issue, which celebrates American […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD Yesterday VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis threw his support behind proposed legislation aimed at better integrating migrants into Italian society and the workforce, […]
Turkey’s religious affairs agency has expressed distaste over a new mosque in Berlin where men and women mingle freely, saying it was incompatible with the principles of Islam. Read more…..https://www.thelocal.de/20170622/turkey-says-liberal-german-mosque-incompatible-with-islam
Mosul/Baghdad: “When I looked out of the window and saw the minaret was no longer there, I felt a part of me had died.” For Ahmad Saied, a 54-year-old Iraqi schoolteacher, and many others Mosul can never be the the leaning minaret that had graced his city for nearly 850 […]
Israel’s intelligence and transportation minister has called on Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Riyadh to establish full diplomatic relations. Speaking at a conference in Herzliya on Thursday, Yisrael Katz also asked King Salman to send newly appointed crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to Tel […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Does the Quran present a theocratic or a secular state? My short answer is ‘a secular state!’ […]
Source: RNS Farhad Ahmad, an imam at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Center near the attack site, said Muslims in the neighborhood are living with more apprehension than ever before.“The situation in the country, there is so much more division,” he said. “You see a change in the tide. The three […]
Source: RNS In the cover photo, the Muslim model wears a Nike hijab, and in her interview, she discusses her views on the garment. “It’s how I interpret my religion,” she said. “Society puts so much pressure on girls to look a certain way. I have much more to offer […]
Source: RNS BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Utah (Deseret News) The short, black cross is almost an afterthought, wheeled out of a supply closet moments before introductions begin. Its arrival wraps up 20 minutes of guitar practice and nervous chatter, all part of prepping for a weekly worship service. “You have […]
Source : RNS JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) Members of an Indonesian Islamic sect have issued a complaint that their human rights were breached by a local government refusing to issue them state ID cards unless they renounce their belief, a rights group said. The Ahmadiyah identify themselves as Muslims but believe another […]
Source: BBC Some 30 boys have worn skirts to school in protest at being told they were not allowed to wear shorts. The pupils from ISCA Academy in Exeter asked permission to modify their uniform because of the hot weather. One of the boys who took part in the protest […]
Source:CNN The United States and Iraq said ISIS blew up a historic mosque in Mosul that was the ideological heart of the terror group and the birthplace of its self-declared caliphate. ISIS, through its news agency, said US warplanes were responsible for the loss late Wednesday of the Great Mosque […]
Editorial of the Spring 2010 Volume of the Muslim Sunrise Islam has been attacked by many over the last few centuries. Several prejudiced, so called “scholars” have sarcastically and offensively […]