Source: Amazon By Sharon Salzberg Thousands of years prove it, and Western science backs it: Meditation sharpens focus. Meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves chronic pain, reduces stress. Meditation helps us experience […]
Source: The Guardian British Social Attitudes survey shows generation gap on religious affiliation is widening with only 3% of adults under 24 describing themselves as Anglican The survey found that […]
Source: Time BY Alana Abramson Sep 03, 2017 Barack Obama left Donald Trump four pieces of advice in a letter he put in the Oval Office as he was exiting […]
Source: BBC News By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent One of the most powerful X-ray machines ever built has officially opened in the German city of Hamburg. The facility, which […]
Source: BBC Food By Nicola Shubrook What is asparagus and when is it in season? Asparagus is a spear-like vegetable that is a member of the lily family. It’s typically in season […]
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has decided to scrap a programme that protects young undocumented immigrants, according to reports. He will give Congress six months to draw up […]
Source: Time By Christopher Weber and Ellen Knickmeyer / AP 4:59 AM ET (LOS ANGELES) — Wildfires forced thousands to flee their homes across the U.S. West during a sweltering, […]
Dr Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy INDIA and Pakistan have more influential holy men per square mile than anyone has ever counted. Some are just rich, others both powerful and rich. Once upon a time their followers were only the poor, superstitious and illiterate. But after the massive resurgence of religion in […]
Source: Time Pakistani education advocate Malala Yousafzai has called on fellow Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the “tragic and shameful” treatment of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. In […]
Source: Time BY Olivia B. Waxman Sep 01, 2017 Nowadays, many think of the Labor Day holiday in the U.S., which falls on the first Monday in September, as a day for […]
Source: BBC News By Giulia Pines 4 September 2017 In summer 2011, I was working at a small Berlin travel agency and facing a conundrum: my clients literally held tickets […]
Do Facebook prayers count? Texas Secretary of State rejects aid from Canada, asks for prayers instead. When the good people of Quebec offered blankets, beds, water, and other much needed relief effort to those devastated by Hurricane Harvey, Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos rejected the generous offer, and asked […]
thestar.com 2017/09/03 A photo of Ibrahim Hindy of the Dar Al-Tawheed Islamic Centre was the main image of multiple hoax articles about an imam who refused to shelter non-Muslims displaced by Hurricane Harvey. A Mississauga imam who had his image used in a fake news article about mosques refusing to […]
Source: Premier for the post and Dawn and Hindustan Times in the comment section below By Tola Mbakwe Pakistan’s senate has passed a bill that enforces the compulsory teaching of […]
DAILY SABAH WITH AFP BERLIN RTL Handout Photo via AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that she would ask the European Union to call off membership talks with […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Historical Ottoman Taşköprü Mosque built in 16th century in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. (AA Photo) The garden of a 500-year-old former Ottoman mosque in the Bulgarian capital of […]
By Anand Chandrasekhar in Thun August 30, 2017 The number of reported crimes against Indian women has more than doubled between 2005 and 2015 (Keystone) Indian artist and activist Sheba Chhachhi believes that Indian women who deviate from conservative cultural norms are facing an unprecedented level of violence against […]
Reuters LONDON: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, called on her fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to condemn the “shameful” treatment of the Rohingya Muslims […]
AISHA FARID & NADA HAMEED | Arab News Staff | Published — Monday 4 September 2017 JEDDAH: As Hajj winds down, congratulations poured in regarding the Saudi Arabian […]
Aug 31,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab Telling partial truth or untruths is prevalent with politicians. Although it should not be so, political leaders have a tendency to exaggerate, minimise and at times tell total lies in order to support a political point of view. But even lying politicians […]