Source: Business insider, UK By Leanna Garfield The Saudi Arabian government says it will build a $500 billion mega-city, with the goal of diversifying its economy to focus less on […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Jerusalem’s mayor on Tuesday suspended a plan to impose taxes on properties owned by Christian churches, backing away from a move that had enraged religious leaders and led to the closure of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/newswires/news/world/israel-suspends-plan-tax-jerusalem-church-properties-article-1.3844225
Editor’s Note: This is an old article, but we give you the link as the discussion about this subject seems to be continuing. Arafat Mazhar Updated December 09, 2014 Facebook Count Note: This blog was first published on Dawn.com on January 15, 2015. A few […]
By Sibilla Bondolfi This content was published on February 21, 2018 This child was adopted – the photo comes from guardianship authority files from the City of Bern Archives (Peter Klaunzer/Keystone) The boom days of adopting children from abroad are over – nowadays hardly anyone is adopting in Switzerland. There […]
Reuters International This content was published on February 26, 2018 By Marcin Goclowski WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland could start educating children of refugees at the centres where they live rather than in public schools under a plan the government says will help all students but a newspaper said it […]
Reuters International This content was published on February 27, 2018 COLOMBO (Reuters) – At least five people were wounded and several shops and a mosque damaged in a clash […]
In 1919 a British general gave orders to fire into a huge crowd of peaceful demonstrators. This may seem like an anachronism, but beneath the surface not that much as really […]
Reuters International This content was published on February 27, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab Province and brother of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, gestures after appearing […]
Feb 26,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby Fifteen years ago this week, while the Bush administration was busy beating the drums for an invasion of Iraq, I submitted a resolution calling on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to oppose this rush to war. The resolution, which was also […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says Waqf-e-Nau should become the “shining stars of Ahmadiyyat” On 25 February 2018, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addressed the concluding session of the UK National Waqf-e-Nau Ijtema (gathering), an event held for male members of […]
Source: The Washington Post By Ruth Eglash February 25 Email the author JERUSALEM — The doors of Jerusalem’s sacred Church of the Holy Sepulchre were shuttered Sunday by Christian leaders in the Holy Land amid a […]
Source: The New York Times By ANDREW E. KRAMER Belant Zulgayeva walking with her grandsons in the village of Dachu-Borzoi, outside Grozny, Russia. CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times GROZNY, Russia […]
Source: The Telegraph Churches must switch off CCTV cameras during services because prayer is private, a Church of England court has ruled. The consistory court ruling is believed to be […]
Source: The Times By Marc Horne The Catholic church has stirred up controversy by indicating that it will oppose a Scottish law banning parents from smacking their children. The country is […]
Source: Reuters By Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) – Jakarta’s former governor, a Christian convicted of insulting Islam, sought a judicial review of his case on Monday, as several […]
Source: Associated Press By TOFAYEL AHMAD and JULHAS ALAM COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Their houses are often made of plastic sheets. Much of their food comes from aid agencies. […]
Source: Associated Press By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SINAN SALAHEDDIN BAGHDAD (AP) — Long beset by toxic divisions, Iraq seems to be growing even more fragmented ahead of national elections scheduled […]
Source: BBC News An Iraqi court has sentenced at least 15 Turkish women to death by hanging, after they were found guilty of joining the Islamic State group (IS). Some […]
Source: Haaretz By Aaron Rabinowitz The question of a successor to Auerbach, who died in Jerusalem at the age of 86 on Saturday, may be answered with the convening of a […]
Source: The New York Times By GARDINER HARRIS and ISABEL KERSHNER WASHINGTON — Sheldon G. Adelson, one of the most hawkish supporters of Israel among American Jews, has offered to help fund the construction […]