Liquid water ‘lake’ revealed on Mars
Epigraph: Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We opened them out? And We made from water every living thing. Will […]
Pakistani Elections 2018 – First results …
Zahid Gishkori ✔ @ZahidGishkori Latest Official Results Updates: NA 20% Results Showed: 17201 Polling Stations PTI takes lead at 105 seats PMLN takes lead at 71 seats PPP takes […]
Pakistan’s 2018 election, explained
The election has been threatened by violence and the looming presence of the country’s military. By Madeleine Ngo@maddietngomaddie.ngo@vox.com Updated Jul 25, 2018, More than 105 million Pakistani voters will decide […]
Scientists May Have Discovered Water on Mars
Epigraph: Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a closed-up mass, then We opened them out? And We made from water every living thing. Will […]
Olympian: This is what it means to be an American
Source: CNN By Ibtihaj Muhammad Updated 1312 GMT (2112 HKT) July 23, 2018 I’ve lived the American Dream — a life as a citizen of these United States, nurtured by […]
A New Law Shifts Israel Away From Democracy
Source: Time By Ilene Prusher Prusher is a journalist, author and lecturer. She was a foreign correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor from 1996-2010, where she covered the wars in […]
Tape reveals Trump and lawyer discussing payoff over alleged affair
Source: BBC News A recording of a conversation in which President Donald Trump and his lawyer discuss a payoff over an alleged affair with a model has been broadcast by […]
Pakistan election: Dozens killed on voting day
Source: BBC News Pakistan has been hit by violence on the day of its general elections – with at least 31 dead in the worst attack. A suicide bomber blew […]
31 killed in suicide blast outside Quetta polling station
Source: Dawn News At least 31 people have been killed and more than 30 injured in a suicide blast outside a polling station in Quetta’s Eastern Bypass area on Wednesday, […]
Every Muslim in the West is an Ambassador for Islam, Willing or Not!
In Western Europe, familiarity with Muslims is linked to positive views of Muslims and Islam Pew Research Center By Scott Gardner and Jonathan Evans Across Western Europe, people who say […]
Brownback opens religious freedom summit with plea to fight persecution
July 24, 2018 Survivors of religious persecution, left, stood and were recognized by Sam Brownback, at podium on right, U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, during the start of the […]
Boulder falls from Jerusalem’s Western Wall, barely missing worshipper
Source: Reuters BY Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An elderly worshipper had a close call on Monday when a 100-kg (220 lb) stone suddenly fell from Jerusalem’s Western Wall and […]
Indonesia passes anti-terrorism law after suicide attacks on churches
Source: Religion News Service JAKARTA, Indonesia (RNS) — Weeks after a radicalized Muslim family committed suicide attacks on churches in the city of Surabaya, Indonesia, the country passed an anti-terror law […]
Indian police probed for ‘having tea break rather than taking lynching victim to hospital’ after attack by ‘cow vigilantes’
Source: South China Morning Post Officers are accused of catering to themselves first, then making sure a cow was safe before tending to the victim, who died from his injuries […]
Erdogan says new Israeli law fascist, Hitler’s spirit re-emerging
Source: Reuters ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday an Israeli law declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination legitimizes oppression and shows that Israel […]
I’m Jewish and Pakistani… let me go to Israel
The only things that can stand in the way of progress are the laws made by the majority to rule over the people in the minority. It is only by […]
Philippine rebel chief: 30,000 rebels to be disarmed in deal
Source: Associated Press By Jim Gomex MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The leader of the largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines said Tuesday that 30,000 to 40,000 armed fighters would […]
Emboldened Ortega vilifies Catholic Church in bid to derail talks in Nicaragua
Source: Miami Herald By Tim Johnson In a risky change of strategy, embattled President Daniel Ortega has backed off from a Catholic Church-mediated dialogue with his opposition and launched […]
Chilean prosecutors probing 36 claims of Catholic Church sex abuse
Source: Reuters BY Aislinn Laing, Cassandra Garrison (Reuters) – The Chilean civil authorities are investigating 36 accusations of sexual abuse against bishops, clerics and lay workers in the Roman Catholic […]
Stop the ‘weaponization’ of religion in Pakistani politics
July 24, 2018 Pakistani politician Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, addresses his supporters during an election campaign in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 23, 2018. Pakistan holds general elections […]