Source: Washington Post By Carol Morello From the rectory where he lives in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, the Rev. Raul Zamora had been hearing gunfire from a distance for months. […]
Source: Associated Press SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A cardinal has been summoned to appear in a Chilean court as the scandal over sex abuse by priests and others tied to […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – Eritrean Christians and human rights advocates are cheering the release of 35 Christian prisoners as a new peace pact […]
Source: Associated Press By DAVID McFADDEN BALTIMORE (AP) — A Mennonite missionary from Virginia who lived in Haiti for more than a decade has been sentenced to 23 years in […]
Source: AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION Dot by dot the laser sears the ink from Ucup’s flesh, leaving it red and raised, but there’s a look of calm satisfaction on his face. With […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLA SHANNON TOKYO (AP) — A large white and blue truck pulls up outside a stadium in central Japan and slowly expands into a place of […]
Source: BBC News At least 215 people have died in a series of apparently co-ordinated attacks in south-western Syria, local officials and a monitoring group say. Several suicide bombings struck […]
Source: Washington Post By Barkha Dutt There is a repugnant euphemism that has entered the lexicon of Indian prime-time television lately. “Cow vigilantes” has become contemporary shorthand for murderous right-wing mobs […]
Posted: Jul 26, 2018 ISLAMABAD (AP) – The Latest on general elections held in Pakistan (all times local): 9:15 p.m. Moderate voices in Pakistan seem to have prevailed after none of the 265 candidates fielded in general elections by the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba won a seat in parliament. That includes the […]
Source: Foreign Policy BY NITHIN COCA A demonstrator wearing a mask painted with the colors of the flag of East Turkestan and a hand bearing the colors of the Chinese flag […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Johnnie Moore & Gayle Manchin (RNS) — This week, as hundreds of religious leaders, nonprofit heads and government officials gather in Washington for the State Department’s […]
Source: Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — A Missouri man who pleaded guilty to making threatening phone calls to a Georgia mosque has been sentenced to two years in prison. […]
Source: Boston Globe By Martin Finucane and Danny McDonald Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley said Tuesday he was “deeply troubled” by the allegations of sexual abuse by one of the […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY SCOTT GARDNER AND JONATHAN EVANS A woman outside the East London Mosque after the first Friday prayers of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. (Rob Stothard/Getty Images) Across […]
Jul 26, 2018 Pakistan’s likely new prime minister was known as cricket’s greatest playboy during the 1990s Johnny Eggitt/AFP/Getty Images Imran Khan and Jemima Goldsmith after their civil wedding ceremony […]
Source: CNN By George Takei (CNN)As a Japanese-American who grew up behind the barbed wire of US internment camps, I sensed the cold dread that Muslims must have felt when […]
Source: CNN News By Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN)A student used a Facebook Live Stream to prevent the deportation of an Afghan asylum seeker on board an Istanbul-bound plane at Gothenburg […]
Darul Qazas or Sharia Courts: Why both must be Opposed? By Arshad Alam, New Age Islam 13 July 2018 The recent ‘desire’ of AIMPLB to establish Darul-Qazas in every district has understandably met with resistance, not just from different political parties, but also from within the Muslim community. It must be underlined […]
Official count to follow with chance former cricketer’s party will have to form coalition Memphis Barker in Islamabad and agencies Thu 26 Jul 2018 Imran Khan declares victory for his […]
By Aron Lamm, Epoch Times July 25, 2018 12:42 pm Last Updated: July 25, 2018 8:17 pm A general view of the Copenhagen City Court in Denmark on March 21, 2018. (Martin Sylvest/AFP/Getty Images) STOCKHOLM—An imam in Denmark has been charged with “approbation” of the killing of Jews after quoting and commenting […]