In modern society, an individual is almost forced to side between science and religion. However, some people, including the Vatican Astronomer, feel that religion and science are not only capable of coexistence, but they also are mutually supportive. They believe that fundamentalism on both sides of the debate is perpetuating […]
The mother of a US hostage has appealed to the leader of the Islamic State (IS) militants to get in touch with her. Paula Kassig posted a letter on Twitter, for Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, asking how he can be reached. “I am an old woman and Abdul Rahman is […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Ebola is now entrenched in the capital cities of all three worst-affected countries and is accelerating in almost all settings. WHO deputy head Bruce Aylward warned that the world’s response was not keeping up with the disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra […]
SYDNEY — What started as a courteous interview on ABC’s Lateline last night, quickly unravelled into chaos. Australian spokesperson for controversial Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir, Wassim Doureihi, was interviewed by Emma Alberici on the news program, which turned into a bickering match. READ MORE…
Dozens were injured in Germany after clashes erupted between Kurdish protesters and hard-line Islamists overnight. Police say 14 were injured and 22 arrested in violent scuffles in the northern city of Hamburg after hundreds of Kurds staged a demonstration against Isis, also known as the Islamic State. READ MORE…
Investigations are under way at a hospital in Madrid after a Spanish nurse became the first person known to have contracted the deadly Ebola virus outside West Africa. The nurse had treated two Spanish missionaries who died of the disease after being flown home from the region. Three other people, […]
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Isamu Akasaki, of Meijo University in Nagoya and Nagoya University, Japan; Hiroshi Amano, of Nagoya University, Japan; and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA “for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled […]
Somali government and African Union (AU) forces have taken full control of the last port city held by militant Islamists, officials say. Heavy gunfire could be heard as the AU and Somali forces entered Barawe, 220km (135 miles) south-west of the capital Mogadishu, on Monday, residents said. READ MORE…
British teacher David Bolam has been released after being held hostage by militants in Libya since May. The Foreign Office said Mr Bolam, who taught at the now-closed International School […]
Celebrations in West Africa for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha have been badly affected by the Ebola outbreak. Reports from Guinea say public places used for prayers are deserted while religious leaders in Sierra Leone told Muslims not to shake hands or embrace. Meanwhile, a French nurse who got […]
Islamic State (IS) militants are reported to have entered the key Syria-Turkey border town of Kobane and are engaged in street-to-street fighting with Syrian Kurd defenders. IS fighters entered eastern districts, raising their black flag on buildings and high ground. Hundreds of civilians are reported to be fleeing to the […]
Murdered aid worker Alan Henning’s brother has called on David Cameron to put British troops on the ground in Syria and Iraq to catch the Islamic State “monsters” who killed him. Reg Henning said those responsible for killing the taxi driver, from Eccles in Greater Manchester, were “barbarians”. He also […]
Dozens of Ahmadiyya Muslim women adorned in bright overcoats called jilbabs and wearing myriad colorful hijabs kneeled and collectively worshipped their God, Allah, in a harmonized Eid prayer in north […]
Mail Online: Tears flowed and prayers filled the air as some 2 million Muslims completed the annual pilgrimage to Arafat Elderly pilgrims sat in wheelchairs, babies in prams, and others […]
For one week, Kate Leaney – a Christian woman – has donned a scarf on her head in the Islamic tradition. It’s not because she’s trying stay warm – rather, […]
Canberra Muslim woman Nurcan Baran says she has stopped wearing her hijab for fear of being attacked. On Thursday Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate President Stephen Parry approved new interim rules to force Muslim women who cover their faces to sit in a separate glass-enclosed public gallery in Federal Parliament. […]
BBC News: UK Prime Minister David Cameron has promised new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani that Britain will always be a “strong partner and good friend”. Mr Cameron, on an unannounced visit to Kabul, said British armed forces had paid a “very high price” for their involvement in Afghanistan. Mr Ghani […]
The 500-year-old mines of Bolivia’s Cerro Rico mountain produced the silver that once made the Spanish empire rich. Now riddled with tunnels, the mountain is a death trap for the men and boys who work there – and who pray to the devil to keep them safe. In a dingy […]
Let’s bomb the Muslim world – all of it – to save the lives of its people. Surely this is the only consistent moral course? Why stop at Islamic State (Isis), when the Syrian government has murdered and tortured so many? This, after all, was last year’s moral imperative. What’s […]
USA Today: The protests in Hong Kong are not yet sparking fears that the region will become the next trouble spot for the global economy, but such concerns will grow if the conflict intensifies and ensnares China, economists say. READ MORE…