Ireland Stays Faithful to a Catholic Education
Source: Wall Street Journal By Paul Hannon DUBLIN—As Ireland prepares to welcome its first papal visit in four decades when Pope Francis arrives Saturday, it is a much changed and […]
Author Archives
Zia H Shah
He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
Priest urges Vatican family conference to welcome gays
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and LEO ENRIGHT DUBLIN (AP) — One of the Catholic Church’s leading advocates for gays told a Vatican-sponsored conference Thursday that LGBT Catholics deserve […]
Deciding to Leave: The Last Straw that Broke a Catholic’s Back!
I’m A Lifelong Catholic. Here’s Why I’ve Finally Decided To Leave The Church. Source: The Huffington Post By Amanda Auchter; who is the author of The Wishing Tomb, winner of […]
Australia’s next PM made his name on turning back refugees
Source: Associated Press By ROD McGuirk CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s next prime minister, Scott Morrison, is seen by some as an incongruous mix of a committed Christian who made […]
Rohingya Muslims seeking refuge in Bangladesh would rather die than go back
‘I Would Rather Die Than Go Back’: Rohingya Refugees Settle Into Life In Bangladesh Source: NPR By JASON BEAUBIEN The Myanmar soldiers arrived in the morning, Dildar Begum says. They surrounded […]
Angry Pakistanis torch minority Ahmadi’s place of worship
Source: Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A spokesman for Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi sect says a mob of Sunni Muslims have torched the group’s place of worship. Thursday’s assault in a village near the eastern city of Faisalabad in Punjab province is the latest sectarian attack on the Ahmadis in […]
Holocaust memorials atop mass graves in Estonia torched, vandalized with swastika
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) — Unidentified individuals scrawled anti-Semitic slogans and symbols on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia. The incident occurred sometime last week at the Kalevi-Liiva village […]
Nisreen’s Choice: Women Rescued From Islamic State Are Told to Leave Children Behind
Source: Wall Street Journal By Isabel Coles and Ali Nabhan DUHOK, Iraq—When Nisreen searches her baby’s budding features she can sometimes see traces of his father: the Islamic State militant who raped her, […]
Survivors of last major Islamic State battle in Iraq beg for food
Source: Reuters BY Maria Tsvetkova MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – On a scorching August afternoon, an angry crowd besieged a mini-truck loaded with meat of two slaughtered cows amidst the ruins of […]
Pakistani court orders list of people who left Islam
Source: Rabwah.Net BY Ehsun Rehan On Monday a Pakistani court ordered the country’s national citizen database to handover list of individuals who left Islam and requested a change of religion […]
A vision for Australia beyond its borders
Posted by Senator Mehreen Faruqi Dr Mehreen Faruqui, the newly elected Greens Senator in the Australian Federal Parliament reflects on her maiden speech given on Tuesday 21 August 2018 as […]
Why we should all love the vulture
Source: BBC News By Matilda Battersby Have a bone to pick with the scraggy vulture? Just remember they’re vital as nature’s waste disposers – which is why their decline is […]
Trump Is in Trouble. Here’s How Much Worse It Can Get
Source: Time By Brian Bennett Michael Cohen once believed he would lead Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. When that didn’t come to pass, he told friends he might be White House […]
Alcohol Causing 2.8 Million Deaths a Year
No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says Source: CNN By Sandee LaMotte (CNN) If you’re one of the third of all humankind who drinks […]
U.N. warns of ‘lost generation’ of Rohingya children
Source: Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations warned on Thursday of what it described as a lost generation of Muslim Rohingya children, with half a million in refugee camps […]
Indonesia:Earthquake survivors celebrate Eid in makeshift camps
Rattled quake survivors mark Muslim festival on Indonesian island Source: Reuters KEKAIT, Indonesia (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors on the Indonesian island of Lombok celebrated the Muslim […]
Police probe sexual misconduct claims against Chinese monk
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Chinese police have opened an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against one of the country’s best-known Buddhist monks whose case has highlighted the growth […]
Mass protest against Pope Francis; Say Nope to the Pope
Say Nope to the Pope: Irish snap up tickets to see pontiff – with no plan to go Source: The Guardian In mass protest, demonstrators against Catholic church apply for […]
Deal to sell non-stun-slaughtered lambs to Saudis condemned
Source: The Guardian Fears UK export deal signals it will become normal to lower standards to secure trade deals BY David Batty The deal is estimated by the government to […]
Ahmadi Muslims risk arrest to perform the Hajj pilgrimage
Source: BBC News The Hajj is a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, that all adult Muslims are expected to complete at least once in their lives. Ahmadi Muslims are not […]