Imran Khan’s Journey into Religion
This article was originally published in Arabnews By Imran Khan My generation grew up at a time when colonial hang up was at its peak. Our older generation had been […]
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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
I Thought I Was Possessed By The Devil. The Truth Shook My Deepest Beliefs.
Source: Huffington Post By Steve Kissing, Guest Writer In 1975, when I was a fifth-grader at St. William Elementary, a Catholic school in Cincinnati, Ohio, the devil began visiting me […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
China: Tibetan students banned from religious activities
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Children in traditionally Buddhist Tibet have been banned from taking part in religious activities over the summer holidays, an official Chinese Communist Party newspaper […]
Fifty years on, and Catholics are still in turmoil over contraception
Source: The Guardian Papal declaration that artificial birth control is inherently wrong continues to affect lives of the most vulnerable BY Harriet Sherwood Religion Correspondent Pope Francis dismayed health educators on […]
Ibtihaj Muhammad: I felt like a social ‘pariah’ after making Team USA
Source: The Lily Ibtihaj Muhammad The following is an excerpt from “Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream,” by United States Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad. Muhammad is an American fencer who rose […]