By Craig Consindine, Lecturer, Rice University, Department of Sociology As an advocate of interfaith dialogue, particularly between Christians and Muslims, I’m often faced with the issue of conversion. People ask […]
Published 6 June 16, 2018 By ADEBAYO WAHEED, Ibadan The Amir (president) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Nigeria, Dr Mashu’ud Aderenle Fashola, has warned that without the pursuit of justice, […]
Eid Mubarak to all our readers from our Editorial team. The Muslims celebrate Eid twice a year, Eid-ul-Fitr and the other, which comes about 10 weeks later, is called Eid-ul-Adha. […]
Source: The New York Times By Lilia Blaise TUNIS — Ramadan ends this week, and that comes none too soon for some in Tunisia — not least the hundred or so […]
Source: Time By Aryn Baker A 253-feet long, 2,000-ton boat makes for an ungainly political football, especially when it is carrying some 629 desperate migrants and is staffed by a […]
New today: Education of Muslim women is limited by economic conditions, not religionhttps://t.co/x05GFpHgXl pic.twitter.com/sTvq5uzo1W — Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) June 12, 2018
AFP news@thelocal.it @thelocalitaly 21 May 2018 A woman aboard a rescue boat arrives in Messina, Sicily. Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP An anti-establishment, far-right government in Italy heralds even more controversy over […]
Source: Reuters By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – Christian convert Loubna and her husband Kamal marry in a small ceremony in a meeting room of a human rights group in […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – As violence-torn Africa grows weary of solutions that haven’t worked, Nigerian Cardinal John Onaiyekan is proposing a controversial alternative: Negotiate with […]
As required by the U.S. Congress, the United States Department of State released the 2017 International Religious Freedom Report on May 29, acknowledging the commitment of the government of The […]
President Julius Maada Bio on Thursday met with Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission where he said that Sierra Leoneans should be proud of religious tolerance in the country. He said religion is […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times It was 8th of June, 632 CE, Muhammad, may peace be on him, had passed away. Yet, […]
Source: RNS By Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — An Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo last month has led Roman Catholics to stop administering several sacraments […]
According to Encyclopedia Britannica: Muhammad, in full Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim, (born c. 570, Mecca, Arabia [now in Saudi Arabia]—died June 8, 632, […]
Source: BBC News A crocodile has killed a Protestant pastor who was baptising followers near a lake in southern Ethiopia. Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people […]
Source: BBC News Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been named in Egypt’s World Cup squad despite being injured in the Champions League final. Salah, 25, will not meet up with […]
By AFP – Jun 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES GENEVA — More than 12 migrants were shot dead by human traffickers last week while trying to escape a camp in Libya, […]
Sofia Christensen, Edward McAllister DAKAR (Reuters) – When Fatou Kine’s failed attempt to reach Europe left her jobless and penniless in Algeria, she turned to an agency she had heard […]
Migrants returning from Niger after fleeing Libya. (File photo: AFP) (AFP) May 26, 2018 14:06 The migrants from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia were being held hostage and tortured TRIPOLI: More than […]
Source: Religion & Politics By Yasmine Flodin-Ali I fell in love with Malcolm when I was fifteen. He was eloquent, handsome and, most importantly, revolutionary. Among a litany of emotionally stunted fictional […]
