A painful lost year
Mar 09,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY The second week in March marks two devastating anniversaries. On March 11, 2020, Eileen, my beloved wife of 51 years, passed […]
Veiled in history: how women have been covered up
Source: Swiss Info In recent years it has mainly been Christian countries, especially in Europe, which have had issues with women wearing the veil, seen today as a form of […]
Part of plan to curb Alaska suicides, Army installs blackout window shades at Fort Wainwright
A soldier at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, talks about a blackout shade in his living quarters with Col. Adam Lange, deputy commander for sustainment for U.S. Army Alaska, in this video […]
‘This horror has to stop.’ Spiritual advisers to death row inmates decry recent wave of federal executions
Source: CNN (CNN)It wasn’t until Yusuf Nur was inside the execution chamber, standing next to a condemned man strapped to a gurney, that he understood why he’d been asked to be present. The inmate, Orlando Hall, had asked Nur to be his Muslim spiritual adviser in the weeks leading up […]
Financial Sacrifice Must Be For the Sake of Allah Alone
MAGAZINE: EDITION NOVEMBER 2020 Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad – The Promised Messiah and Mahdi (as) Portrait of the Promised Messiah (as) & Imam Mahdi (Guided One), Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad […]
Islam and the Happiness Revolution
https://www.reviewofreligions.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/happiness-small-shutterstock_667724323-1024×654.jpg 9th March 2021 Khalid Safir, UK The Quick, One-Step Guide to Happiness It is often believed that religion teaches you to make your life miserable in exchange for paradise in the next life. That is not true. In Islam, the Holy Qur’an explains ‘But for him who fears to […]
WHO advises against mandating COVID-19 vaccine to travel
09 Mar 2021 GENEVA: A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official on Monday (Mar 8) said that so-called “vaccine passports” for COVID-19 should not be used for international travel because […]
Faith communities urged to work together to protect women
An elder Catholic woman prays during a mass in Iraq. (AFP/File) Short Url https://arab.news/zz894 BENEDICT SPENCE March 09, 2021 LONDON: Speakers at the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity’s (HCHF) Women’s […]
What could cause a US-China war?
Mar 09,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – JOSEPH S NIE CAMBRIDGE — When China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, recently called for a reset of bilateral relations with the United States, a […]
US opposition to ICC probe undermines its claim to moral leadership
Mar 09,2021 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF US officials were quick to oppose the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s decision to open an investigation into alleged […]
Ten years of international failure in Syria
Author CHRIS DOYLE March 08, 2021 Syrian and Russian soldiers at a checkpoint near Wafideen camp in Damascus, March 2, 2018. (Reuters) Short Url https://arab.news/zy3j6 Conflicts and wars come in […]
Confess your sins, but you won’t be healed
BY HAKKI ÖCAL: COLUMNS MAR 08, 2021 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken listens as U.S. President Joe Biden participates in a meeting with his Mexican counterpart, at the White […]
I Look White To Many. I’m Black. This Is What White People Say To Me.
Source: Huffington Post I’ve been a fly on the wall when white people didn’t know anyone of color was looking or listening. By Cheryl Green Rosario I am a Black […]
15th World Religion Conference held by Ahmadis in Canada
5th March 20210 Syed Mukarram Nazeer, Canada Correspondent Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya British Columbia has been hosting the “World Religions Conference” in the city of Victoria since 2006. Victoria is the capital of British Columbia and is located on the southern end of Vancouver Island. Victoria is known for its abundant parkland and […]
New fault lines that define the Middle East
Author HAFED AL-GHWELL March 06, 2021 Coalition’s Brigadier General Vincent Barker and Iraq’s Staff Major General Mohammad Fadhel Abbas shake hands during a pullout ceremony at the Qayyarah air base. […]
Covid Drug 80 Times More Potent Than Trump’s Tested in Italy
Source: Bloomberg By Chiara Albanese and Flavia Rotondi March 6, 2021, 12:00 AM EST Siena’s single-shot antibody therapy could cut bottlenecks Pharma hub development could be part of push for production Tucked in the Tuscan hills around Siena in Italy, a research lab has come up with an antibody treatment for Covid-19 that […]
THE EXISTENCE OF GOD . A Vision of Greener Pastures
4th March 2021 Eaman Almasri, Canada The loss of your foundations is one of the most difficult experiences in the world. Losing everything familiar to you really is a sort […]
10 key findings about the religious lives of U.S. teens and their parents
BY JEFF DIAMANT AND ELIZABETH PODREBARAC SCIUPAC A family inside the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Parents have a lot of influence […]
Desert Storm: 30 years on
The end of the Gulf War on Feb. 28, 1991 saw the eviction of Iraq from Kuwait but paved the way for decades of conflict An Arab News Deep Dive […]
Muslims accept funeral ban
BY ARTHUR HALL Editor-at-large halla@jamaicaobserver.com Tuesday, March 02, 2021 http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/storyimage/JO/20210302/ARTICLE/303029952/AR/0/AR-303029952.jpg&maxh=332&maxw=504 MEMBERS of at least one Muslim community in Jamaica are prepared to observe the Government’s two-week ban on burials, even though this goes against a key tenet of their faith. Tariq Azeem, missionary for the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Jamaica, […]
