Pakistan has a long road ahead in term of healing the wounds of its minority population December 24, 2016 Haris Raja Pakistan has a dark history of persecution against the Ahmadiyya community. Since its inception the right wing extremists have been causing agitations and inciting harsh treatment against Ahmadis based […]
Source: The Hindu Thiruvananthapuram: Secularism is not opposed to religion, but is opposed to the religious control over civil institutions, law and governance, historian Romila Thapar has said. She was […]
Source: Reuters By Gayatri Suroyo | JAKARTA An Indonesian court will proceed with a controversial blasphemy trial against Jakarta’s Christian governor, who is accused of insulting the Koran, a judge […]
Source: Buzzfeed News DENIZLI, Turkey — Sorena sought out the mullah after committing a sin she feared could not be forgiven. It was the winter of 2014, and Sorena was […]
Source: Associated Press By LOUISE WATT BEIJING (AP) — China’s head of religious affairs said that Beijing is willing to have constructive dialogue with the Vatican but stressed that Catholics […]
Source: Time BY Kerry Close China’s space exploration program is shooting for the moon—and Mars, too. A white paper released by the country’s cabinet promised that it will launch its first […]
Source: Dawn IT was the week before Christmas and, like all cities in the Western world, Berlin was lit up, the air was cold and the mood festive. At the Christmas market near the Zoologischer Garten train station, people milled about shopping and enjoying themselves. A short distance away, a […]
Source: Reuters By Lisa Jucca, Benjamin Kang Lim and Natalie Thomas | BEIJING/HONG KONG Every winter Sunday in the Chinese village of Youtong, hundreds of Catholic faithful brave subzero temperatures […]
Reuters International DEC 27, 2016 – Jakarta’s governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama looks at his lawyers inside the court room during his trial at the North Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia December 27, 2016. REUTERS/Bagus Indahono/Pool (reuters_tickers) By Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian court will proceed with a […]
HIBA ARSHAD Every day our newsfeed is flooded with reports of violence inflicted on women, followed by flashy statements from our government officials to provide justice to the oppressed. Such late gestures may appease the masses but no level of retribution can erase the painful memories that seep deep into […]
Source: India Today Gurdaspur, Dec 26 (PTI) -The 122nd International conference of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community began at Qadian town here. The first session of the convention was chaired by Maulana Muhammad Inam Ghaori (chief secretary of Ahmadiyya Muslim community, India), who said that the foundation of the convention was […]
Source: China Daily By Pang Zhongzhing, who is a professor of international political economy at Renmin University of China and a distinguished professor of Global Studies at Zhejiang Normal University. […]
Source: Aljazeera The headless body of a Muslim villager has been found days after he spoke to reporters on a rare government-guided media tour of restive northern Rakhine state, Myanmar […]
In what is probably the most ridiculous news you will hear today, a PIA flight has taken its passengers for a wild ride, literally. PIA flight PK307, which was bound to go from Lahore to Karachi, actually ended up in Muscat, Oman. The aircraft in question was a Boeing 777-340(ER) jet. […]
Source : BBC By Emma Jane Kirby BBC News, Istanbul As horrifying war reports are beamed out of Syria, a tiny radio station sends broadcasts in the other direction from […]
Source: ET BEIJING: In 2004, it overtook France. In 2005, it surpassed the United Kingdom. A year later it left Germany behind. In 2009, it dethroned Japan. And now it has set its sights on the No 1 spot. Never before in history has a country achieved such an unprecedented […]
Source: Time BY Ian Bremmer presidential candidates, Donald Trump made a lot of campaign promises. Though enough voters appear to have liked what they heard to make Trump President, some of those pledges, like deporting millions of illegal immigrants and banning Muslims from entering the country, are unlikely ever to be […]
Source: The Jakarta Post FadliThe Jakarta Post Batam | Sun, December 18, 2016 | 06:08 pm Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama (center) sits on the defendant’s chair at the […]
Source: Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police said Monday that they will take action against groups that use violence to enforce an edict from the country’s leading […]
Source: CNN By Emiko Jozuka and Manny Maung, CNN Yangon, Myanmar (CNN)Myanmar’s treatment of its Muslim Rohingya minority threatens to undermine the region’s security and stability, Malaysia’s Foreign Minister said […]