UN Security Council meets over Syria in remote Swedish farmhouse
We still face a very serious divide on Syria — Guterres By AFP – Apr 21,2018 – JORDAN TIMES United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres (right) and Sweden’s Prime Minister […]
Early Women of Science, Technology, Medicine and Management
By: Salim Al-Hassani This article is a paper submitted to and presented at WISE 2018: World Muslim Women’s Summit & Exhibition, organised by TASAM, Istanbul, Turkey, from 28th Feb – […]
World Muslim Women’s Summit & Exhibition WISE 2018 Istanbul
By: The Editorial Team The World Muslim Women’s Summit & Exhibition WISE 2018 was held as a part of the 8th World Islamic Forum on the 1st -2nd of March 2018… The […]
Vatican rejects German bishops’ proposal to allow Protestant spouses to receive Communion
Source: CT Sources have told the outlets that Archbishop Luis Ladaria, the current prefect of the CDF, wrote the letter and that it was given papal approval. ‘It’s a rejection […]
Theresa May is ‘not behaving like a Christian’ and should consider resigning, says David Lammy
Source: CT Lammy said of the prime minister: ‘Theresa May feels like a politician with no conviction. She blows with the wind. She is a politician who is pragmatic to […]
St Paul was an ‘extremist’ who would despair at our church disunity
Source: CT What should the modern world make of St Paul? It’s one question the world-leading biblical scholar NT Wright has sought to engage in his latest book Paul: A Biography (SPCK, £19.99). Wright spoke with Christian Today about why westerners recoil at Paul, why he’d would despair at the […]
Ottoman Empire (1301-1922)
Introduction The Ottoman Empire The Great Mosque in Damascus, Syria © The Ottoman Empire was the one of the largest and longest lasting Empires in history. It was an empire […]
The life of a mediator: ‘We are constantly surrounded by people yet always alone’
By Kathrin Ammann This content was published on April 20, 2018 Most mediators work for up to 15 years and then do something else. Julian Hottinger has been mediating […]
Germans should stop reducing Africa to migration
Source: CNN There are really only two narratives that the public hears about Africa. One is a story of suffering — that is, the Africa that is hungry, poor and […]
Prince Charles to be next Commonwealth head
The Prince of Wales will be the next head of the Commonwealth, its leaders have announced. The Queen had said it was her “sincere wish” that Prince Charles would succeed […]
Good people are failing to tackle antisemitism, ex-chief rabbi says
Source: The Guardian BY Ben Quinn Lord Sacks speaks of shame over rise of antisemitism, saying ‘this is not the Britain I know and love Jonathan Sacks said on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day: ‘There is today almost no European country where Jews feel safe.’ Photograph: David Sillitoe for the […]
Poland marks 75th anniversary of uprising in Warsaw Ghetto
Source: Associated Press By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and VANESSA GERA WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Sirens wailed, church bells tolled and yellow paper daffodils of remembrance dotted the crowd as Polish and Jewish leaders extolled the heroism and determination of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighters on the 75th anniversary of their ill-fated […]
Commonwealth summit: The countries where it is illegal to be gay
Source: BBC News By Reality Check team BBC News Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Gay rights activists from Commonwealth countries are demanding that laws banning homosexuality should be overturned. Campaigner Peter Tatchell has […]
Suspect in anti-Semitic attack in Berlin turns himself in
Source: Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) – German police said on Thursday that a suspected perpetrator of an anti-Semitic attack had turned himself in after investigators managed to identify him with the help of witness accounts. Police launched the investigation after two men wearing Jewish skullcaps were insulted and attacked by three […]
Young Muslims from the Ahmadiyya Muslim children’s association walk for charity to help schools in Africa
Mahalia Mayne Reporter – Wimbledon Children from Ahmadiyya Muslim association walk for charity 1 comment Children put on their walking boots to help raise cash to build two schools in […]
Early Medieval Europeans were Migrants
Europe is inhabited by descendants of migrants, who moved around in the first millennium AC. Later people stopped mingling so much. Europe is presently trying to cope with a wave […]
Book Review: The Arab/Muslim Presence in Medieval Central Europe
Manfred W. Wenner International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 12, No. 1 (Aug., 1980), pp. 59-79 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/163627 source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/163627?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Germany and Immigration The Changing Face of the Country
Many Germans feel foreign in their own country and are afraid that immigration is changing their homeland rapidly. Every fifth person in Germany comes from an immigration background and […]
From phones to hospitals, Austria plans to clamp down on refugees
Reuters International This content was published on April 18, 2018 VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s government is proposing to make it harder for refugees to become citizens, confiscate asylum seekers’ cash […]
An open letter to the US Congress: don’t let Trump rip up the Iran deal
It was a major breakthrough, drastically reducing the risk of a nuclear arms race. Abandoning it now will do lasting damage • Signed by parliamentarians from Britain, Germany and France […]