Religion News Service | By Josephine McKenna VATICAN CITY (RNS) American Cardinal Raymond Burke, the feisty former archbishop of St. Louis who has emerged as the face of the opposition to […]
One quality is immediately obvious that they were both liberators of slaves and there are many other commonalities between them, but, today I want to stress their emphasis on human […]
Russia Today: Two British women’s charities have cautioned ahead of landmark case in the Court of Appeal Wednesday that drinking alcohol when pregnant could become a criminal offense. If the […]
Epigraph: “The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.” Thomas Paine, one of the Founding […]
By Laiq Ahmed Atif, President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta. amjmalta@gmail.com The Islamic law, also known as sharia law, is one of the most misunderstood subjects in the contemporary world, both by […]
Epigraph: And most of them follow nothing but conjecture. Surely, conjecture avails nothing against truth. Indeed, Allah is well aware of what they do. (Al Quran 10:37) Pope Francis Thanks […]
Epigraph: “The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.” Thomas Paine, one of the Founding […]
Epigraph: And those who call not on any other God along with Allah, nor kill a person that Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit adultery (or fornication), […]
Epigraph: And those who call not on any other God along with Allah, nor kill a person that Allah has forbidden except for just cause, nor commit adultery (or fornication), […]
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Anglican priests should no longer be bound by the centuries-old principle of confidentiality in confessions when they are told of sexual crimes committed against children, the Church […]
Epigraph: Allah has created the heavens without any pillars that you can see, and He has placed in the earth firm mountains that it may not quake with you, and […]
Epigraph: An apple cannot be a rock and a monkey at the same time. Likewise, a man or a dove cannot be God, simultaneously. Concept of God of Islam and […]
Epigraph: Do they seek a religion other than Allah’s, while to Him submits whosoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and to Him shall they be […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times After more than eleven years of fighting, thousands of American casualties and more than half a million Iraqi […]
Source: Review of Religions, September 2014 Collected from the writings of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad – The Promised Messiah and Mahdi (as) The founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. In 1891, he […]
Epigraph: Indeed, you have in the Prophet of Allah an excellent model, for him who fears Allah and the Last Day and who remembers Allah much. (Al Quran 33:21/22) Written […]
Source: The Guardian By Michael Haines and Barbara Henning, October 17, 2014 Tomorrow afternoon a memorial service will be held for David Haines, one of the three Britons kidnapped by […]
Courtesy of Hanif Koya, California Author: Denise Spellberg Introduction In this original and illuminating book, Denise A. Spellberg reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of the story of American religious freedom—a […]
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which is apparent […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Shirin Ebadi was the first and only Iranian to receive a Nobel Prize in 2003. She was also the first […]