Religion and politics in the Philippines
GMA News: Lately, there has been no shortage of press coverage on the religiosity of politicians. The current Vice-President Jejomar Binay projects himself as a devotee of the Sacred Heart of Jesus […]
Maid’s Cries Cast Light on Child Labor in India
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — The girl’s screams were brittle and desperate. Neighbors in the suburban housing complex looked up and saw a child crying for help from an upstairs balcony. She was 13 and worked as a maid for a couple who had gone on […]
A society that persecutes Christ is heading for terrible trouble
Daily Telegraph: This week before Easter, I chanced upon the following two quotations. The first says: “Not for 2,000 years has it been possible for society to exclude or eliminate […]
No looking back for us
Credit: Dawn.com via Wasim Sroya WHO was Master Abdul Qudoos Ahmad? How would you know even if you care? The 43-year-old schoolteacher’s story received scant attention in the media. Described by his students and peers as a well-known and ‘much-loved’ schoolteacher, perhaps far more ominously for him, he was also […]
Christians and Jews Rediscover Interracial Haven
INDIANAPOLIS — After the summons to worship, the Lord’s Prayer and the first hymn of the morning, the pastor of the South Calvary Missionary Baptist Churchhere asked the visitors to stand. […]
The Indefensible Silence of Media over the Sickening Slaughter of Qudoos
Pakteahouse: by Rashid Zafar: Every time I gripped my pen to write about the most sickening murder, imagery of deceased Master Abdul Qudoos would incapacitate my fingers to paralysis and my senses […]
The Great Martyrdom of Abdul Qudoos (Shaheed): A Failed Conspiracy to Eliminate Ahmadiyya Muslim Minority In Pakistan
Alislam.org: In his Friday Sermon of 6th April 2012, the Imam of World Wide Ahmadiyya Movement narrated the actual events that led to the brutal muder (martyrdom) of Master Abdul […]
Enlightenment Through True Khilafat: Press Conference of World Ahmadiyya Leader
mta.tv: Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Fifth Divinely blessed and elected Successor of Promised Messiah and Mehdi talks to Urdu media in UK. He sheds light on many contemporary and important […]
Predictions on Pakistan: Country break up? Confrontation with US: Grim Future
Pakistan continues to slide down on both domestic and international front. Domestically the fight between state institutions, the tensions between the predominant Punabi establishment and the smaller ethnically oriented provinces […]
Global Injustice: Not a country’: ICC blocks Palestine war crimes probe
Russian TV; The ICC has refused Palestine’s bid for an investigation into the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza strip on the basis that Palestine is not a recognized state. […]
MLK, Trayvon and Jesus
Huff Post April 4 is the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This week is Holy Week. So what do Trayvon Martin, Dr. King and Jesus have in common? No, this question isn’t the beginning of a bad joke — the answer is […]
Afghanistan presses for answers on long-term U.S. military bases
Source: Reuters Authors: Sanjeev Miglani and Hamid Shalizi Afghanistan wants the United States to clearly spell out what sort of military presence it will leave behind once most of its combat troops leave by the end of 2014, a senior Afghan official said. It is also pressing Washington in talks […]
Iraq’s Shiite-Sunni Divide Growing
Source: Huffington Post Author: Hamza Hendawi BAGHDAD — Now that U.S. forces are gone, Iraq’s ruling Shiites are moving quickly to keep the two Muslim sects separate – and unequal. Sunnis are locked out of key jobs at universities and in government, their leaders banned from Cabinet meetings or even […]
One Million Hijabs For Shaima Alawadi: Women Wear Hijabs In Support Of Slain Iraqi Woman
By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) Jean Younis won’t be wearing an Easter bonnet at church this Sunday. Instead, the office manager at Bonita Valley Adventist Church in National City, Calif., will don an Islamic headscarf to support the family and friends of Shaima Alawadi, the Iraqi immigrant and […]
Brits to pay $3 bln to be spied upon on web, emails, texts
Russian TV: UK taxpayers will have to pay billions of dollars to have their web surfing, email exchange, text messaging, and even Skype calls, monitored. In addition to the hefty […]
Asian Human Rights Commission – Urgent Appeals Programme for Ahmadi Teacher
Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-057-2012 PAKISTAN: In a hate campaign against the Ahmadis the police tortured to death an innocent school teacher ISSUES: Torture; ill-treatment; arbitrary arrest; religious minority groups; impunity; […]
A murder most most foul: Saleem Shahzad, Master Abdul Qudoos, Who is next?
Pakteahouse: Usman Ahmad: Prior to anything else being said, let it be clearly stated that the recent murder of Master Abdul Qudoos at the hands of the police is not […]
Paris torture instruments auction suspended after protests
Rfi France. An auction of instruments of torture due to take place in Paris on Tuesday has been cancelled after protests from France’s culture minister and human rights campaigners. The planned sale was organised on behalf of the descendants of a former French public executioner, Fernand Meyssonnier, who died in […]
Kashmir’s Hindus have survived ordeal
Source: The pioneer Twenty three years after they were last driven out of their homeland, the Hindus of Jammu & Kashmir have survived the nightmare and are now even more emboldened to return to the State of their origin. They cannot remain refugees in their own country After bearing the […]
Leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community warns Israel against attack on Iran, starting WW-III
Ahmadiyya Times: By Imran Jattala: This time the war will not remain just between Israel and Iran; but it will force all countries of the world to fight each other,” Hadhrat Ahmad wrote […]