Feb 06,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL His Majesty King Abdullah recently issued directives to concerned Royal Palace officials to continue implementing Royal initiatives extending help to underprivileged families, charity societies, orphanages, the elderly and people with disabilities. These most vulnerable groups of people will benefit from the Royal directives, which […]
Feb 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL HH Prince Zeid, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, has just issued a warning to all parties involved in the peace talks on the Syrian conflict, to not even think of granting amnesty to any person implicated in the commission of […]
Source: China Daily For the first time, Merkel’s New Year’s speech, which centers around the current refugee crisis this year, has been translated into Arabic. The version with Arabic […]
Reuters International DEC 22, 2015 – SWISSINFO.CH By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday that a Saudi-led coalition’s military campaign in Yemen appeared to be responsible for a “disproportionate amount” of attacks on civilian areas. Speaking […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be […]
See the faces of Syrian refugees, can you ban their travel? A friend of refugees, Angela Merkel is declared person of the year 2015 by the Time magazine
Imam Ibrahim M Noonan is Imam of Galway Mosque ‘Masjid Maryam, Vice National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Ireland and Missionary In-Charge of Ireland. Isil does not represent Muslims […]
Weeks from the Charter for Compassion launch, Karen Armstrong looks at religion’s role in the 21st century: Will its dogmas divide us? Or will it unite us for common good? […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Matthew 5:7) Pope Francis calls on every Catholic parish in Europe to host one migrant family Migrant crisis: Journey […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/7.0/players/embed.js?videoid=/video/news/2015/09/04/billionaire-refugees-island.cnnmoney Source: CNN Money An Egyptian billionaire is offering to buy an island for people fleeing to Europe from war-torn countries in the Middle East and Africa. Naguib Sawiris, one […]
Epigraph: One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself. One should not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated. The two […]
Epigraph: And what is the matter with you that you struggle not in the cause of Allah and of the weak — men, women and children — who say, ‘Our Lord, take us […]
Newsweek: by A Majeed — A SURVIVOR OF THE TALIBAN ATTACK ON THE ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL IN PESHAWAR RECALLS THE TERRIFYING ORDEAL. A teenage survivor of Tuesday’s Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar has described how he played dead after being shot in both legs by insurgents […]
theguardian: by Ally Fogg — Shocking evidence of the effects of austerity in Britain is being met with a silence that suggests a dangerous indifference While homelessness across all ages is rising, youth homelessness in particular is soaring When is poverty at its most dangerous? It is not, as you […]
Epigraph: O ye who believe! why do you say what you do not do? Most hateful is it in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not […]
Published on Nov 17, 2014 This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Our global and national history has shown a dangerous human […]
Abou Ben Adhem BY LEIGH HUNT Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, […]
http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/PlayerSeed.js?sid=281&width=560&height=419&playList=518483034 Source: Huffington Post Twelve Nobel Peace Prize winners penned an open letter to President Barack Obama urging his administration to release a U.S. Senate report on the CIA’s use […]
US military aircraft have dropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State (IS) militants in the key Syrian town of Kobane. US Central Command said C-130 transport aircraft had made “multiple” drops of supplies provided by Kurdish authorities in Iraq. US air strikes have helped push […]
theguardian: by Oliver Milman — In maiden speech, new high commissioner will point to a ‘chain of human rights violations’ in detention of asylum seekers Asylum seekers at the Manus Island detention centre in Papua New Guinea. Photograph: Eoin Blackwell/AAP The new United Nations high commissioner for human rights will use […]