Indonesia’s ‘minority within a minority’ celebrate Lunar New Year
Jan 25, 2020 – 17:19 By Stanley Widianto JAKARTA (Reuters) – As he does every year, ethnic Chinese Indonesian Purnama celebrated Lunar New Year on Saturday at a dinner […]
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Wolverhampton joins The Chatty Café scheme to tackle mental health awareness & loneliness
By Dr Abdul Salam, External Affair secretary By the grace of Allah on the 21st of November, 2019, the Wolverhampton council held a meeting to tackle mental health awareness and loneliness. Ingenious Smartphones and high speed fibre optic broadband internet have increased connectivity, but have they bought people together? Thousands […]
Indian Muslims anxious as court prepares to rule on destroyed mosque
Source: Swiss Info By Mayank Bhardwaj AYODHYA, India (Reuters) – In the Indian town of Ayodhya, minority Muslims are feeling under siege as they await a Supreme Court ruling on […]
USA: Ahmadi Muslim Women VA to hold Peace Symposium titled – The Pathway to Peace: Women’s Role as Peacemakers
Source: princewilliamtimes.com Day, Date & Time: Saturday, September 14th, 2019 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Venue: Masroor Mosque, 5640 Hoadly Road, Manassas, VA 20112 Charges: Free More information at: https://tinyurl.com/peace-symposium Join us for an informative session where we will discuss how women can contribute towards peace. About this Event The […]
Interfaith group pledges to use religion’s influence to address climate change, …
Source: Religion News Service LINDAU, Germany (RNS) — The international interfaith organization Religions for Peace introduced its first-ever female and first-ever Muslim secretary-general at its World Assembly on Friday (Aug. […]
Canada: Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya organizes event ‘Islam’s Response to Contemporary Issues’ to address misconceptions on Islam
Source: alhakam.org | S Mukarram Nazeer, Canada Correspondent As part of a special lecture series, an event titled Islam’s Response to Contemporary Issues was recently held by Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Canada. The event was focused on addressing misconceptions about Islam in the West. The event was hosted to provide non-Ahmadi Urdu speaking […]
Rights group warns of ‘rise of intolerant Islamism’ in Indonesia
Source: sbs.com.au |BY NICK BAKER President Joko Widodo is being urged to address his country’s chequered human rights record. Human Rights Watch has implored Indonesian President Joko Widodo to tackle an […]
Pew Research: Asia remains ‘enemy’ of religious freedom
Source: asianews.it The Pew Research Center report states that “in the 2007-2017 decade, government restrictions on religion – laws, policies and actions of state officials that limit religious beliefs and practices – have increased dramatically in the world.” Leading the ranking of countries that impose restrictions on religious freedom are […]
Ghana’s 100-year-old imam who went to church
Source: BBC Ghana’s chief imam is a man of few words, but the 100-year-old Muslim cleric certainly knows how to make waves – by attending a Catholic Church service as part of his birthday celebrations. Pictures of Sheikh Osman Sharubutu, sitting attentively in the pews of Accra’s Christ the King […]
Indonesia: New Book on Ethnic, Religious Violence
April 9, 2019 Government Repression and Communal Attacks in Post-Suharto Era Print EXPAND Cover of Race, Islam and Power: Ethnic and Religious Violence in Post-Suharto Indonesia by Andreas Harsono, […]
See How Generations of Muslims Have Taken Care of a Jewish Synagogue in India
By McKinley Corbley – Mar 6, 2019 FacebookTwitterEmailRedditMore Throughout history, there has been generations of conflict between Muslims and Jews – but there is nothing but peace and respect […]
A warning from India for European liberals on how to manage relations with Muslim minorities
January 23, 2019 Author Joerg Friedrichs Associate Professor of Politics, University of Oxford Disclosure statement Joerg Friedrichs does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any […]
Pope’s outreach to Islamic world in 2019 has deep roots
cruxnow.com: ROME – Once Pope Francis embarks on his trip to Panama to celebrate the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day on Jan. 23, it’s essentially off to the races. For the rest of the spring, he’ll have a jam-packed papal itinerary that will focus heavily on dialogue with the Islamic […]
Indonesia: Jokowi says people should live peacefully in diverse world
Apriadi Gunawan The Jakarta Post Medan, North Sumatra / Sun, December 30, 2018 President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said Indonesia’s diversity, which includes different ethnic groups, religions, cultures, customs and […]
Erdogan opens huge mosque in Germany amid rival rallies
Source: AlJazeera Thousands of rival demonstrators hit the streets of Cologne as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the country’s largest mosque at the end of his visit to Germany. […]
Will Europe Ban Male Circumcision?
Source: Mosaic By Seth Kaplan, who lectures at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), is the author of, among other books, Fixing Fragile States and Pathways for Peace: […]
In the Wake of Sectarian Debate in Social Media, Rising Out of Pakistan Politics — Urgent Need for a New Paradigm
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The Muslim Times is rising to the challenge, by the Grace of Allah, with the following collection from […]
Indian ‘cow protectors’ jailed for life over murder of Muslim man
Source: The Guardian By Michael Safi in Delhi Eleven cow protection vigilantes in the Indian state of Jharkhand have been sentenced to life in prison for killing a Muslim man who was […]
Moaning about mosque loudspeaker not blasphemy, says Indonesian Muslim group
Reuters International This content was published on August 24, 2018 JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s biggest Islamic organisation called for greater tolerance on Friday as it criticised a court that jailed […]
Movie: Ramanujan: A Prophet of Mathematics Born in a Hindu Family
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS (/ˈʃriːniˌvɑːsə rɑːˈmɑːnʊdʒən/;[1] listen (help·info); 22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920)[2] was an Indianmathematician who lived during the British Rule in India. Though he had almost […]
