‘He’s Catholic, I’m atheist. How do we raise our kids?’
Source: Sydney Morning Herald By Georgina Fuller As I sat in church looking at my eldest son Charlie standing before the gold altar, clutching a candle at his Holy Communion, I […]
Christians want marriages recognized in Morocco
Source: Reuters By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) – Christian convert Loubna and her husband Kamal marry in a small ceremony in a meeting room of a human rights group in […]
Religiously unaffiliated ‘nones’ are pursuing spirituality, but not community
Source: Los Angeles Times By Stephen Asma In the 1980s, only 10% of Americans said that they had no religious affiliation. Three decades later, more than 23% of Americans describe […]
‘State-sponsored’ bigotry spurs persecution against Ahmadis
Marguerite Afra SapiieThe Jakarta Post Jakarta | Thu, June 7 2018 Recent attacks against the Ahmadiyah community in East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), which forced more than two dozen […]
Christian women are wearing hijabs in solidarity with Muslims during Ramadan
Source: Independent By Narjas Zatat in news Non-Muslim women across the world are wearing the hijab for 30 days as part of the Ramadan Hijab challenge. The initiative was created by the World […]
China orders crackdown on large outdoor religious statues
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling Communist Party has ordered local governments to better regulate the construction of large outdoor religious statues amid increasing restrictions on religious expression […]
Religious tolerance ; Rabbi and imam awarded first Swiss Jews’ Dialogue Prize
Source: Swiss Info Channel Four religious leaders, including a rabbi and an imam, have been honoured for their efforts to bring Swiss religious communities closer together. Awarded for the first […]
Prime Minister Trudeau Delivers a Video Message on Ramadan
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USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Cleveland hosts Interfaith Symposium at Baitul Ahad Mosque – A Report
“If the followers of each religion act upon the teachings of his/her faith many of the problems of the present day will be solved”, said Ahmadiyya Muslim Missionary Imam Shamshad. […]
More than 500,000 people have visited the Museum of the Bible in its first six months
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer A camera operator waits for an event to start beneath a projected star-scape at the Museum of the Bible’s November grand opening. (Bill O’Leary/The […]
Why the Muslim World Needs to Follow Pope Francis?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The broader Sunni Shia conflict, with Saudi Arabia in one corner and Iran in the other, is no […]
Breaking News: Houses of new members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at attacked in East Lombok, Indonesia
Suggested Reading by the Muslim Times: Why the Muslim World Needs to Follow Pope Francis? A Radical Group Attacked Indonesian Citizens of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Minority Group in East Lombok While we […]
New Mosque Opened in Walsall by the Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
“Our religion seeks to bring people together through love and dialogue and never through force or fear” – Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that […]
As an imam, this is what I think British Muslims need to remember this Ramadan
Source: Independent We simply cannot take our security for granted anymore. The events of the past couple of years have proved this point. We need to work with the police, […]
Young British Muslims are becoming much more liberal – but they aren’t less religious as a result
Source: Independent Muslims, especially second generation Muslims, seem to be finding ways to reconcile British culture with religion. It’s only natural that, when Islamic thought has adapted to the context […]
Muslims Recoil at a French Proposal to Change the Quran
Source: The Atlantic BY KARINA PISER A manifesto published in the French daily Le Parisien on April 21—signed by some 300 prominent intellectuals and politicians, including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Manuel […]
Indonesian Government invites 50 ulemas to promote tolerant Islam
The government will bring 50 ulemas from various countries to attend a High Level Consultation of World Muslim Ulemas and Islamic Scholars in Bogor, West Java, which is scheduled to […]
Is He who created the heavens and the earth not able to create the likes of them?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The title of this article is a part of a verse of the holy Quran from Surah Yasin: […]
Abrahamic Perspective: The Purpose of Trials in our Lives!
Epigraph: And We will try you with something of fear and hunger, and loss of wealth and lives, and fruits; but give glad tidings to the patient, who, when a […]
When Americans Say They Believe in God, What Do They Mean?
Epigraph: Say, ‘O People of the Book! come to a word equal between us and you — that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partner with […]