Source: Eurasia review August 7, 2012 By Hassan Benmehdi Morocco is becoming a trailblazer in the Arab world in terms of countering extremist ideology and promoting “tolerance, respect and dialogue among religious groups”, according to a just-published report. In its latest study on religious freedoms around the world, the US […]
Jordan Times | Aug 07, 2012 | 00:25 AMMAN — The Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS) on Sunday held a roundtable on “Religion and Society in the Middle East” in collaboration with the Australian embassy in Amman. According to a statement from the institute, the Australian participants were headed […]
Reward offered after fire destroys mosque After learning about an early morning fire Monday that burned down the Islamic Center of Joplin, Mark Struckhoff immediately thought of a July arson attempt there. Struckhoff, executive director of the Council of Churches of the Ozarks, said although investigators are searching for a […]
By SOUAD MEKHENNET International Herald Tribune WASHINGTON — Muslims in Western countries say they have gotten used to the fact that as elections get closer, politicians pump up the volume of accusations against them, whether they are Sunni, Shiite or of another sect. In some European nations, it was the […]
Rabwah.net: by Dure Adan: 1400 years ago in the city of Medina, the political ruler of the time whose name was Muhammad ordered a census. My guess is that it […]
By Aude Jehan The Daily Star For 3.5 million French Muslims, Ramadan began Friday, July 20. Enthusiasm for fasting seems stronger than ever this year, with 71 percent of Muslims […]
Huff Post: Simran Jeet Singh On Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks shook the American nation to its core. Nineteen individuals associated with al Qaeda coordinated to hijack four passenger jets and use them as weapons of mass destruction. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 claimed approximately 3,000 lives, including all […]
AJLOUN — Hundreds of Christian worshipers converged on Saint Elias Church in Ajloun, 70km northwest of Amman, on Friday to perform pilgrimage. The pilgrims attended a religious mass and prayed […]
Source: NY Times. By Reuteres The government told three international aid agencies on Thursday not to help thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have been fleeing into Bangladesh to escape violence in neighboring Myanmar. The announcement, directed at the aid agencies Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Muslim Aid and Action […]
Written by Onimisi Alao, Jos Friday, 03 August 2012 05:03 The Catholic Archbishop of Jos, Most Rev. Ignatius Ayau Kaigama yesterday made a case for unity and peace among Christians […]
The Christian apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus) and Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim ruler after the death of Prophet Muhammad, were both great men of faith who etched their influence on their respective religions. In his commentary on Paul, Luke Timothy Johnson, a professor at Emory University, said: “Paul […]
……. New Film ‘Besa’ Reveals Hidden Past A new documentary traces the forgotten history of Albanian Muslims saving Jews and brings their descendants together. The still-emerging stories from shrinking circles of living Jews who survived persecution by Nazis are among the most interesting and provocative. These are not the stories […]
NICOLA BERKOVIC From: The Australian A SYDNEY man who agreed under an Islamic marriage contract to pay his wife a $50,000 “deferred dowry” if he ever left her has been forced by the NSW Supreme Court to honour their agreement. In a decision believed to be an Australian first, the […]
Source: Nation.Pk SLAMABAD – In a bid to promote interfaith harmony in Pakistan, Minister of State for National Harmony, Akram Masih Gill, said on Wednesday that formation of national peace committees for interfaith harmony was under way. While talking to a delegation of Ulema headed by Allama Muhammad Shoaib, Chairman […]
The Islamic fault lines in the state widens with extremists attacking minority sects Amir Mir, War on The Kafirs, the broad Sunni-Shia division does not explain all of it • […]
Source: Ucanews.com Christians on Tuesday joined Muslims in Lahore to protest what they say is genocide being committed in Myanmar against Rohingyas in western Rakhine state. Dozens of Christian joined the protest outside the Press Club in Lahore urging UN intervention to end alleged violence against the minority Muslim ethnic group. Christian leader Saleem Gabriel said […]
by Avi Spiegel, co-authered by Adina Bathzniki, HUFFINGTON POST Imagine this scenario: a group of women in southern California ask their local YMCA for an extra swim class. The YMCA would have to stay open a bit later than usual, but it happily obliges. It is summer, and the women, […]
By Marwan Boltrosh Source: Kuwait News Agency LONDON, July 22 (KUNA) — Ramadan atmosphere for Arab and Muslims living throughout Europe is different, compared with the annual spiritual experience at home, with many sensing distress for performing annual religious services far from their loved ones. However, the city of London […]
A call for Muslims and Christians that they can work together! Christians and Muslims have a lot more in common!
Top Sunni mufti and head of Sunni scholars in France Sheikh Sankoh Muhammadi has embraced Shia Islam after a visit to the holy city of Karbala in Iraq. It is […]