By Maryam Vahedi Source: GroundReport After centuries, if not millennia, filled with dark histories of religious tensions between Muslims and Jews one may be considered delusional for suggesting that Muslims and Jews can live together peacefully in the Middle East. Many statesmen and community leaders have tried in vain to […]
The Seattle Chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA and the members of Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue will observe the Muslim fast of Ramadan and the Jewish fast of Tisha […]
Source: The Nation ISLAMABAD – “We are trying our best to make Pakistan a democratic country as per vision of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah by promoting interfaith harmony, national harmony and co-existence with diversity.” Minister In-charge for Ministry of National Harmony and Chairman All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, Dr Paul Bhatti, […]
Source: Express Tribune ISLAMABAD: In a day and age where people in Pakistan have a choice from close to 100 public and private television channels, there are few there where one […]
By Isaiah Benjamin and Usman Ahmed, 22 July 2012Comment In the spirit of fostering togetherness regardless of religious differences, Muslim youths in Kaduna yesterday hosted their Christian counterparts while breaking […]
Huff Post: by David Schanzer Last summer, I was honored to be invited to an Iftar dinner — the meal to break the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan — hosted by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. The guests consisted of many high ranking government officials, […]
Mukarram Naeem Ahmed Gondal, president of Jamaat Ahmadiyya’s Orangi Town chapter, was shot by two men on a motorbike as he was leaving his residence for work. Gondal, 52, was […]
Source: OnIslam & Newspapers Muslim and Buddhist groups in India called Tuesday, July 17, for the Indian government to intervene to end the ongoing atrocities committed against Muslims in neighboring Myanmar. “There are continuous news reports of atrocities and killing of ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar which has caused a […]
Source: Fox News Published July 19, 2012 Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Muslims in a Tennessee congregation prepared Thursday for the holy month of Ramadan a day after a federal judge ruled they have a right to occupy their newly built mosque, overruling a county judge’s order that was keeping […]
Source: Qantara A new inter-religious research training group seeks to investigate how people began to think about religion and to determine how thinking about religion can be made into a […]
Source: HUFFPOST RELIGION Rev. Pat Robertson weighed into the fraught world of interfaith marriage with some advice for a Christian fellow who plans to marry his Muslim girlfriend. “I’ve been with my girlfriend for three years and we’re planning on getting married,” writes Brad in the friendly Q&A section of […]
Source : THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. By SADANAND DHUME Mr. Dhume is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a columnist for WSJ.com. …. Perhaps the biggest potential defenders of liberal ideas such as freedom of worship are the minority Shiites and other heterodox Muslims. The Ahmadis have […]
A giant cake was cut on Saturday afternoon in celebration of the open house for Masjid Dar As-Salam, the new Islamic centre in Charlottetown. The Muslim community on Prince Edward […]
Source: Indian Express Fourteen-year-old Akbar’s appeal to the judge to let him remain with his Hindu guardian instead of transferring him to his Muslim mother has shot Aiku Lal Sandil […]
A group of Muslims and Catholics have met at the Vatican and exchanged views about their relations “in the current situation of the world”. (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – According to a Vatican statement, the Vatican’s top inter-faith dialogue official, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and the president of the International Islamic […]
// http://ventunotech.com/plugins/cntplayer/ventuno_player.js Source: newstrackindia.com Rampur, July 09 (ANI): India, the land of many cultures exemplifies communal harmony in many different ways. One such example is in Rampur district in northern Uttar Pradesh state where many jewellry shops owned by Hindus and Muslims line the Jama Masjid […]
As the first woman, Ada was invited to speak in the Ahmedim Mosque in Haifa. “A wonderful thing happened to me last Saturday. On June 30, I was invited to […]
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS | Wed Jul 11, 2012 REUTERS (Reuters) – When the Muslim holy month of Ramadan arrives next week, fasting will definitely begin on Friday […]
Source: Zeenews India Islamabad: The Pakistan government on Wednesday gave in-principle approval to a move to increase seats for non-Muslims in the national and provincial assemblies in proportion to their population. The decision was made by the federal cabinet during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, an […]
Source: Abpnews.com Interfaith Alliance head Welton Gaddy separates reason from rhetoric in radio show. By Bob Allen A Baptist minister and interfaith leader says it is time for Americans to get over their fear of Islam and get on with the assimilation of Muslims into their neighborhoods. “As a society […]