Source: www.advertiser.ie The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Ireland will hold its seventh annual Interfaith Peace Conference this Sunday in Clayton Hotel. The topic of this year’s conference is “The role of […]
Activists in the Irish city of Cork have added their own touches to ads that appeared on bus shelters in their city that call on people to “Visit Israel.” The […]
Source: www.galwaynews.ie The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association of Ireland is to host its seventh annual interfaith peace conference in the city later this month. The focus of the event is the role […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Greg Tobin: American Author So, who is St. Patrick, anyway, and why do we like him so much? Well, first, who he is not: he is not the benign figure wearing a green bishop’s miter holding a shamrock and casting the snakes from the shores […]
By JOSEPH LEVINE THE NEW YORK TIMES I was raised in a religious Jewish environment, and though we were not strongly Zionist, I always took it to be self-evident that “Israel has a right to exist.” Now anyone who has debated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will have encountered this phrase often. […]
Source: The Economist: FATHER Brendan Hoban is a priest in a remote Irish village who is also active in the national and international Catholic scene. In the midst of this busy life, he told me, he often reflects on something he heard from a professor when he was in seminary 40 years ago. “Irish […]
MARY FITZGERALD, Foreign Affairs Correspondent A teenager from Navan who joined rebels in Syria last year without his parents’ knowledge has been killed as fighting between the Assad regime and […]
STORY SUMMARY Pope Benedict on Friday appointed the new head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland to succeed Cardinal Sean Brady, whose tenure has been plagued by scandal over […]
The Times of Israel: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reiterated his belief in a two-state solution to the Middle East peace process on Tuesday, but was coy when commenting on […]
A woman has died from blood poisoning after Irish doctors allegedly refused to perform an abortion stating ‘this is a Catholic country’. An investigation has been launched into the death of Savita Halappanavar, who was 17 weeks pregnant and suffering a miscarriage and septicaemia. Read more
Source: BBC Ireland is on the verge of securing revenue from oil that could run into billions of pounds. Providence Resources Plc, an Irish and UK company, has confirmed its Barryroe site, 30 miles off the Cork coast, should yield 280m barrels of oil. The money generated will depend on […]
Source: Belfast Telegraph By Waqar Ahmad Ahmedi Tuesday, 2 October 2012 I will never forget my first visit to Hyde Park. I was then an A level student, accompanied by […]
Patriot News By Ivy DeJesus The unrest across the Muslim world in retaliation for a crudely made anti-Islamic video underscores a clash of cultures. It’s a clash between a free country whose government has no say in the endeavors of writers, artists or filmmakers, and incensed Muslims and their leaders who call […]
Washington Post: By Charles Kurthiamer: In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli […]
7 May 2012 Last updated at 11:51 ET Help An organisation which represents more than 850 priests in Ireland has been meeting to discuss the future direction of the Catholic Church. The Vatican has recently criticised leading members of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) for expressing views which contradict […]