People are divided on the proclamation by Gozo Bishop Mario Grech, who hinted that Catholics promoting divorce legislation are “wolves in sheep’s clothing”. Mgr Grech said those not in line with Church teachings should not expect to receive the Eucharist, a comment which some interpreted as a spiritual threat against […]
Nearly half of Britons believe the Bible is an important book but many fail to realise its influence on everyday language, a survey suggests. More people believe the expression “a drop in the bucket” originated from Tony Blair – at 12 per cent – than from the Bible – at […]
Catholics have been urged to observe the ancient practice of not eating meat on Fridays. The custom of abstaining from meat as an act of penance for the death of Christ will be re-established from September 16 – the first anniversary of Pope Benedict’s visit to Britain. Archbishop Vincent Nichols, […]
Since times immemorial, man has, at the hand of man, been suffering all kinds of miseries and cruelties; his rights have been violated; he has become alienated from his own species. Today, most of the evils humanity is confronted with are rooted in the violation and deprivation of human rights. […]
The very limited use of the Maltese language online is a major setback to the mother tongue even if there seems to be a strong desire for more websites in the vernacular. According to a survey released in Brussels, only 6.5 per cent of Maltese internet users choose to browse, […]
In contrast to most South Asian countries, modern India has always been officially ‘secular’, a word the country inscribed in its Constitution in 1976. Secularism, here, is not synonymous with the French ‘laïcité’, which demands strong separation of religion and the state. India’s secularism does not require exclusion of religion from […]
Healthy and established families are the strength of a nation and the backbone of the prosperity of a society. But the question arises: What makes a family healthy, and how we can strengthen our families? This is a very important question that comes across to mind while discussing the issue […]
Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Head of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Community, said: “Whenever any natural disaster occurs in the world, those who fear God are frightened lest any such future disaster puts them in difficulty. That any act of theirs may become a source of God’s displeasure. Such thinking is only of true […]
Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga has rejected a request by the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) to take in refugees trapped on the Libyan-Tunisian border. At a meeting in Brussels focussing on the influx of North African asylum seekers, Sommaruga said Switzerland had no more “capacity” and that the government did […]
A little glance at the recent history shows that hardly a day passes in which an Islamic event does not make headlines. Very unfortunately, in the world today, Islam is portrayed as a religion sanctioning violence, bloodshed, extremism, fundamentalism, fanaticism and terrorism. But, in reality, there is no connection between […]
Strengthening families is a subject which is one of the core issues of the contemporary world. Hundreds and thousands families are breaking every year around the world. Lack of stable and long-lasting families is a reality which cannot be denied. But the important point to discuss is to find the […]
“He lived a hero, he died a martyr… if they killed one Osama, a thousand others will be born,” says a comment on a Facebook group called ‘We are all Osama bin Laden’. The group was formed one hour after US President Barack Obama’s announcement of the al-Qaeda leader’s death. […]
Source/Credit: The Times of Malta: Every human life is precious and worthy, and the loss of a single human life is a tragedy and great loss, whoever the person is. The recent drowning of dozens of immigrants while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea towards Europe was one of […]
Protesters demonstrating yesterday, outside the US embassy in London, against the recent killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan by US military personnel. Photo: Leon Neal/AFP More than one hundred Islamic extremists rallied outside the US embassy in London yesterday to vent their fury at Washington over the […]
– Fears are high in Pakistan for what will happen now that Bin Laden had been killed, “says Nasim Malik (S). KALMAR SWEDEN – Terror die with fair policies, not by Osama Bin Laden, “says Nasim Malik (S) days after the leader of terrorist network al Qaeda have been killed […]
He distorted the true moderate peaceful teachings of Islam and made Islam unjustly associated with terrorism. He invited wars, occupation and destruction against Islamic countries and caused fear, hatred and discrimination against Muslims in the world. Because of him everyone all over the world became suspicious of Muslims and every […]
Osama Bin Laden was “an enemy of true Islam” and his death will hopefully end the era of terrorism, according to the head of the Islamic Call Society in Malta. “Bin Laden’s extremist convictions and terroristic practices caused great injustice to Islam and led to disastrous consequences for the Islamic […]
Islam is opposed to burials at sea, a spokesman for Al-Azhar, the top Sunni Muslim authority, said today after US officials said Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been given a watery grave. “If it is true that the body was thrown into the sea, then Islam is totally against […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta organised its Peace Conference on 25th February 2011, the full report is published in the daily Alfzal Rabwah in Urdu. (Alfzal Rabwah: Monday 2nd May 2011; pages 3, 4 and 6) Read Full Report in Urdu:
The organisers of the visit by Metropolitan Seraphim of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria mentioned that the original stimulus to organising the visit came from this column. How valuable do you think the visit proved to be? The Ecumenical Service at Cospicua last Thursday certainly served to raise our […]