By JT – Sep 04,2017 -JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL AMMAN — Heads of churches in Jerusalem on Monday issued a statement expressing their concern over Israeli violations of the status quo of the city’s holy sites. In July 2017, the heads of the Churches in Jerusalem were issued a […]
Source: CNN By Tamara Qiblawi and Kara Fox, CNN Graphics by Henrik Petterson, CNN (CNN)For the 1.8 billion Muslims around the world, the Hajj is a spiritual pinnacle. Each year, […]
Source: Associated Press By OMAR AKOUR and AHMED HATEM MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — In Saudi Arabia, more than 1.7 million pilgrims are marking the start of the hajj pilgrimage […]
Source: Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — More than 1.7 million Muslims from around the world have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the start of the annual hajj […]
Source: Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An attorney for the founder of a mystical, New Age version of Shiite Islam says an Iranian court has sentenced his client to death. Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei tells The Associated Press that the court sentenced Mohammad Ali Taheri to death on charges of […]
Source: Associated Press By AMIR VAHDAT TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Just a couple of weeks into her appointment, the new Iranian vice president’s decision to abandon her fashion style for […]
Source: The New York Times By BEN HUBBARD BEIRUT, Lebanon — For three decades, Hezbollah maintained a singular focus as a Lebanese military group fighting Israel. It built a network of bunkers and […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Abby Sewell Reem Kaedbey was never very religious. She’s not even sure there is a God. But when it came to marriage, she never had […]
Aug 28,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – EDITORIAL The apparently imminent fall of the city of Tal Afar to the Iraqi forces backed by local militias, notably Hashed Al Shaabi, so soon after the recapture of Mosul is an added evidence that Daesh’s days in Iraq are now numbered. Tal Afar, strategically […]
Source: Time BY ROBIN SHULMAN | PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANNY WILCOX FRAZIER—VII FOR TIME Just over a year ago, Ghazweh Aljabooli and her husband and five children landed at the Des Moines airport and […]
Source: The Economist The auguries are mixed. “DEAD, dying or detained.” That is how a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt describes the state of his comrades in what […]
Source: BBC News In the Netherlands, thousands of Iranian Muslim migrants and refugees are converting to Christianity, despite conversion from Islam being considered apostasy in Iran and punishable by death. […]
. Aug 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah The Middle East is a region that has been deprived of peace for no less than a full decade. All efforts, by the UN, superpowers, regional actors and mediators over the years to resolve causes of instability have failed. Actually, the […]
Source: BBC News By Selin GiritBBC News, Istanbul 22 August 2017 Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionThe new curriculum will affect five-year-olds, 10-year-olds and teenagers in year nine (file pic) “In Turkey, […]
Source: NPR BY LAUREN FRAYER When children in Turkey head back to school this fall, something will be missing from their textbooks: any mention of evolution. The Turkish government is phasing […]
Source: The Washington Post By Loveday Morris and Ruth Eglash August 16 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Aug. 13. (Dan Balilty/Reuters) As neo-Nazis and white supremacists […]
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL Egyptian security forces stand guard at the border as Palestinian Muslim pilgrims arrive at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip, […]
MENEKSE TOKYAY | Published — Saturday 19 August 2017 Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to supporters after attending Friday prayers in Istanbul. (AP) ANKARA: The conflict in Syria will […]
Source: BBC News Image copyrightEPAImage caption:Saudi Arabia had threatened to impose conditions on Qatari pilgrims attending the Hajj in Mecca Qatar has confirmed that Saudi Arabia will open its border […]
Source: CNN By Nicole Gaouette and Laura Koran, CNN Updated 1750 GMT (0150 HKT) August 15, 2017 Washington (CNN)The State Department’s annual report on international religious freedom was highly critical of a number of countries, […]