Europe: Integrating Islam
Source / Courtesy: Council on Foreign Relations Author: Toni Johnson, Senior Staff Writer Updated: July 25, 2011 Since 9/11, Western Europe’s growing Muslim population has been the focus of debate on issues ranging from immigration policy to cultural identity to security. Several incidents in recent years have increased tensions between […]
Abdullah interfaith center set up in Vienna
By ARAB NEWS VIENNA/RIYADH: Saudi Arabia, Austria and Spain set up Thursday a new center for interfaith dialogue in Vienna. Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger signed the founding document Thursday along with his Spanish and Saudi counterparts Trinidad Jimenez and Prince Saud Al-Faisal. “The dialogue with and between religious communities […]
Egypt protesters urge Muslim-Christian unity
By ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO: Hundreds of protesters marched from Egypt’s state mosque toward Cairo’s Tahrir Square to denounce a bloody attack on Coptic Christian protesters, only to be stoned by a Acrowd of onlookers outside Al-Azhar mosque. A crowd of onlookers threw rocks at the demonstrators outside Al-Azhar mosque. Undeterred, the group marched […]
Iceland: 2nd Conference of Religious Founders Day
Alhamdolillah, the conference was held as per programme. It started with the recitation of Holy Qur’an by Mr. Mansoor Masud Ahmad at 17.00 at Nordic House, Reykjavik. Mr. Willium Bilal Atkinson delivered his speech on Religious Tolerance in Islam. He gave different examples from the life of Hazrat Mohammad […]
Bekasi municipality officially bans Ahmadiyyah
Hans David Tampubolon, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Bekasi municipality has officially banned the religious practice of the Ahmadiyah sect on Thursday, a move pluralists deemed as the legitimation of a violation of the spirit of the Constitution. The head of the Bekasi Agency for State Unity, Politics and Community […]
Malta│Changes of Society and Church
Credit/Source: / Wednesday, October 12, 2011 , by KUrt-Sansone Changing norms of society hurting Church’s bottom line Calling the faithful: The Church needs more support as it contends with falling income and higher expenditures. Photo: Chris Sant Fournier With donations and collections forming the bulk of the Maltese Catholic Church income, the […]
The Revival Of Islam media page
Click on the Image to visit the page In this time where we involved more in a Visual World , the Revival of Islam team has tried to bring out something with the hope that the Jamaat members and the remaining public can take the best from it . This […]
Issue: Bombing forbidden in Islam: Ba’asyir
Jakarta Post Forum Discussion: Firebrand Islamic cleric and terror convict Abu Bakar Ba’asyir has condemned suicide bomb attacks on places of worship, saying such acts are “forbidden in religion”. He said that non-Muslims should be kept safe from any harm. “Bomb attacks are an accursed act. They are sinful, except […]
Islam’s war on the Cross: Egypt’s move to democracy under threat after latest attack on Coptic community
Christians in Egypt are used to persecution, but this week’s deadly attacks on a Copt demonstration threaten the country’s move from military rule to democracy. In the 19 or so centuries since Christianity first took root in Egypt, the ritual of mourning has become an all-too-familiar experience for the majority […]
United States of America – Race and Religion to the fore in US Republican race
Source/Credit: AFP& : Tuesday, October 11, 2011 , by Michael Mathes, Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Photo: Richard Ellis/Getty Images Republican hopefuls insist the 2012 White House race will hinge on the economy, but it is the conservative hot-button issues of race and religion that currently dominate the […]
The curse of the minorities!
Source/Credit: The Express Tribune: By Yaqoob Khan Bangash / Ocotber 10, 2011 Everyone in this world is a minority in one way or the other. In a society, men are either the majority or the dominant sex, one religion outnumbers another, one sect has more followers than the other, or one ethnicity overwhelms […]
Rabbis: ‘Price tag’ contradicts Torah
Religious leaders from all sides of national-religious spectrum strongly condemn Jewish ‘acts of revenge’ against Arab targets. Chief military rabbi urges yeshiva heads to act against phenomenon Chief Military Rabbi Brigadier-General Rafi Peretz has demanded that hesder yeshiva rabbis condemn “price tag” activities and act against them, in light of […]
Qadri supporters rail against US, Ahmadis
Credit/Source: The Express Tribune: By Rana Tanveer : October 10, 2011 Sunni Ittehad announces ‘Remove government’ train march on Nov 21. PHOTO: AFP LAHORE: Speakers at the Sunni Ittehad Council’s (SIC) National Khatam-i-Nabuwat Conference railed against the death sentence handed to Mumtaz Qadri for the murder of Salmaan Taseer, as well as Ahmedis […]
Yom Kippur: Forgive and be forgiven
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, observed this year from sundown on Friday night, October 7th until nightfall on October 8th, and is the Most Awesome Day in the Jewish calendar. Concluding the “Ten Days of Repentance,” also known as the “Days of Awe,” Yom Kippur is a day where […]
The making of the modern maulvi — VIII
Credit/Source: The Express Tribune: By: Ajmal Kamal / Published: October 7, 2011 By the time Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi became a prominent active maulvi, Muslim shurafa as a class or a bunch of upper caste groups — both with a religious bent of mind and with a more open worldly outlook — […]
Christian leaders plot ecumenical future in Indonesia
By Paul R. Kopenkoskey, An estimated 275 Christian leaders are meeting in Indonesia this week (Oct. 4-7) to plot an ecumenical future in what one veteran of the ecumenical movement called a watershed gathering. Leaders of the fledgling Global Christian Forum will gather evangelical, Pentecostal, mainline Protestant, Roman Catholic and […]
Pilgrims served Zamzam on arrival
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: The Al-Zamazima Office, which serves Zamzam water, has started the implementation of this year’s Haj plan. The plan aims to provide the blessed water to pilgrims from the moment of their arrival in Saudi Arabia until their departure, the office’s head Sulaiman […]
Peres: Galilee mosque arson shameful for the State of Israel
The President stresses the importance of the time in which mosque attack took place – the Ten Days of Atonement. President Shimon Peres on Monday condemned an arson attack on a mosque in the Upper Galilee village of Tuba the night before, branding it an immoral and illegal act that […]
Picture of the Day: Flagellation and Mortification: Phuket vegetarian religious festival thailand
It has been claimed that Pope John Paul II also practiced flagellation! Flagellation or flogging is the act of methodically beating or whipping (Latin flagellum, “whip”) the human body. Specialised implements for it include rods, switches, the cat o’ nine tails and the sjambok. Typically, flogging is imposed on an […]