Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny launched a blistering attack on the Vatican on Wednesday, accusing it of “dysfunction, disconnection and elitism” in its failure to tackle clerical child sex abuse. His hard-hitting comments came in a parliamentary debate on a report last week which accused the Roman Catholic Church of […]
Bali Island, Indonesia – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton should use her visit to Indonesia this week to press Jakarta to address human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. The United States last year lifted a ban on cooperation with Indonesia’s army special forces, known as Kopassus, which was […]
The Church of Scientology is rapidly losing support in Switzerland, and the number of members is declining, religious experts say. According to a report in the SonntagsZeitung newspaper, theologist Georg Otto Schmid, an expert on sects, said that support for Scientology is “shrinking.” “I would imagine that the sect will […]
Source:Asiatimes on Line. SINOGRAPH The ordination of a new bishop of Shantou without papal blessing exposes simmering fissures between China and the Holy See in which the possibility of an objectively schismatic Church of China is becoming quite real. Now more than ever, all Catholics in China would be served […]
Being a minority of about 10 in a predominantly Muslim country of almost 250 million people is truly being a minority. My National Identity Card lists me as a Christian, since every citizen is required to profess one of six prescribed religions by law – none of which is Judaism. […]
Source: News-Leader.com I write this as the countries surrounding Saudi Arabia and Israel are at obvious boiling points with respect to their government’s overthrow or potential revolutions. The people are rising up, fuelled by a hatred of either the ruling leaders now in power, or the Americans occupying their country […]
By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS ISTANBUL: In what can rightly be described as a seminal step in relations between the Muslim world and the Western world, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the leading nations of the Western world led by the United States and the European Union agreed Saturday to […]
You can only know that non-Muslims also exist in Pakistan if you come into direct contact with one, not otherwise. PHOTO: AFP Source/Credit: The Express Tribune: http://blogs.tribune.com.pk A lot has been written about the plight of minorities in Pakistan– some by minorities themselves but mostly by the majority. In most such […]
While church leaders pledge their support for the Assad regime, Christians in Syria are backing the protest movement for democratic change. The endorsement of the regime’s propaganda slogans by the representatives of the churches puts them in an increasingly precarious position, as Claudia Mende reports. Source: http://en.qantara.de/ In their official […]
Death Penalty For Apostates ! By Non-Ahmadiyya Mullah Dr. Israr Ahmad. According to the most of the Muslim clerics and zealots apostate should be punished with death penalty. They believe that no one has the right to change his faith, once he declares himself a Muslim. They preach this distorted […]
An Ahmadi man was shot dead last evening around 8 pm as his car approached his office in Nawabshah, Sindh, Pakistan. Malik Mabroor Ahmad, a renowned advocate and president of the local Ahmadiyya Muslim Community fell victim to anti-Ahmadiyya hate campaign by the Islamist extremists. According to the reports an armed man casually […]
After the discovery of a vast, US$22 billion treasure trove in the vaults of a Hindu temple, India is agonizing over letting the priests keep the riches or using them for the greater good. While the sacks of diamonds and precious stones and three-meter-long gold necklaces would make Kerala temple […]
The Catholic Church in Germany plans to open up a decade of personnel files to criminologist researchers, according to a magazine report, in a bid to facilitate an independent investigation into sexual abuse at Church-run institutions. News magazine Der Spiegel said bishops have decided to allow the Criminological Research Institute […]
Indonesia has been urged to repeal its blasphemy laws and provide greater protection to religious minorities – including Christians and the Muslim Ahmadiyya sect – in order to safeguard its reputation as one of the world’s most progressive and tolerant Muslim-majority countries. “If extremists are allowed to continue to terrorise religious minorities with impunity, […]
Reaction at globeandmail.com to Monday’s article on Muslim youth in Canada was swift, and divided. Many online commenters expressed fear about how growth in the Muslim population will change Canada. In response, Muslim readers went online to address misconceptions about how they reconcile their faith with their citizenship. In one exchange, […]
PART: 2 Women in Islam, speech delivered by by Laiq Ahmed Atif, president Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta, in the ‘Seminar about Women’, on Friday 17th June 2011. This especial event was organised to commemorate the “International Women’s Day Centenary 1911-2011″, by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta. Find original post:
Following a series of abuse cases in Europe and North America, revelations have emerged of sexual abuse by priests in a number of African countries. The case of Father Renato Kizito, who is accused of raping young men in Kenya, shows how local power structures work in favor of the […]
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected two appeals against a ban on the construction of new minarets in Switzerland.Judges ruled that the plaintiffs – three Muslim organisations and a private citizen – were not victims of an alleged human rights violation. The Strasbourg-based court on Friday announced that […]
The Church of Scientology is a notoriously difficult subject for journalists. The press has long been considered an enemy of the church, which was founded half a century ago by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion, author Janet Reitman tells the fascinating […]