MUSCAT: The Majlis Al Shura yesterday approved the recommendations of the Majlis Al Shura Health and Social Committee’s report on the Marriage Support Fund. The Majlis decided to present the report to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said. The approval came after expanded and detailed discussions by members of the […]
A girls’ secondary school has championed the diversity cause by appointing a veil-wearing Muslim girl to head her form. Fourteen-year-old Sara Ezabe is proof of what Blata l-Bajda’s St Ignatius College Girls’ Junior Lyceum headmaster Victor Agius insists is important for the school – diversity and tolerance. After two years […]
The Bishops of Malta and Gozo yesterday expressed their sorrow to those who during the run up to the referendum may have felt wronged by the words or actions of members of the clergy, and similarly professed unconditional forgiveness to all those the Church feels may have insulted it. “We […]
The Amir of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Nigeria, Dr Moshood Fashola, has condemned the killing of 10 corps members at the recent political violence in the northern part of the country. He condemned the killing at a news conference in Lagos, describing it as anti-Islamic and the handiwork of a number […]
LAHORE: Victims of the May 28, 2010, terrorist attacks on the Ahmedi worship places are still waiting for the Punjab government to start investigation and catch the masterminds and culprits behind the heinous attacks, which killed 86 innocent people and injured several others. According to eyewitnesses and different news reports, […]
Photo: Google images (From the archives: On May 28, 2010 in Lahore Pakistan two mosques of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat were attacked by terrorists which resulted the death of 86 innocent worshippers who were gathered to perform their Friday Prayers. The following article was written after the attacks about the ‘history of religious persecution’, is reposted below […]
Mladic’s capture signals that justice will eventually catch up with mass murderers SERBIA has finally “captured” the Serbian mass murderer Ratko Mladic. One of the three Butchers of Balkans — the other two being the late Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic — Mladic eluded international justice for 17 years although […]
Sir Chaudhry Muhammad Zafarullah Khan Sahib Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (6 February 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Pakistani diplomat, Pakistan’s first foreign minister, renowned international jurist and a scholar of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Community. Khan was born on February 6, 1893, in Sialkot, India, the son of Nasrullah […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — I am a Muslim physician. For the past decade, I have taught a simple principle to my medical students: Never jab your patients where they hurt. Not because you don’t have the freedom to do so. But exercising your freedom recklessly would not foster trust between you […]
By Sami Aboudi, Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) – Mohammed Fathi worked his brush gently over an icon of Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, removing soot from its surface inside a church gutted in an attack by Islamist militants this month. “It takes a lot of careful work to do that,” Fathi […]
The Jakarta Post In reference to Mr. Aries Musnandar’s letter “The History of Abrahamic religions” published in The Jakarta Post on May 16, allow me to share my views. There is nowhere in the Koran that mentions that Muhammad (peace be upon him) was the last prophet and that there is […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Islamic Affairs Minister Saleh Al-Asheikh has emphasized the need for utilizing modern information media including the Internet and FM radio stations to spread the message of Islam. “FM radios with shortwave have been found more effective in propagating Islam,” the minister said, […]
By YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS MADINAH: Madinah Gov. Prince Abdul Aziz bin Majed will sponsor on Tuesday the graduation ceremony of the 47th batch of graduates from the Islamic University in Madinah, rector Muhamamd bin Ali Al-Oukala has announced. He said the graduates came from 160 countries around the […]
Banda Aceh. Acehnese clerics have criticized Amnesty International’s call for the Indonesian government to repeal a bylaw that allowed caning, arguing that the practice did not violate any regulation in the world. In a statement released on Sunday, Amnesty said that caning violated the UN Convention Against Torture, which Indonesia […]
Filmmaker Terrence Malick’s latest, “The Tree of Life,” has been alternately described as a “tone poem” delving into issues about faith, family and forgiveness and a “coming of age story about the universe,” so it’s understandable that Monday’s Cannes press event got a little heavy. The movie tells the story […]
By YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS Published: May 23, 2011 01:00 Updated: May 23, 2011 01:00 MADINAH: Minister of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Dawah, Call and Guidance Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Al-Shaikh will launch on Monday a special website for the Holy Prophet’s Sunnah. The function will be at the location […]
The Holy Quran says about the Judgment Day, “Men ask thee concerning the Hour. Say, “The knowledge of it is with Allah alone.’ And what would make thee know that the hour may be nigh?” (Al Quran 33:64) But Mr. Fitzpatrick predicts the doomsday, not in 1000 years, or in 30 […]
The National Education Ministry’s plan to reconstruct the curriculum of religious education for students calls for the attention of all stakeholders, particularly because religious education has played and always plays an important role in the creation of an Indonesian identity. As we live in a diverse country, students should learn […]
I have come about to write this article after much thought and prayer and not without spiritual and psychological anguish, even at this very instant that I write. Over the last few months leading to the referendum, as an official minister of the Catholic Church I have been involuntarily made […]