Source: AJC.com The disqualification of a high school runner because he wore a head band with a Bible verse has triggered legislation about religious expression on sports uniforms. The Georgia High School Association opposes House Bill 870, saying that if it becomes law, the organization would be compelled to break […]
Source: RT When failure to embrace what the scientific establishment currently believes in cases where it can produce no conclusive evidence results in a witch-hunt, the cause of true science […]
Source: Tribune By Shahid Javed Burki The writer is a former caretaker finance minister and served as vice-president at the World Bank The drama surrounding the American election has reached the political stage. There are still nine months left before the country’s citizens cast their votes to elect the successor […]
Source: Sowetan Live New age churches have become healing centres that sell water and oil with promises of curing people of ailments. This was the submission of the commission investigating […]
Source: RNS RESDEN, Germany – Germany’s anti-Islam PEGIDA movement staged rallies in several cities across Europe on Saturday to protest against the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants from […]
Source: RNS (RNS) Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins, who faced termination from her tenured post at the evangelical school for publicly saying Christians and Muslims worship the “same God,” has announced […]
Source: Time The church said Germany can’t “take in all the world’s needy” The German Catholic church has asked for a reduction in the number of refugees entering the country […]
Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran Forty Hadiths or Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad about Compassionate Living The […]
By CARLOTTA GALLFEB. 6, 2016 The funeral of Saeed Jawad Hossini, 29, who was killed in a Taliban suicide attack in Kabul in January. Credit Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images TUNIS — PRESIDENT ASHRAF GHANI of Afghanistan has warned in several recent interviews that unless peace talks with Pakistan […]
FATIMA AL-FIHRI –THE GLOBAL PIONEER IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION By Moin Qazi, PhD (Economics), PhD (English), Nagpur India moinqazi123@gmail.com The Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said: “If anyone travels on a road in search of knowledge, God will cause him to travel on one of the roads of Paradise. The angels will lower their wings […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Pope Francis will hold a historic first meeting with Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russian Orthodox Church, […]
Yemen Houthis, Saudis and jihadis The three-way war in Yemen is not going well IF EVER a war caused pointless death and destruction, it is the one in Yemen. The Houthis, a rebel force, ousted the government from Sana’a, the capital, earlier this year but are nowhere near their aim […]
In Shia Muslims’ holiest site, a new openness to other faiths Dec 5th 2015 CORDIAL encounters between representatives of different creeds are common enough in the Western world, whether the organisers are universities, governments or NGOs. (In the latter case, inter-faith activity is often aimed at building bridges by tackling […]
Epigraph: All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and […]
The government’s new ‘jewellery law’ takes effect on Friday. Photo: Claus Fisker/Scanpix Published: 05 Feb 2016 Beginning Friday, Danish police now have the authority to take cash and valuables from refugees – here’s how it will work in practice. NY Times blasts ‘Denmark’s cruelty toward refugees’ (02 Feb 16) Denmark […]
French riot police at the Calais ferry terminal. Photo: Philippe Huguen/AFP Anti-Islam protestors clash with police in Calais Published: 06 Feb 2016 – http://www.thelocal.fr Around 150 protesters gathered in central Calais carrying signs such as “This is our home,” waving the French flag and singing the French national […]
Cardinal Reinhard Marx said the response to the migrant crisis should not solely be a matter of “charity but also reason.” Photo: DPA Published: 06 Feb 2016 The German Catholic Church called for a reduction in the influx of refugees arriving in Germany, saying the country cannot take in “all […]
Several thousand Pegida supporters turned up in Dresden. Photo: DPA Published: 06 Feb 2016 A march by Germany’s anti-Islamic organisation Pegida drew thousands to the eastern city of Dresden on Saturday on a day that saw rallies across Europe in support of the movement. ‘Germany must take fewer refugees’ – […]
Catastrophic failure of institutions the real culprit, not individual heroes or villains Amanda Taub By the time it became clear to the world that Egypt’s Arab Spring had gone […]
A crowded mataf is seen in the Grand Mosque in Makkah. (AN photo by Ahmad Hashad) ARAB NEWS Published — Sunday 7 February 2016 MADINAH/JEDDAH: Pilgrims and visitors performing tawaf […]