100 Years Ago… – A Beloved Remembered
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad a.s. In Al Hakam (Urdu), 21-28 May 1918, we found an historic article written by the brother-in-law of Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, Hazrat Mir Muhammad […]
Pope extends mandate of Malta envoy, sidelining critic
Source: Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has extended the mandate of his envoy to the Knights of Malta lay religious order to oversee reforms, further sidelining Francis’ […]
Top Iraqi cleric warns of ‘foreign influence’ in elections
Source: Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top Shiite cleric has warned that “foreign influence” in the upcoming national elections could undermine the country’s ability to carry out a free […]
DR Congo crisis: Why a trainee nun was shot dead at church
Source: BBC News The BBC’s Africa editor Fergal Keane reports on how the Catholic Church has become the main opposition in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. By the time […]
Vatican declines to rule on German dispute over Communion
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican declined Thursday to rule on a dispute among German bishops over whether non-Catholic spouses can receive Communion, asking […]
ISIS recruiter’s wife found guilty of refusing to stand for a judge in court
Source: News.com MOUTIA Elzahed — wife of a terrorist recruiter — has given the Islamic State salute after becoming the first person in NSW to be found guilty of refusing […]
Hindus in India are converting to Buddhism to protest treatment of lower castes
Source: RNS By Jason Overdorf NEW DELHI, India (RNS) — Four survivors of a brutal 2016 beating at the hands of India’s so-called cow protectors converted to Buddhism this week in […]
Alarm Grows In France Over Anti-Semitic Violence
Source: NPR By ELEANOR BEARDSLEY In late March, thousands of people took to the streets of Paris to protest the murder of an elderly woman whose killers may have been motivated by […]
Palestinian leader Abbas offers apology for remarks on Jews
Source: Reuters BY Stephen Farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday offered an apology after he was accused of anti-Semitism for suggesting that historic persecution of European […]
The Quakers are right. We don’t need God
Source: The Guardian By Simon Jenkins The group is considering dropping God from its meetings guidance as it makes some feel uncomfortable. This is the new religiosity The Quakers are […]
Muslims Recoil at a French Proposal to Change the Quran
Source: The Atlantic BY KARINA PISER A manifesto published in the French daily Le Parisien on April 21—signed by some 300 prominent intellectuals and politicians, including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Manuel […]
There’s More to Being Jewish Than Fighting Anti-Semitism
Source: The Atlantic BY EMMA GREEN A Jewish journalist lives in the big city. He is largely secular and proudly defies religious traditions; he runs easily with his generation’s cohort […]
Kuala Lumpur-Singapore named busiest international air route
Source: BBC News The air route linking Singapore and the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur has become the busiest in the world, research shows. Planes made 30,537 trips between the two […]
This is what a Sikh child faces in America
Source: CNN By Winty Singh (CNN)Two decades ago, when I was in the second grade, a substitute teacher asked me to stand up in front of my class and talk […]
AP review: Judges split along party lines on travel ban
Source: Associated Press By SUDHIN THANAWALA SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump has called courts unfair and political and repeatedly assailed the 9th Circuit, the U.S. court system’s westernmost division, where some of his key immigration policies have stalled. Other observers describe America’s judges as conservative or liberal, implying […]
The Scandal Tearing Apart America’s Largest Protestant Denomination
Source: The Atlantic By JONATHAN MERRITT Over the past 20 years, the Southern Baptist Convention has weathered an onslaught of controversies, from renaming the denomination to repudiating the Confederate flag. But […]
New executive order aims to protect religious liberty from government overreach
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) — President Trump plans to unveil a new initiative that aims to give faith groups a stronger voice within the federal government and serve […]
Book Review: The Invention of the Jewish People
By Shlomo Sand (Author), Yael Lotan (Translator) See all 6 formats and editions Kindle $15.77 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from $14.35 29 Used from $14.35 14 New from […]
National Assembly of Pakistan passes resolution to rename QAU’s Abdus Salam Centre to al-Khazini Department
Source: Dawn By Nadir Guramani The National Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution to change the name of the National Centre for Physics at the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) from the […]
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road (Encounters with Asia)
by Johan Elverskog: In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also […]