Source: The Guardian BY Sam Jones in Madrid The UK’s decision to leave the European Union has fuelled an 80-fold increase in the number of British Sephardic Jews seeking Portuguese […]
Source: The Guardian Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The Catholic church should accept married men for ordination in an effort to prevent the extinction of priests in Ireland, a prominent clergyman […]
Source: MSN 1863: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect President Abraham Lincoln signs the final Emancipation Proclamation, which ends slavery in the rebelling states. Check out additional 11 things that happened […]
Happy New Year! Let’s make this our year, Canada! pic.twitter.com/ihzkDiERZW — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) December 31, 2016 Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MP (born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian […]
Through diplomacy @POTUS:Shut down Iran’s nuclear weapons program ✓Opened a new chapter with the people of Cuba ✓https://t.co/UldBhTwM1T — The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 31, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Sermon Delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad at Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. After reciting THANA, TAWUZ and Surah Fatiha Hazoor-e-Anwar(aba) Said: According to the Gregorian Calender, the New Year will insha’Allah start after two days. Worldly people pass these days in worldly pleasures, thus ending the previous year […]
Source: Independent By Samuel Osborne @SamuelOsborne93 Man said he launched campaign after finding some ‘female relatives were facing injustice at the hands of their families’ A Saudi man has been jailed […]
MOHA ENNAJI Moha Ennaji is President of the South North Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Migration Studies in Morocco and Professor of Cultural Studies at Fez University. His most recent books include New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe and Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe. FEZ […]
JEFF RAIKES Jeff Raikes is Co-founder of the Raikes Foundation, former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and, previously, President of Microsoft Business Division. He is a board member of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). SEATTLE – Picture a small farm under a […]
TUNIS – The recent terror attack on Berlin’s Christmas market – which killed 12 and injured more than 50 – cast a pall over this year’s holiday celebrations across Europe. Viewed from Tunis, where I happened to be during the fallout, the attack has also had a major, albeit different, […]
STEPHEN GROFF Stephen Groff is the Asian Development Bank’s vice-president for East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. MANILA – Imagine that you are a farmer. Your crops are withering as weather patterns become more volatile, your well water is too salty to drink, and rice is too expensive […]
(This is one of the ten most read articles in 2016 of the Project Syndicate) https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/multiculturalism-versus-french-burkini-ban-by-peter-singer-2016-09 MELBOURNE – My parents came to Australia as refugees, fleeing Nazi persecution after Hitler annexed Austria. They arrived in a country eager to assimilate immigrants into its dominant Anglo-Irish culture. When my parents spoke […]
Cultured and consensual, the Portuguese politician has had the perfect preparation for the United Nations’ top job Antonio Guterres will take over on 1 January. Photograph: Mario Cruz/EPA Angelique Chrisafis andJulian Borger Sunday 1 January 2017 When António Guterres resigned halfway through his second term as Portuguese prime minister in […]
Reuters International JAN 1, 2017 An injured woman is carried to an ambulance from a nightclub where a gun attack took place during a New Year party in Istanbul, Turkey, January 1, 2017. Murat Ergin/Ihlas News Agency via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Humeyra Pamuk and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) – […]
VERIFICATION By Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi DEC 21, 2016 Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California: the tech giant has announced plans to limit the spread of fake news, but whether it’ll succeed remains to be seen. (Keystone) Swiss and European researchers are working on algorithms to detect misinformation circulating […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for photographs after the television recording of her annual New Year’s speech at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, December 30, 2016. REUTERS/Markus Schreiber/Pool (reuters_tickers) By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) – Islamist terrorism is the biggest test facing Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday in […]
On arrival in his cell, the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Fahmy discovered that he was imprisoned with men whom he had interviewed only a few months earlier as members of the Morsi government Robert Fisk @indyvoice To interview a jihadi is one thing, to live among jihadis quite another. To share their prison […]
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Wishing a happy and a prosperous new year 2017 to all our readers from the whole of our Editorial […]
Source: One India By: Vicky Nanjappa Islamic seminaries have said that triple talaq over the phone is valid. The fatwa also states that triple talaq can be pronounced through emails […]
ANGIER, Morocco — Behind a tall perimeter wall, studded with surveillance cameras and guarded by Moroccan soldiers, a sprawling new palace for King Salman of Saudi Arabia rose on the Atlantic coast here last summer. y NICHOLAS KULISH and MARK MAZZETTIDEC. 27, 2016 Even as the Saudi government canceled a quarter of […]