His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan with Pope Francis in Vatican It is critical to take every opportunity to show a united front against all forms of intolerance. Pope Francis has reached out to faith leaders of all religions to […]
Dawn: Religion is big business. Just how big? A new study, published Wednesday by a father-daughter researcher team, says religion is bigger than Facebook, Google and Apple — combined. The article in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion said that the annual revenues of faith-based enterprises — not just […]
Police have made an arrest in attack, which comes 15 years after a 9/11 revenge arson on a Hindu temple By Dave Beatty, CBC News Posted: Sep 15, 2016 7:59 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 15, 2016 4:46 PM ET An arson Wednesday night at the Ibrahim Jame Mosque on King Street East was […]
Source: Associated Press By TERRY SPENCER FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — An ex-convict who posted anti-Islamic rants online confessed to setting fire to a mosque that the Orlando nightclub shooter […]
Source: Time By Elizabeth Dias Donald Trump’s son Eric was glowing when he sat down at a Cleveland restaurant next to Orlando pastor Paula White. “Your prayer did it, Paula,” Eric told her. The younger Trump’s teleprompter had broken the night before as he prepared to address the Republican National Convention. […]
Source: NPR By SCOTT DETROW Donald Trump is lashing out against an African-American pastor who interrupted him Wednesday to chide him for campaigning in her Flint, Mich., church. “Something was up,” […]
Source: JTA NEW YORK (JTA) — Rachel “Ruchie” Freier of Brooklyn was elected a Civil Court judge in New York state, reportedly a first for a Hasidic woman in the […]
Source: BBC The Bank of England has left its main interest rate at 0.25% but says another cut is still a possibility. The decision of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) […]
Source: Motto By Jonathan Levi These days, we’re inundated with more information than ever before. Blog posts, news articles and a never-ending stream of books “you just have to read!” […]
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin In July, the Utah Department of Health was alerted to a person diagnosed with theZika virus despite not traveling to a place with Zika or having sexual contact with a person who had. The person had, however, cared for an elderly male family contact who had […]
By PERVEZ HOODBHOY PAKISTAN’S Foreign Office says Pakistan is “deeply saddened” by the execution in Bangladesh last week of Mir Quasem Ali. Mir Quasem was found guilty in 2014 by a Bangladeshi court of torture, multiple murders and arson. He was sentenced to death after what Pakistan describes as “a flawed […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ian Bateson Freelance Journalist LVIV, Ukraine ― Ernes and Alime Mambetov have been living with their 2-year-old son in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for a […]
The Muslim Times’ Collection on Islam’s Condemnation of Terrorismhttp://t.co/NFrzgQsZHe pic.twitter.com/Yv7kV04kZF — The Muslim Times (@The_MuslimTimes) September 17, 2014 Source: One India By: Vicky Nanjappa Published: Thursday, September 15, 2016, 11:51 […]
NYTimes.com OTTAWA — The crowd was enthusiastic, and Justin Trudeau was working it. He seemed to leave no hand unshaken in the crush of the convention hall as light perspiration gathered on his forehead. Even on what could have been hostile turf, the ebullience was palpable. That’s how it goes […]
Source: The New York Times BY MOHAMMAD JAVAD ZARIF, FOREIGN MINISTER OF IRAN Tehran — Public relations firms with no qualms about taking tainted petrodollars are experiencing a bonanza. Their latest […]
Source: BBC Indonesia’s highest Islamic authority has said it is a sin for people to deliberately burn forests to clear the land for growing crops. Illegal slash-and-burn farming has devastated […]
Source: The Guardian By Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome Pope Francis has issued a remarkable endorsement of major changes in the way priests approach Catholics who are divorced and remarried, in a […]
Source: RNS By Kirkland An (RNS) In the midst of a bitter presidential campaign, a group of 13 evangelical leaders has founded an organization advocating a Christian and civil approach […]
Source: myAJC By Meris Lutz – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A protest by a small but strident group of about a dozen militia members, some armed, ended quietly Tuesday, after several […]
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail Hauslohner It was late afternoon on Monday when the Great Falls family of five piled into their minivan and headed for the Virginia countryside […]