A Wonderful Hadith About Gratitude
Abu Hurairah relates that he heard the Holy Prophet narrate the following: Allah having determined to try a leper, a bald one and a blind one from among the Bani […]
Iranians Return to Friday Prayer Despite Surge in Coronavirus Cases
Source: WSJ By Aresu Eqbali in Tehran and Sune Engel Rasmussen in London Worshipers were asked to perform ablution at home, bring their own prayer mats and wear masks Iranians […]
Pfizer to outsource some drug production, focus on coronavirus vaccine
Source: CNBC Pfizer said on Friday it is in talks to shift more of its medicine production to outside contractors as it prepares for large-scale production of an experimental vaccine […]
The Battle of Jamel: The Best Argument Against Theocracy in Early Islam
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica: “When Muhammad died in 632, ʿĀʾishah was left a childless widow of about 18, although some sources suggest she was older. She remained politically inactive […]
The call to prayer is a prayer for the future, a call to those in times of despair
Source: The Star By Mustafa Farooq “Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar.” The delivery room at the Grey Nuns Hospital in Edmonton is dark, but on May 5, 2015, at 6 a.m., […]
Cambridge council allows mosque to broadcast call to prayer during Ramadan
Source: The Record By Anam Latif The Muslim call to prayer will be heard echoing from the Islamic Centre of Cambridge after council passed a temporary noise exemption bylaw at […]
A Ramadan TV show, hosted by a rabbi, is cementing Jewish-Muslim ties
Source: Arab News Rabbi Marc Schneier is educating Jewish Americans about Islam and Ramadan with a special TV series Founded 31 years ago, Schneier’s Foundation for Ethnic Understanding has offices […]
India’s Hindus on fasting during Ramadan
Source: Arab News By Sanjay Kumar Gesture by a Hindu doctor expresses solidarity amid rising Islamophobia NEW DELH: He wakes up before sunrise for sahoor and abstains from food and […]
Healthy dose of religion
Regularly attending religious services associated with lower risk of deaths of despair, Chan School study says Source: The Harvard Gazette The people who attended religious services at least once a […]
Japan approves experimental drug for treating coronavirus patients
Source: CNN Japan has approved the use of the experimental anti-viral drug remdesivir, for the treatment of coronavirus patients with severe symptoms. Researchers in the US released some good news last week about […]
Pandemic expert says coronavirus could last in the US for 3 years
From CNN’s Adrienne Vogt Science journalist Laurie Garrett has been warning about a pandemic like Covid-19 for decades and predicts the coronavirus pandemic could possibly last for three years. “Each […]
switzerland explained : How the Swiss asylum system works
Embed code press here for video report May 6, 2020 Switzerland boasts of a long humanitarian tradition and in fact deals with relatively more asylum requests than […]
Gilead Sciences in talks with pharma companies in Pakistan, India to start remdesivir production
Source: Dawn US pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences on Tuesday said that it was in talks with drug companies in Pakistan and India to start remdesivir production. Remdesivir is an experimental […]
Ousted vaccine director files whistleblower complaint alleging coronavirus warnings were ignored
By Kaitlan Collins, Jeremy Diamond and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) Dr. Rick Bright, the ousted director of the office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine, formally filed an extensive whistleblower […]
Pfizer’s Coronavirus Vaccine Enters Human Testing in U.S.
Coronavirus Vaccine Enters Human Testing in U.S. Source: WSJ Researchers have begun giving healthy volunteers in the U.S. an experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc. PFE 3.07% and partner […]
Coronavirus: World leaders pledge billions for vaccine fight
Source: BBC More than $8bn (£6.5bn) has been pledged to help develop a coronavirus vaccine and fund research into the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. Some 40 countries and […]
Despite a century’s progress in science, 2020 is looking a lot like 1918.
WASHINGTON (AP) — picture of Spanish Flue In the years between two lethal pandemics, one the misnamed Spanish flu, the other COVID-19, the world learned about viruses, cured various diseases, made effective vaccines, developed instant communications and created elaborate public-health networks. Yet here we are again, face-masked to […]
Scientists Discover Antibody That Blocks Coronavirus From Infecting Cells
Source: MSN By Kashmira Gander Since the coronavirus began infecting people in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year, more than 3.5 million people have been diagnosed with […]
Malaria ‘completely stopped’ by a microbe
Source: BBC By James Gallagher; Health and science correspondent Scientists have discovered a microbe that completely protects mosquitoes from being infected with malaria. The team in Kenya and the UK […]
More than 370 workers at a pork plant in Missouri tested positive for coronavirus. All were asymptomatic
By Hollie Silverman (CNN)373 employees and contract workers at Triumph Foods in Buchanan County, Missouri, have tested positive for coronavirus. All of them were asymptomatic, according to a press release from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. The state of Missouri has reported 8,386 cases and 352 deaths […]