A brief history of Islam in China – including a moment of prominence
Reflections by Wee Kek Koon The religion is believed to have arrived in the 600s, brought in by traders from the Middle East and Central Asia Although Muslims settled in […]
Pfizer wants to expand human trials of coronavirus vaccine to thousands of people by September, CEO says
Source: CNBC KEY POINTS Pfizer plans to test a coronavirus vaccine in thousands of people by September. CEO Albert Bourla said that if a vaccine proves to be safe, the company […]
Canadian Catholic bishop funds research for a safe and efficient coronavirus vaccine
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As countries around the world slowly begin to reduce social distancing restrictions, the need for a vaccine against the COVID-19 disease becomes increasingly urgent. One Canadian […]
NY Fed Says It Will Start Buying ETFs
Source: WSJ By Michael S. Derby Fed’s purchases are part of the central bank’s efforts to restore functioning to the financial markets during the coronavirus pandemic The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday that starting Tuesday one of its emergency market support facilities will begin buying corporate-bond exchange-traded […]
A better world can emerge after coronavirus. Or a much worse one Timothy Garton Ash
Most Europeans support a universal basic income, yet young people doubt democracy’s capacity to deliver change Matteo Salvini at the Chigi Palace in Rome on 23 March. ‘What kind of historical moment will this turn out to be, for Europe and the world?’ Photograph: Fabio Frustaci/EPA The coronavirus crisis seems […]
132,000 descendants of expelled Jews apply for Spanish citizenship
Application deadline passes under law designed to atone for 15th-century ‘historical wrong’ @swajones Wed 2 Oct 2019 A gift shop in the old Jewish quarters of Toledo, where Jews were […]
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, kindness isn’t just a virtue – it may heal the global economy
If businesses want to become more humane as well as productive, corporate leaders should feel obligated to credit every person in the supply chain for setting up their empire The […]
Book Review: Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years
By John Philip Jenkins, who is a professor of history at Baylor University in the United States, and co-director for Baylor’s Program on Historical Studies of Religion in the Institute for […]
The right to worship: Church and state clash over religious services in the coronavirus era
Source: NBC By Mansee Khurana Just this week, the Justice Department got behind a rural Virginia church’s claim that the state improperly discriminated against it by limiting its gatherings. Religious […]
A worker infected 533 others with coronavirus at a factory in Ghana, president says
(CNN) Hundreds of factory workers at a fish processing plant in Ghana have tested positive for the coronavirus, the country’s president Nana Akufo-Addo said. All 533 of them contracted the virus from one worker at the factory in the port city of Tema, the president said in his public address […]
Where Biden would break from Trump on Israel
Biden has made no secret of his opposition to the Trump peace plan. By HERB KEINON MAY 7, 2020 – THE JERUSALEM POST One of the cardinal tenets of American […]
Solomon Molcho: Portugal’s converso messiah
Although they are now forgotten in the minds of most Jews, their impact on conversos in Portugal and exiles from Spain cannot be underestimated. a view of Lisbon By […]
Refutation: Ahmadiyya secretly funded: FIJI SUN.TV
Refutation of allegation that (AMC) Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is secretly funded Dr. H. Koya PAKISTAN – Videos have been viral recently that it is notoriously rumored that international Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has some sort of offshore accounts and are being secretly funded. Umar Mulah a Facebook user challenged the Fiji […]
Death of Iraq’s last princess closes tumultuous chapter in Middle East history
Short Url https://arab.news/z5zch Jonathan Lessware Zaynab Khojji May 10, 2020 Princess Badiya bint Ali, who died aged 100 in London on Saturday, was the aunt of King Faisal II […]
Saudi Arabia to host Yemen donor conference on June 2
Arab News Monday . May 11, 2020 The Kingdom’s hosting of the conference is an extension of its humanitarian contributions to Yemen and elsewhere in the world RIYADH: Saudi Arabia […]
New York Times: How Pandemics End
Source: New York Times An infectious outbreak can conclude in more ways than one, historians say. But for whom does it end, and who gets to decide? When will the […]
‘The last generation’: How occupation is driving Christians out of Palestine
Peter Oborne 24 December 2019 Pilgrims flock to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas, but Palestinian Christians fear for the survival of their own community in the land of Jesus’s birth One […]
A Mistake Every Ahmadi Child In Pakistan Makes
Source: Naya Daur By Raheel Ali Raheel Ali writes about being an Ahmadi in Pakistan, a tale as old as time, a tale of hope and despair and the longing […]
If we want more tolerance, children need to read stories of world views outside of their own
We all fall for a good story. But why are we still finding that some narratives take precedence over others? If we want more tolerance, children need to read stories of world views outside of their own I wrote a children’s book about inspiring Muslim women to challenge stereotypes and […]
Government to test remdesivir with Lilly drug in COVID-19 patients
Source: Market Watch Government to test remdesivir with Lilly drug in COVID-19 patients The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) said Friday it is testing Gilead Sciences Inc.’s (GILD) […]