Pakistan eases visa rules to ‘heaven for tourists’
Jan 25, 2019 By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has loosened travel restrictions in the hope of reviving tourism by offering visas on arrival to visitors from 50 countries […]
The Western world may no longer underestimate Isis, but we’ve failed to learn the most important lessons from its rise and fall
Looking to Venezuela, it’s clear the US, UK and allied governments have learned nothing from their disastrous actions in the Middle East and North Africa over the past 20 years […]
‘Absolutely out of control’: Cliff Sims’s book depicts life in Trump’s White House
Source: The Washington Post By Philip Rucker January 21 President Trump watched on television, increasingly angry as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan criticized his handling of the deadly white supremacist rally […]
Supreme Court allows Trump restrictions on transgender troops in military to go into effect as legal battle continues
Source: The Washington Post By Robert Barnes and Dan Lamothe January 22 The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Trump’s broad restrictions on transgender people serving in the military to go into […]
Trump voters now blame him for the government shutdown
Source: The Washington Post By Matt Viser MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. — Two years ago, Jeff Daudert was fed up with politics. He wanted to shake up the status quo. He didn’t mind […]
A tale of two sanctuary churches: Congregants in Ohio and the Netherlands find ‘instant connection’
Source: PRI By Tania Karas For the past 15 months, a Mennonite church in Columbus, Ohio, has offered sanctuary to an undocumented immigrant mother from Mexico who sought to avoid deportation. […]
Threatened with an end to Shariah divorce, Egypt’s imams work to save marriages
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter and Amr El-Tohamy CAIRO (RNS) – Egypt’s skyrocketing divorce rate has spurred a debate among Muslim religious leaders and government officials about how […]
Iran arrested 7,000 in crackdown on dissent during 2018 – Amnesty
Source: BBC News Amnesty International says Iran arrested 7,000 people last year in a “shameless campaign of repression”. Those swept up by the crackdown included protesters, students, lawyers, journalists, environmental […]
Governor convicted of blasphemy freed from Indonesian prison
Source: Associated Press By STEPHEN WRIGHT and NINIEK KARMINI JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A polarizing Christian politician whose campaign comments ignited the largest protests in years in Muslim-majority Indonesia was […]
Does Duterte’s wrath against the Catholic Church have no limit?
Source: PRI By Patrick Winn Rodrigo Duterte delights in shock value. He’s threatened to slap UN officials. He once told former US President Barack Obama to “go to hell.” As for his signature policy, […]
D.C. attorney general proposes making clergy ‘mandated reporters’ of abuse
Source: Washington Post Fenit Nirappil and Michelle Boorstein D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine is proposing legislation to add clergy to the list of “mandatory reporters” who must tell authorities about suspected […]
An Azerbaijani Artist Wrote The Quran On Silk And It Turned Out To Be Amazing
Source: Trending.pk Tunzale Memmedzade has done what no one has ever done. The 33-year-old decorative artist from Azerbaijan has written the complete Quran on pages made out of thin black silk. […]
Black Muslims account for a fifth of all U.S. Muslims, and about half are converts to Islam
Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED AND JEFF DIAMANT Even in the early 20th century, when Islam had little presence in most parts of the United States, the religion had a foothold in […]
Cast in Russia as ‘enemy within’, Jehovah’s Witnesses see Soviet history replay
Source: Reuters BY Andrew Osborn ORYOL, Russia (Reuters) – The first Jehovah’s Witness detained for extremism in Russia has likened the authorities’ behavior to that of Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union ahead […]
Belize: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community launches new initiatives
By Dalila Ical The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Belize is hosting three events over the week including a basketball competition, a free medical clinic and launching its Humanity First NGO. […]
Belize: Canadian delegation participates in annual Muslim Convention
By Dalila Ical Posted on 16 hours ago The Canadian Delegation is being led by Lal Khan Malik, the president of that country’s Ahmadiyya’s Muslim Jama’at. Malik spoke about the […]
Greek Parliament ratifies agreement changing Macedonia’s name
ASSOCIATED PRESS ATHENS Published Greek parliament ratified late Friday the agreement changing Macedonia’s name to North Macedonia. The ratification means a deal to normalize relations with Macedonia, under which Greece’s […]
Muhammad Ali’s home to be turned into summer school for Muslim youth
Source: Daily Sabah BY CEYDA KARAASLAN Ali’s four-bedroom house in Berrian Springs was a place where the legendary boxer secluded himself from time to time after moving to L.A. and […]
U.S. White House / President Trump And Congress Leaders Reach Short-Term Deal to End Shutdown
By Associated Press Updated: January 25, 2019 2:48 PM ET (WASHINGTON) — Yielding to mounting pressure and growing disruption, President Donald Trump and congressional leaders on Friday reached a short-term […]