In Arab Nation, Christians, Buddhists and Jews Emerge to Worship
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Asa Fitch Jan. 27, 2019 8:00 a.m. ET DUBAI—Every Friday, on the fourth floor of a hotel conference center in this Arab business hub, […]
Quebec government asks Montreal school boards if information on staffers wearing religious symbols exists
Source: The Globe and Mail BY RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESS The Quebec government has asked several school boards in the Montreal region if they have a count of teachers who […]
Pakistan upholds acquittal of woman in blasphemy case
Source: Associated Press By KATHY GANNON ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s top court on Tuesday upheld its acquittal of a Christian woman who spent eight years on death row after being […]
It’s Hilarious That the Pope Called Mary the “First Influencer,” but It’s Also Totally Something He Would Do
Source: Slate By RUTH GRAHAM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Thom Masat / Unsplash, Grant Whitty/Unsplash, Thomas Quaritsch/Unsplash, and Peter Paul Rubens/Wikipedia. This past weekend, Pope Francis called the […]
Islam and the State: A Counter Narrative
Source: Author’s website (Political Issues) By Javed Ahmad Ghamidi (Tr. by:Dr. Shehzad Saleem) The situation which has been created today for Islam and Muslims in the whole world by certain […]
American Nobel Laureate Knew About Chinese Scientist Gene-Editing Babies, But Did Not Report Him, Emails Show
Source: Time By CANDICE CHOI AND MARILYNN MARCHIONE Long before the claim of the world’s first gene-edited babies became public, Chinese researcher He Jiankui shared the news with a U.S. Nobel laureate who […]
Sarah Sanders: Donald Trump Is President Because God Wanted Him There
Source: Huffington Post By Rebecca Shapiro White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she believed God wanted Donald Trump to become president in an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network Wednesday. “I think God […]
A Former Pastor Of Trump’s Church Says He Never Saw Him There
Source: Huffington Post BY Sara Boboltz President Donald Trump gave Bible literacy legislation a shout-out on Monday with a tweet praising states that are “starting to make a turn back” to an […]
Church of England plan for welcoming trans people under fire
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent More than 2,000 clergy and lay members of the Church of England have signed a letter calling on bishops to withdraw or […]
Canada looks to ensure safety of Christian acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan
Source: The Star OTTAWA—Canada’s foreign ministry says it is prepared to do everything it can to ensure the safety of a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy by Pakistan’s top court. […]
Israel leader scorned for wooing Holocaust-distorting allies
Source: Associated Press BY Aron Heller JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warm welcome to Lithuania’s prime minister marks his latest embrace of an eastern European leader who […]
Philippines urges calm after grenade attack on mosque kills two
Source: Reuters MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine authorities called for calm on Wednesday after a grenade attack on a mosque in a mainly Christian southern province killed two people, just three […]
How to have productive disagreements about politics and religion
Source: The Conversation By Larisa Heiphetz In the current polarized climate, it’s easy to find yourself in the midst of a political disagreement that morphs into a religious argument. People’s […]
Teaching the Bible in Public Schools Is a Bad Idea—For Christians
Source: The Atlantic BY Jonathan Merritt Shortly after Fox & Friends aired a segment about proposed legislation to incorporate Bible classes into public schools on Monday morning, President Donald Trump cheered these […]
Saudi prince’s anti-corruption sweep ends with $106B netted
By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRIAYA BATRAWY, Associated Press RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA — Saudi Arabia’s unprecedented anti-corruption sweep that saw top princes, businessmen, military officers and officials detained at the Ritz-Carlton hotel has […]
Imran Khan building multi-million dollar Oxford-style Namal Knowledge City
MIANWALI: In pursuance of his dream of spreading education specially to the downtrodden segments of the society, Prime Minister Imran Khan is building multi-million dollar Oxford-style ‘Namal Knowledge City’ […]
PM Imran Khan directs FBR to go after big tax evaders, non-filers
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday directed Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to focus on tax recovery from the big tax evaders and bring the non-filers into the tax […]
Celibacy isn’t the cause of the church sex-abuse crisis; the priesthood is
By Garry Wills January 03, 2019 Year after year, we seem to reach new depths of priestly depravity in the Catholic church’s “ministry” to children in its charge. After […]
Secret US intel team working for UAE spied on rivals’ iPhones, report reveals
REUTERS WASHINGTON A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked into the iPhones of activists, diplomats and rival foreign leaders with the […]
How Can the Muslims Stop Worshiping the Jinn?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There is a very interesting dialogue recorded in Surah Saba in the holy Quran that will happen between […]