Belgium Bans Religious Slaughtering Practices, Drawing Praise and Protest
BY MILAN SCHREUER Source: MSN BRUSSELS — A Belgian ban on the Muslim and Jewish ways of ritually slaughtering animals went into effect on New Year’s Day, part of a […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Victoria condemns all forms of racism
6 January 2019 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Victoria is concerned about the recent rise of far-right rallies targeting ethnic minorities in Melbourne’s St Kilda Beach which turned violent and […]
Ghana: Veep calls for tolerance among religious groups
The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has called for tolerance among the various religious groups in the country. He said the use of violence in settling religious differences was counter-productive and […]
Swiss “Woman’s Bible” offers feminist theology for #metoo moment
AFP news@thelocal.ch @thelocalswitzer 27 November 2018 Geneva theology professors Elisabeth Parmentier (L) and Lauriane Savoy pose under the reformation wall in Geneva with a edition of “A Women’s Bible”. Photo: […]
Homosexuality at fault for sex abuse not Catholic Church, says German cardinal
Source: DPA/The Local; news@thelocal.de; @thelocalgermany 4 January 2019 One of the most senior German figures in the Catholic Church has controversially denied that sexual abuse was a problem in the […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth cleaning many German cities after the New Year Eve celebrations
German Newspapers in many cities are full of reports of how the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth had cleaned their cities after the New Year’s Eve festivals. Here are just some of […]
Saudi lady is trapped at Bangkok airport after attempting to flee household amid fears they might kill her
By Theweeklyn – January 7, 2019 A Saudi lady who’s being held in Bangkok after attempting to flee her abusive household has instructed of her terror that she will likely […]
Akhil Bhartiya Muslim Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in Pune: Organisers should not have bowed before protestors, says Ahmadiyya poet whose session was cancelled
January 6, 2019 PUNE Basharat Ahmed is an author who belongs to the Ahmadiyya Muslim jamaat was looking forward to participate in the 12th Akhil Bhartiya Muslim Marathi Sahitya […]
India’s top court to name panel to weigh demand for temple on disputed site
This content was published on January 4, 2019 By Suchitra Mohanty and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court will name a panel on Thursday to hear arguments […]
Who foots the bill? – Cameroon’s Biya: Why the Swiss won’t stop his Geneva stays
By Julia Crawford with input from Markus Spoerndli Jan 4, 2019 – 17:00 Reports in 2018 that alleged Cameroon’s president Paul Biya runs his country from a Geneva hotel raise […]
Joel Osteen’s Audio: Focusing on God’s approval, rather than people’s approval for our destiny
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times You can’t stop life from happening to you, but you can choose how you respond. At the […]
Egypt’s Sisi opens mega-mosque and Middle East’s largest cathedral in New Capital
CAIRO (Reuters) – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated Egypt’s largest church and mosque in the New Administrative Capital on Sunday, the eve of Coptic Christmas, in a message of […]
Sources or Criteria for Interpretation of the Holy Quran
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I will describe here the four main sources, as I understand them, under the four headings: 1. Commentary […]
Britain and Islam – the real special relationship
This country is fully Quran-compliant. And it has been since the Elizabethan era Ed Husain In all the agonising about Islamism, and what to do about it, it would be […]
Beyond religious bigotry and secular freedom
Source: The News By Sher Ali Tareen, who is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College in the U.S. He received his PhD from Duke University. stareen@fandm.edu […]
On the follies and failures of secular convictions-I
Sher Ali Tareen December 30, 2018 1 Comment Furthering the conversation around the interaction of religion, secular power, and minority suffering in Pakistan and beyond My mid-September essay in […]
On the follies and failures of secular convictions-II
Sher Ali Tareen January 6, 2019 The sovereign separation of religion and politics is the hallmark of a secular political theology Ali Usman Qasmi’s response to my essay, also […]
Pakistan Declares Hindu Temple As National Heritage, Approves Hindu Marriage Bill
The Logical Indian Crew January 4th, 2019 In a welcoming gesture, the provincial Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in northwest Pakistan has declared ancient Hindu religious site of Panj Tirath as a […]
The History of the Qur’anic Text: From Revelation to Compilation
Epigraph: Indeed, We (Allah) Ourself have sent down this Quran, and most surely We will be its Guardian. (Al Quran 15:9/10) The History of the Qur’anic Text: From Revelation to Compilation […]
Vatican: Argentine bishop at Holy See under investigation
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and DEBORA REY BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Vatican has confirmed that an Argentine bishop, who resigned suddenly in 2017 for stated health […]