Epigraph: And you shall assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants and monks and because they are not proud. (Al Quran 5:82/83) Source: Pew Research Center At least half of Catholics […]
Source: Pew Research Center The new, 116th Congress includes the first two Muslim women ever to serve in the House of Representatives, and is, overall, slightly more religiously diverse than […]
(RNS) — This year saw wave after wave of new revelations about the extent of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis. It saw deadly hate crimes, the explosion of state-sponsored persecution against China’s Uighur Muslims, major #MeToo moments in a slew of congregations and faith communities, critical milestones for religious minorities […]
By Mike Ghouse, Speaker, Thinker, Writer, Pluralist, Socialist and Interfaith Speaker Congratulations to Judge Dhanidina, a Muslim Judge. As an American Muslim, I am proud of this appointment, and indeed, […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Roxli Doss’ parents are convinced a miracle healed their daughter, who was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. The parents of an 11-year-old Texas […]
Source: Patheos One of my life-long dreams came true at the Sunni-Shia Unity Conference to launch efforts to promote Intra-Faith dialogue on December 15, when a group of dedicated local […]
Source: The Review of Religions – March 2013 Address by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmadaba, Khalifatul Masih V, Head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, at the Bait-ur-Rasheed Mosque in Hamburg, […]
Kamal Alam As Khan has previously described Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as one of his political heroes, it remains to be seen how the two countries will further […]
Dawn.com Updated January 03, 2019 PM Imran Khan and his delegation visited the mausoleum of great Sufi saint Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi. The premier laid floral wreath on Rumi’s grave and […]
Afua Hirsch Sajid Javid’s rhetoric on refugees has less to do with reason than with appeasing anti-immigrant feeling Thu 3 Jan 2019 A lot of us have spent the […]
Satbir Singh The arbitrary cruelty of the ‘hostile environment’ stretches beyond any one community. Brexit will only make it worse Thu 3 Jan 2019 Tasfin came to the UK in […]
Rawan Radwan January 03, 2019 Four cities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East will be celebrated for their historical significance JEDDAH: Three cities in Africa, Asia and […]
Arab News January 03, 2019 Jamal Khashoggi was killed on Oct. 2 in the Saudi consulate in Turkey There are 11 people accused over their involvement in the […]
Jan 02,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – MICHAEL JANSEN The Astana axis, comprised of Russia, Iran and Turkey, has gained increasing importance over the past two years, as Damascus, with the […]
Jan 02,2019 -JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL One of the reasons offered by US President Donald Trump for ordering the withdrawal of US troops from the north of Syria was his conviction […]
Friends of Goldstone told me that he had been painfully pressured to recant, and was in a state of great personal distress Robert Fisk Beirut @indyvoices The Independent Voices When […]
Source: The Local After four young asylum seekers reportedly attacked pedestrians at random in Amberg in northern Bavaria, far-right “neighbourhood defence groups” have started patrolling the streets of the town, according to German media reports. On Saturday evening the four suspects allegedly physically assaulted 12 random people while under the […]
Source: The Local A man who injured five people in an apparent xenophobic attack on New Year’s Eve was mentally ill. He told police that the many foreigners in Germany was ‘a problem he wanted to solve’. DPA reported early on Wednesday that the man had previously been admitted to […]
Source: The Washington Post By Rick Noack December 28, 2018 BERLIN — When Germans file their annual tax returns, religion matters a great deal. If you’re Catholic, tax authorities will likely […]
Source: Associated Press By TIM SULLIVAN KURAVILANGAD, India (AP) — The stories spill out in the sitting rooms of Catholic convents, where portraits of Jesus keep watch and fans spin […]