Ted Talk: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment
When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the […]
Why so many nations are suddenly following Trump out of the proposed U.N. migration pact
By Rick Noack December 4, 2018 When President Trump pulled out of discussions of a U.N. migration pact almost exactly one year ago, there was an immediate international […]
Climate Change: Torrid time predicted for Switzerland by 2060
By Luigi Jorio This content was published on December 4, 2018 Over 40°C in the cities, long periods of drought and little snow in winter: in forty years’ […]
Hate crimes in Canada surge 47%, fueled by attacks on Jewish, Muslim and black populations
In February 2017, mourners gather at an arena in Montreal for the funeral of three of the six victims of the massacre at the Grand Mosque of Quebec. (Catherine […]
China commits a disgusting self-own while defending its crackdown on Muslims
Alex Lockie China’s state-run newspaper The Global Times tried to defend the country’s practice of mass detentions of its majority Muslim ethnic minority, the Uighurs. But it committed a […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association donate more than 100 Christmas presents to women and children living in refuge centres
PUBLISHED: 04 December 2018 Liam Coleman Samina Siddiqi and Amatul Hayat with the collection organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Womens Association. Over the past month, Samina Siddiqi from Ilford, as […]
Hundreds of volunteers join Mayor Sadiq Khan to plant 15,000 trees in Hainault
PUBLISHED: 15:00 04 December 2018 Aaron Walawalkar More than 100 Ahmadiyya Muslim worshippers joined a team of more than 500 volunteers – including the Mayor of London – to plant 15,000 trees in Hainault. Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) joined Sadiq Khan and Councillor Jas Athwal, in […]
American Poll Favoring Pluralism
Share of Americans who say: ▪️ “If America is too open to people from around the world, we risk losing our identity as a nation” 𝟐𝟔% ▪️ “America’s openness to […]
Einstein’s ‘God Letter,’ a Viral Missive From 1954
Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times By James Barron Dec. 2, 2018 Think of it: One of the most famous people in the world is panning religion. “The word God is […]
Turkey to build mosque in Caracas upon Venezuela’s request
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Turkey has started working on plans to build a mosque in Caracas after a request from Venezuelan authorities, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said late Monday during […]
American racism is in the open, so is the fight against it
Dec 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby I was having lunch this week with an Arab friend and before long, as expected, the conversation turned to President Donald Trump, […]
A trip to Iran by Jawad Anani
Dec 03,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – JAWAD ANANI Accompanying Taher Al Masri, I travelled on the 23rd of November to Tehran in order to attend the International Islamic Unity Conference which […]
Sir David Attenborough: Climate change ‘our greatest threat’
Source: BBC News By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, Katowice The naturalist Sir David Attenborough has said climate change is humanity’s greatest threat in thousands of years. The broadcaster said it […]
In China, Gene-Edited Babies Are the Latest in a String of Ethical Dilemmas
Source: The New York Times By Sui-Lee Wee and Elsie Chen BEIJING — First it was a proposal to transplant a head to a new body. Then it was the world’s first cloned primates. Now […]
Be celibate or leave the priesthood, pope tells gay priests
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and it would be better for priests who […]
Anger over pork sausages at Germany Islam event
Source: BBC News Germany’s Interior Ministry has said it regrets serving pork sausage at a conference on Islam in Berlin earlier this week. The ministry said the food selection had […]
Sacked vegan claims discrimination in landmark case
Source: BBC News By Clive Coleman A tribunal is to be asked to decide whether veganism is a “philosophical belief” akin to a religion, in a landmark legal action. Jordi […]
Pakistan clerics in blasphemy case to face treason charges
Source: Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani minister says the detained Islamic clerics who disrupted daily life with rallies across Pakistan following the acquittal of a Christian woman in […]
Ukraine: Leader pledges church choice for Orthodox faithful
Source: Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president has promised the country’s Orthodox Christian faithful they will be free to remain part of the Russian Orthodox Church after the […]
How Hanukkah came to America
Source: The Conversation Hanukkah may be the best known Jewish holiday in the United States. But despite its popularity in the U.S., Hanukkah is ranked one of Judaism’s minor festivals, […]