Source: Huffington Post The Muslim congresswoman-elect will be the first hijab-wearing member of the House. By Alanna Vagianos As a hijab-wearing, Somali-American refugee, Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar of Minnesota knows just […]
Reuters International Nov 28, 2018 – By Saad Sayeed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday his government and the military want to mend ties […]
By Reuters – Nov 28,2018 – JORDAN TIMES US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media after a closed briefing for senators about the latest developments related to […]
Pompeo, Mattis urge maintaining Saudi military support By AFP – Nov 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES WASHINGTON — Two top officials from the administration of President Donald Trump sought on […]
Source: BBC News The Netherlands’ state-run rail company NS has agreed to set up a commission to compensate Holocaust survivors and their relatives for transporting Jews to a Nazi transit […]
Source: Bloomberg By Katarina Hoije Ibrahim Kontao is busily signing checks as men and women line up outside his air-conditioned office in the Malian capital, Bamako, to ask him for donations […]
I’ve had difficult conversations with family members about Christian faith, traditional religion and imperialism, and through them I’m often reminded that the strong religious arm of colonialism is still very […]
Source: Reuters By Hereward Holland NAIROBI (Reuters) – Last year Mukhtar Robow had a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head. Now the former Islamist al Shabaab militant has downed […]
Source: Reuters By Saad Sayeed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday his government and the military want to mend ties with arch-foe India, in the […]
Citizens seemed aware of the difference Saudi aid might make to them, yet they took to the streets in droves anyway Simon Speakman Cordall The Independent Voices Against rumours of […]
Source: Religion News Service By Michele Chabin JERUSALEM (RNS) – A popular meme on social media here shows an illustration of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus in Bethlehem. “Why […]
Source: Reuters By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China will retaliate “in proportion” if the United States sanctions its top official in the restive region of Xinjiang over alleged human […]
Source: The Guardian Indian authorities say they have no plans to recover the body of John Allen Chau, an American missionary who was killed by members of an isolated tribe on […]
Source: The Washington Post By Justin Jouvenal The teens had set out from their Sterling mosque last year for a pre-dawn meal, a common way to celebrate the Ramadan holiday. But […]
Source: Orlando Sentinel By Derryck Green Teachers should absolutely discuss religion with their students. A comprehensive education necessarily includes learning and discussing issues of faith. This is not an easy […]
Source: Orlando Sentinel BY Rachel Laser An elementary schoolteacher walks around her classroom in Louisiana asking each of her young students what they want to pray for, they bow their […]
Source: Houston Chronicle By Lindsay Peyton, CORRESPONDENT When India’s external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj requested a global celebration of the birthday of Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, […]
Source: CNN Two days after landing on Mars, the NASA InSight lander is powered up, its solar arrays are working and it’s already sending back selfies. NASA pulled off its eighth landing of a […]
Source: CNN By Bianca Britton, CNN (CNN)The HIV epidemic in Europe is still growing at an alarming rate, particularly in Eastern Europe, according to a new report. The number […]
Source: BBC News A Chinese scientist who claims to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies has defended his work. Speaking at a genome summit in Hong Kong, He […]