A prayer for secularism
Oct 15,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – ALI KASSAY The other day I indulged in the long-delayed pleasure of seeing the film “Darkest Hour”, in which Gary Oldman ably played the […]
Jordan, Syria to reopen border today
By JT – Oct 15,2018 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Minister of State for Media Affairs and Government Spokesperson Jumana Ghunaimat on Sunday announced that the Jaber/Nasib border crossing between […]
Robot soldiers and ‘enhanced’ humans will fight future wars, defence experts say
Ministry of Defence report suggests technological advances will see new frontiers for warfare opening up in space and cyberspace Josh GabbatissScience Correspondent @josh_gabbatiss Future warfare will likely be conducted by […]
Saudi Arabia’s missing princes
By Reda El Mawy; BBC World Service 15 August 2017 The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Note: This article is from last year, however, in view of the ‘Khashoggi affair’ may […]
Escaping Pakistani persecution, Ahmadi activist finds refuge — and purpose — in US
August 1, 2017 Members of the Ahmadi Muslim community hold the names of victims as they stand over their graves in Chenab Nagar, located in Punjab’s Chiniot District, about 125 […]
Khashoggi Case Raises Tensions Between Saudi Prince and Turkish President
Source: The New York Times By David D. Kirkpatrick and Ben Hubbard ANKARA, Turkey — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has long cast himself as a champion of the Arab Spring […]
Poland vetoes EU rights report not citing Christians, Jews
Source: Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government says it is vetoing the adoption of an annual report on the European Union’s guiding civil rights document because it did […]
Celebrity Jewish-Arab wedding stirs mixed feelings in Israel
Source: Reuters JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A surprise celebrity wedding bridging Israel’s Jewish-Muslim divide drew mixed public reaction on Thursday in a country where such inter-marriage is extremely rare. Wednesday’s nuptials […]
Islamists rally in Pakistan for death sentence for Christian
Source: Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Hundreds of supporters from an extremist Islamist party have rallied in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore to pressure judges to uphold a death […]
Egypt sentences 17 to death for Coptic Christian church attacks
Source: BBC News Seventeen people have been sentenced to death by an Egyptian military court over their involvement in bomb attacks on Coptic Christian churches. A further 19 people were […]
IS reverting to insurgency tactics after losing caliphate
Source: Associated Press By BASSEM MROUE BEIRUT (AP) — After being nearly defeated on the battlefields of its would-be caliphate, the Islamic State group has reverted to what it was […]
Salvadoran priest Óscar Romero to be declared saint by Pope Francis
Source: The Guardian Óscar Romero, the Salvadoran priest who championed social justice for the poor and dispossessed, will be proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis in a canonisation ceremony in Rome on […]
Ukraine wins approval for historic split from Russian church
Source: Reuters BY Pavel Polityuk, Yesim Dikmen KIEV/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Ukraine secured approval on Thursday to establish an independent church in what Kiev says is a vital step against Russian meddling […]
China finally admits it is building a new archipelago of concentration camps. Will the world respond?
Source: The Washington Post By Editorial Board October 11 WHEN REPORTS began filtering out of China last year about a massive indoctrination and internment drive against ethnic Muslim Uighurs in the […]
The Catholic Church’s Biggest Crisis Since the Reformation
Source: Foreign Affairs By Massimo Faggioli, who is a Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University and the author of Catholicism and Citizenship: Political Cultures of the Church in the […]
My son’s death proves the harm of weaponizing belief
Source: CNN By Dennis Shepard (CNN)This year marks the 20th year since the death of my son, Matt Shepard, in Laramie, Wyoming. His murder at the age of 21 sparked […]
What Óscar Romero’s Canonization Says About Pope Francis
Source: The Atlantic “I implore you, I beg you, I order you, in the name of God: stop the repression!” When the archbishop denounced the military government for its campaign of […]
How Muslims Became The Enemy
Source: Huffington Post By Juan Cole, who is collegiate professor of history at the University of Michigan. He runs a news and commentary webzine on U.S. foreign policy and progressive politics, […]
The Citizenship Controversy
By Rahimullah Yusufzai | Newsbeat National | Published 2 days ago As he settles into the first-ever public office he is holding, Imran Khan is learning the hard way that […]
Bones reveal Neanderthal child was eaten by a giant bird
Source: CNN By Ashley Strickland When researchers discovered the oldest human remains ever found in Poland a few years ago, they didn’t realize that the bones were hiding a grisly […]