Pakistan delays ruling on blasphemy death sentence case
Source: Associated Press By KATHY GANNON ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Supreme Court postponed its ruling Monday on the final appeal of a Christian woman who has been on death row […]
Activists push for more clergy sex abuse charges in Poland
Source: Associated Press By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish activists met with opposition lawmakers Monday to demand criminal punishment for Catholic priests convicted of sexually abusing children and […]
Japan’s mobile mosque takes ‘omotenashi’ hospitality everywhere
Source: The Japan News URAYASU, Japan – A “mobile mosque” was unveiled in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture, in late September, with Muslim residents of the Kanto region coming to say their […]
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un invites Pope Francis to Pyongyang
Source: BBC News North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has invited Pope Francis to visit the country, South Korea’s presidential office has announced. The invitation to visit Pyongyang will be delivered […]
Missing Saudi journalist once a voice of reform in kingdom
Source: Associated Press By SARAH EL DEEB BEIRUT (AP) — Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who disappeared last week after a visit to his country’s consulate in Turkey, was once […]
Minister condemns plans for Uganda’s first LGBT centre as ‘criminal act’
Source: The Guardian By Samuel Okiror Activists trying to open Uganda’s first centre for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have been told their plans for a safe space are illegal. […]
Romania aims to legalize same-sex civil union after failed vote
Source: Reuters BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s ruling party aims to introduce legislation to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples, the state news agency quoted a cabinet minister as saying, after […]
Nationalist parties prevail in Bosnia parliamentary vote
Source: Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Nationalists will stay firmly in power after Bosnia’s general election, deepening the ethnic divide in the country that went through a brutal war […]
One of the World’s 7,000 Languages Dies Every Three Months. Can Apps Help Save Them?
Source: Time By KATY STEINMETZ Like his ancestors, 65-year-old Clayton Long spent his childhood immersed in Navajo culture, greeting fellow clan members with old, breathful Navajo words like “Yá’át’ééh.” Then he was sent to an English-only boarding school where his native language, also known as Diné, was banned. “I went into a […]
Feeling stressed? Have a nap
Source: BBC News By Christine Ro When her daughter was preschool-aged, Rebecca Spencer experienced something familiar to many parents and childminders: the power of a nap. Without it, her daughter […]
Jamal Khashoggi: Turkish media says video shows disappearance plot
Image copyrightREUTERS Turkish media outlets have published CCTV footage which they say shows evidence of a plot linked to missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. It shows purported Saudi intelligence officers […]
Tensions between Italy and France as ministers meet on immigration
AFP news@thelocal.it @thelocalitaly 9 October 2018 Matteo Salvini (L) meets Edouard Philippe in Lyon. Photo: Jeff Pachoud/AFP French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe urged Italian leader Matteo Salvini on Monday to […]
PAKISTAN: The IMF programme
Miftah Ismail October 10, 2018 The PTI government has finally decided to disclose to the nation that it is going for a new IMF programme. It waited to disclose this […]
What should we do with them?
Mohammed Hanif October 7, 2018 A number of politicians, ulema of various kind and tajzia nigars have concluded that Qadianis are not a minority. What can be worse than being […]
Ahmadiyya Mission Conference On Peace And Global Justice
GNA The Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana will on Wednesday October 10 hold a day’s Peace Conference on the theme: ‘Peace and Global Justice,’ in Accra. A statement issued in […]
Author shines light on women of colour’s role in shaping Islam in US
Ahead of Ahmadiyya community leader’s US visit, author Sylvia Chan-Malik says Islam has rich history in the country Sylvia Chan-Malik’s book weaves personal stories from the early 20th Century until […]
Ahmadiyya Legal Situationon further Worsens
Source: IHRC Justice Siddiqui while quoting Senator Raja Zafarul Haq’s report on the matter has pinned the blame on the former law minister Zahid Hamid and former Federal Minister for lnformation Technology and Telecommunication, Anusha Rehman. • Justice Siddiqui has also ordered for Haq’s report to be made public • […]
Sri Lanka Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association Annual Gathering – 2018.
Posted on October 9th, 2018 By A. Abdul Aziz. Lajna Imaillah (Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association) Sri Lanka held its Annual Gathering (Ijtima) recently at Ahmadiyya Jubilee Hall Negombo. The event […]
Free to call ourselves Muslim in India, say minority Ahmadiyyas
Hemani Bhandari OCTOBER 08, 2018 A ‘Minara’ (place of worship) of the Ahmadiyya community in Qadian, Amritsar. About 6,000 Ahmadiyyas live in the town in a settlement spread across […]
Nationalists win in Bosnia, including Serb who opposes ‘impossible state’
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 8, 2018 Milorad Dodik, of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats, SNSD attends a news conference where he declared himself […]