Pope opens youth meeting as sex abuse survivors stage sit-in
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops to dream of a future free of the mistakes of the past as he opened […]
The Vatican worries the church is losing the young — and abuse is just one factor
Source: The Washington Post By Chico Harlan VATICAN CITY — By age 9 or 10, she had her first doubts about the faith, and not long after, she felt confident telling her […]
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Balfour Declaration‘ by Elliot Jager
Posted by Troy Warner on September 18, 2018 By Joshua Sinai – – Monday, September 17, 2018 ANALYSIS/OPINION: THE BALFOUR DECLARATION: SIXTY-SEVEN WORDS — 100 YEARS OF CONFLICT By […]
The Israel lobby’s non-stop attacks on Corbyn will backfire
Not only is the role of pro-Israel partisans in the UK now visible, but their ugly assumptions are under closer scrutiny than ever before Jonathan Cook Thursday 6 September 2018 […]
OPINION: You have your Swiss degree – now what?
Swiss news in 10 languages By Fungai Mettler THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 3, 2018 Perseverance paid off for Fungai Mettler (Fungai Mettler ) Slogging away at a Swiss university for several years can often seem the easy part: when it comes to finding a job, foreign graduates […]
Switzerland: FEDERAL AUDIT: Positive report for refugee integration packages
Swiss news in 10 languages THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 3, 2018 When it comes to supporting refugee integration in Switzerland, language education is one area of potential […]
Trump administration terminates 1955 treaty with Iran after UN court ruling
By Mark Moore October 3, 2018 Mike PompeoAP Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that the White House was terminating a 1950s treaty with Iran after a United Nations […]
Power restored to Indonesian quake city, but fate of thousands unknown
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – Oct 04,2018 -JORDAN TIMES Indonesian children access usable water at a temporary camp in Palu in Central Sulawesi on Thursday, after an earthquake and tsunami […]
From www.alislam.org : Chapter 6: Islamic Viewpoint on Contemporary Issues
This chapter is intended to address the Islamic position on primary issues undermining the confidence and moral values of today’s society. American society is daily confronted with personal or media […]
Banning sausages and bacon from school dinners could save our children’s lives – so why aren’t we doing it?
Processed meat can lead to cancer, obesity and environmental damage, yet my research showed that 99 per cent of primary school menus still feature it Jimmy Pierson The Independent Voices […]
I watched a Palestinian family lose their land 25 years ago – and this week I returned to find them
‘We don’t eat, drink or sleep. Do we stay in other people’s homes? My husband is crippled, we are both old. This is a tyranny’ Robert FiskJerusalem @indyvoices The Independent […]
French gangster evaded police in burka
BBC.COM Image copyrightIBO/SIPA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCKImage captionRédoine Faïd, pictured here in 2010, gained fame by writing a book France’s most-wanted fugitive Rédoine Faïd was tracked down by police through phone-taps and was discovered using a burqa as a disguise, prosecutors say.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45732226 Faïd, 46, was detained on Wednesday in the town where he grew […]
CBS Video: The Duality of President Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson is remembered as a progressive man who wrote the Declaration of Independence and called slavery an abomination, yet he was also a slaveholder himself who fathered several children […]
Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali’s ancestry traced back to heroic slave Archer Alexander
DNA evidence links Muhammad Ali to heroic slave, family says Source: The Washington Post By Ben Strauss When Cassius Clay joined the Nation of Islam in 1964 and changed his […]
Ahmadiyya Mosques in Germany remained open the whole day for Public
By Zubair Khan For many years 03rd October is celebrated as the day of German unification. More than two decades ago both parts of Germany got unified this day. AMJ […]
China mounts publicity campaign to counter criticism on Xinjiang
Source: Reuters By Ben Blanchard, Tom Miles BEIJING/GENEVA (Reuters) – China is mounting an increasingly sophisticated counterattack to criticism of its policies in the restive, heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang, courting […]
China: ‘Arabic-sounding’ river renamed to curb Islamic influence
Source: Aljazeera In yet another move aimed at reducing Islamic influence in China, authorities there have renamed a river because it had an “Arabic-sounding name”. The name of the river “Aiyi” […]
French police raid Shi’ite Muslim club in counter-terrorism swoop
Source: Reuters LILLE, France/PARIS (Reuters) – French police raided a Shi’ite Muslim faith center and arrested three of its leaders for illegal weapons possession in pre-dawn swoops on Tuesday that […]
Film About Catholic Church Pedophilia Sets Box-Office Record in Poland
Source: Bloomberg By Marek Strzelecki A Polish feature film about the abuses by clergy of the Roman Catholic church is setting attendance records at the country’s box office. ‘Kler’ — named after the […]
Polish court orders Catholic order to pay sex abuse victim
Source: Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — An appeals court in Poland ruled Tuesday that a Roman Catholic order should pay damages to a woman who was abducted and sexually […]