Irish Prime Minister glad Church is ‘less dominant’ in Ireland
Leo Varadkar glad Church is ‘less dominant’ in Ireland Source: BBC News Leo Varadkar has said he is glad the Catholic Church is now less dominant in public life. On […]
Ireland Stays Faithful to a Catholic Education
Source: Wall Street Journal By Paul Hannon DUBLIN—As Ireland prepares to welcome its first papal visit in four decades when Pope Francis arrives Saturday, it is a much changed and […]
Priest urges Vatican family conference to welcome gays
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and LEO ENRIGHT DUBLIN (AP) — One of the Catholic Church’s leading advocates for gays told a Vatican-sponsored conference Thursday that LGBT Catholics deserve […]
Deciding to Leave: The Last Straw that Broke a Catholic’s Back!
I’m A Lifelong Catholic. Here’s Why I’ve Finally Decided To Leave The Church. Source: The Huffington Post By Amanda Auchter; who is the author of The Wishing Tomb, winner of […]
36th Jalsa Salana (annual gathering) Switzerland August 25th and 26th
go to http://www.jalsasalana.ch for further information. Jalsa Salana Home About Program Speakers Sign up Live Contact #SwissJalsa Welcome to Jalsa Salana 36th annual convention of Ahmadi Muslims in Switzerland! […]
Saudi Arabia silent on reports of Makkah Imam being detained
Imam of Kaaba attacked and humiliated Dawn.comUpdated August 24, 2018 Facebook Count200 Twitter Share 0 Saudi Arabia has yet to confirm or deny the reports of Sheikh Dr Saleh bin Mohammed Al Talib, Imam and Preacher of the Grand Holy Mosque in Makkah, being detained by authorities. On Sunday, the […]
Australia’s next PM made his name on turning back refugees
Source: Associated Press By ROD McGuirk CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s next prime minister, Scott Morrison, is seen by some as an incongruous mix of a committed Christian who made […]
Rohingya Muslims seeking refuge in Bangladesh would rather die than go back
‘I Would Rather Die Than Go Back’: Rohingya Refugees Settle Into Life In Bangladesh Source: NPR By JASON BEAUBIEN The Myanmar soldiers arrived in the morning, Dildar Begum says. They surrounded […]
Angry Pakistanis torch minority Ahmadi’s place of worship
Source: Associated Press LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A spokesman for Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi sect says a mob of Sunni Muslims have torched the group’s place of worship. Thursday’s assault in a village near the eastern city of Faisalabad in Punjab province is the latest sectarian attack on the Ahmadis in […]
Holocaust memorials atop mass graves in Estonia torched, vandalized with swastika
Source: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) — Unidentified individuals scrawled anti-Semitic slogans and symbols on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia. The incident occurred sometime last week at the Kalevi-Liiva village […]
Nisreen’s Choice: Women Rescued From Islamic State Are Told to Leave Children Behind
Source: Wall Street Journal By Isabel Coles and Ali Nabhan DUHOK, Iraq—When Nisreen searches her baby’s budding features she can sometimes see traces of his father: the Islamic State militant who raped her, […]
Survivors of last major Islamic State battle in Iraq beg for food
Source: Reuters BY Maria Tsvetkova MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – On a scorching August afternoon, an angry crowd besieged a mini-truck loaded with meat of two slaughtered cows amidst the ruins of […]
Over 100 booked under Anti-Terrorism Act for setting ablaze Ahmadi worship place in Pakistan
Source: India.com By PTI Feeds Lahore, Aug 24 (PTI) Over 100 people have been booked under the Anti-Terrorism Act for setting ablaze a worship place of the minority Ahmadi community […]
Stopping the Collapse: Berlin Softens Tone on Turkey
Germany has gone soft on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan since he became the subject of attacks by U.S. President Donald Trump. Leaders in Berlin are concerned that any […]
What Will Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Ties Look Like Under Imran Khan?
Khan’s first trip overseas will be to Saudi Arabia, to shore up a longtime partnership. By Samuel Ramani August 24, 2018 On August 13, Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran […]
Ahmadi place of worship damaged, set on fire following spat between two youth groups in Faisalabad
Kashif Hussain Updated August 24, 2018 Thirty-one people were injured and an Ahmadi place of worship was damaged and set on fire following a verbal spat between two […]
Pakistani court orders list of people who left Islam
Source: Rabwah.Net BY Ehsun Rehan On Monday a Pakistani court ordered the country’s national citizen database to handover list of individuals who left Islam and requested a change of religion […]
A vision for Australia beyond its borders
Posted by Senator Mehreen Faruqi Dr Mehreen Faruqui, the newly elected Greens Senator in the Australian Federal Parliament reflects on her maiden speech given on Tuesday 21 August 2018 as […]
Why we should all love the vulture
Source: BBC News By Matilda Battersby Have a bone to pick with the scraggy vulture? Just remember they’re vital as nature’s waste disposers – which is why their decline is […]
Trump Is in Trouble. Here’s How Much Worse It Can Get
Source: Time By Brian Bennett Michael Cohen once believed he would lead Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. When that didn’t come to pass, he told friends he might be White House […]