Source: The Guardian Discrimination against community intensifies after politicians ratchet up anti-gay rhetoric to gain votes BY nah Ellis-Petersen South-east Asia correspondent The LGBT community in Malaysia face arrests, canings and […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Christine A. Scheller DUBLIN (RNS) – As 750,000 Catholics gather in Dublin for the start of the World Meeting of Families, the week is shaping up […]
Power and Violence in Today’s Middle East By Marc Lynch In 2011, millions of citizens across the Arab world took to the streets. Popular uprisings from Tunis to Cairo promised […]
Source: Time By RYAN TEAGUE BECKWITH Michael Cohen once believed that he would lead Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. When that didn’t come to pass, he told friends he might become White House […]
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has pleaded guilty in a New York court to violating campaign finance laws. He said he had done so […]
Officials are pushing for a women known to document protests to be executed if she is convicted by a secret terrorism court. 18:22, UK, Wednesday 22 August 2018 Image: […]
Source: World Muslim Congress Muslims are challenged to “think” in the following three pieces written about the true meaning of Eid-al-Adha. Each article seeks to align it with the universal […]
Pakistan Mateen Haider August 22, 2018 Rawalpindi, 22 August 2018: Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa who is in Saudi Arabia to perform hajj, met Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammad Bin […]
Source: The Washington Post By Justin Jouvenal A 22-year-old man has been charged after police said he threatened to kill everyone he encountered at a Fairfax County mosque, rammed parked cars […]
Cardinal Wuerl target of rising anger after Pa. grand jury report Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein In the week since a Pennsylvania grand jury reported on child sex abuse […]
Source: Bangor Daily News By Jessica Clifford, Lincoln County News In March 2017, three Amish families moved into Whitefield. Today, the population has quadrupled. The town is home to 13 […]
Source: Associated Press By MENNA ZAKI CAIRO (AP) — Hala Shiha quit the glamorous film industry a decade ago to embrace a more religious lifestyle, adopting the traditional Muslim headscarf, […]
Indonesia woman irked by mosque noise convicted of blasphemy Source: Associated Press MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian court has sentenced a woman who complained about a noisy mosque to […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times More than two million have performed Hajj this year. Hajj is the best symbol for universal brotherhood and the […]
Eid Mubarak to all our readers from our Editorial team. The Muslims celebrate Eid twice a year, Eid-ul-Fitr and the other, which comes about 10 weeks later, is called Eid-ul-Adha. […]
Epigraph: And remember the time when We assigned to Abraham the site of the House and said, ‘Associate not anything with Me, and keep My House clean for those who […]
Ryan Rumbolt August 21, 2018 Meat from a traditional livestoc slaughter at Calgary’s the Baitun Nur Mosque will be given to Calgarians in need, as well as friends and family […]
Source: Reuters By Muhammad Yamany, Seham El-Oraby ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Muslims at the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia criticized what they described as discordant Arab leaders for failing to […]
Source: The Guardian The Taliban have fired a pair of rockets towards the presidential palace in Kabul during a live broadcast by Ashraf Ghani to mark the Muslim celebrations of Eid al-Adha, […]
Source: The Guardian BY Giuseppe Lami/EPA Hospitals in Dublin have been advised to discharge patients in order to free up beds ahead of the pope’s visit to Ireland this weekend amid warnings […]