Pakistan election: Dozens killed on voting day
Source: BBC News Pakistan has been hit by violence on the day of its general elections – with at least 31 dead in the worst attack. A suicide bomber blew […]
31 killed in suicide blast outside Quetta polling station
Source: Dawn News At least 31 people have been killed and more than 30 injured in a suicide blast outside a polling station in Quetta’s Eastern Bypass area on Wednesday, […]
Every Muslim in the West is an Ambassador for Islam, Willing or Not!
In Western Europe, familiarity with Muslims is linked to positive views of Muslims and Islam Pew Research Center By Scott Gardner and Jonathan Evans Across Western Europe, people who say […]
Brownback opens religious freedom summit with plea to fight persecution
July 24, 2018 Survivors of religious persecution, left, stood and were recognized by Sam Brownback, at podium on right, U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, during the start of the […]
Boulder falls from Jerusalem’s Western Wall, barely missing worshipper
Source: Reuters BY Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An elderly worshipper had a close call on Monday when a 100-kg (220 lb) stone suddenly fell from Jerusalem’s Western Wall and […]
Indonesia passes anti-terrorism law after suicide attacks on churches
Source: Religion News Service JAKARTA, Indonesia (RNS) — Weeks after a radicalized Muslim family committed suicide attacks on churches in the city of Surabaya, Indonesia, the country passed an anti-terror law […]
Indian police probed for ‘having tea break rather than taking lynching victim to hospital’ after attack by ‘cow vigilantes’
Source: South China Morning Post Officers are accused of catering to themselves first, then making sure a cow was safe before tending to the victim, who died from his injuries […]
Erdogan says new Israeli law fascist, Hitler’s spirit re-emerging
Source: Reuters ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday an Israeli law declaring that only Jews have the right of self-determination legitimizes oppression and shows that Israel […]
I’m Jewish and Pakistani… let me go to Israel
The only things that can stand in the way of progress are the laws made by the majority to rule over the people in the minority. It is only by […]
Philippine rebel chief: 30,000 rebels to be disarmed in deal
Source: Associated Press By Jim Gomex MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The leader of the largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines said Tuesday that 30,000 to 40,000 armed fighters would […]
Emboldened Ortega vilifies Catholic Church in bid to derail talks in Nicaragua
Source: Miami Herald By Tim Johnson In a risky change of strategy, embattled President Daniel Ortega has backed off from a Catholic Church-mediated dialogue with his opposition and launched […]
Chilean prosecutors probing 36 claims of Catholic Church sex abuse
Source: Reuters BY Aislinn Laing, Cassandra Garrison (Reuters) – The Chilean civil authorities are investigating 36 accusations of sexual abuse against bishops, clerics and lay workers in the Roman Catholic […]
Stop the ‘weaponization’ of religion in Pakistani politics
July 24, 2018 Pakistani politician Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, addresses his supporters during an election campaign in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 23, 2018. Pakistan holds general elections […]
China: Tibetan students banned from religious activities
Source: Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Children in traditionally Buddhist Tibet have been banned from taking part in religious activities over the summer holidays, an official Chinese Communist Party newspaper […]
Counting begins in Pakistani elections marred by suicide bomb
QUETTA/PESHAWAR, Pakistan Reuters Published July 25, 2018 A suicide bomber killed at least 29 people near a polling center as Pakistanis voted on Wednesday in a knife-edge general election pitting […]
Is Democracy Dying in Pakistan?
How the Military and Judiciary Threaten the Upcoming Elections By Ahmed Rashid Pakistan’s upcoming general elections on July 25 may be the most tense and fraught in the country’s brief […]
Turkey eyes 850K medical tourists for 2018, following boom in sector last year
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL With the opportunities and quality it offers, Turkey has experienced a boom in its health tourism sector with 700,000 tourists coming to the country […]
Turkey not obliged to abide by sanctions imposed by US or UK against Iran, FM says
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu talks at a press conference during a visit in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, in the city of Lefkoşa, July […]
Brussels pledges to pay for each migrant taken by EU governments
REUTERS BRUSSELS Reuters Photo The European Commission offered on Tuesday to shoulder the cost of taking in migrants from boats in the Mediterranean, seeking to entice more governments to shoulder […]
Iraq’s unrest could pave way for profound political reform
Jul 24,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Osama Al Sharif More than two months after Iraqis headed to the polls to elect a new parliament and as Muqtada Al Sadr, whose […]