Pakistan: Ensure Ahmadi Voting Rights
Repeal Discriminatory Laws Against Religious Community Expand Women walk out of a community center of the Ahmadiyya community in Rabwah, Pakistan, October 19, 2017. © 2017 Reuters (New York) – The […]
Israel: Netanyahu targets Iran in bizarre football diplomacy video
By News Desk Published: June 29, 2018 6SHARES SHARE TWEET EMAIL SCREEN GRAB Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lauded the world cup heroics of Iran by drawing parallels to anti-government protesters on the streets of Tehran, according to The Jerusalem Post. “You showed courage on the playing field and today you showed the same […]
Vatican: Pakistani priest appointed as cardinal in Vatican
By AFP / News Desk Published: June 29, 2018 Tribune.com.pk SHARE TWEET EMAIL Newly-appointed cardinal Joseph Coutts receives guests in Paul VI’s Hall at the Vatican following a consistory ceremony, June 28 2018. PHOTO: REUTERS VATICAN CITY: Pakistani Archbishop Joseph Coutts from Karachi on Thursday was appointed as a cardinal by Pope Francis. Coutts is one of the […]
King’s Cross Aga Khan Centre shows wonders of the Islamic world
Source: Evening Standard By Jonathan Prynn Britain’s largest collection of Islamic gardens, terraces and courtyards is to be opened today by Prince Charles at a new Muslim education hub in […]
UK welcomes His Highness the Aga Khan for the opening of new academic centre in London
Press release FCO Minister Lord Ahmad attends official opening of the new Aga Khan Centre. Published 26 June 2018 From: Department for International Development, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and Lord […]
It Looks like Afghanistan and the Taliban May Try to End 17 Years of War
June 22, 2018 Could domestic politicians and the international community work to maintain this peace momentum? by Atta Nasib On June 7, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani made a powerful concession […]
Comparing faiths
Source: Dawn RELIGIOUS experience has been a profound phenomenon in human history in terms of holding beliefs, adopting a religious language, and interpreting the mundane and sacred. There is no one type of experience all religions universally acclaim, but a “variety of religious experiences”, as William James rightly demonstrates. Therefore, […]
Prince William visits Al Aqsa Mosque compound
Royalty caught in Mideast complicated politics as he calls Palestine a country By AFP – Jun 29,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Britain’s Prince William (2nd left), accompanied by a group including […]
Working for religious harmony
Jun 28,2018 – JORDAN TIMES In a world dominated by political events, wars, interstate conflicts, and even interfaith frictions and disharmony, it is refreshing and encouraging that His Majesty king […]
The ‘ultimate deal’ that Jared Kushner is proposing for Palestine would strip the people of all their dignity
Is there no humiliation left for the Palestinians? After Oslo, after the “two state solution”, after the years of Israeli occupation – of “Area A” and “Area C” to […]
Hassanabdal Cadet College was ‘first of its kind’
Source: Dawn By Amjad Iqbal Established in 1952 by Ayub Khan, the Hassanabdal Cadet College was the first quasi-military boarding school of its kind in Pakistan. The first principal of […]
US envoy urges Pakistan to stop protecting terrorists
Source: Associated Press By ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI (AP) — Nikki Haley, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, said Thursday her country is urging Pakistan more strongly not to […]
Pakistan takes radical Sunni leader off terrorist watchlist ahead of election
Source: Reuters BY Asif Shahzad, Mubasher Bukhari ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has removed the leader of one of the country’s largest Islamist extremist groups from its terrorist watchlist while the Election […]
US-Israeli teen convicted of threats against Jewish centres
Source: BBC News A court in Israel has convicted a 19-year-old American-Israeli man of making hundreds of threats to bomb or attack Jewish schools and community centres. Michael Ron David […]
Prince William tours Jerusalem on final day of royal visit
Source: Associated Press By ARON HELLER JERUSALEM (AP) — Prince William toured sensitive Jerusalem holy sites on Thursday and paid a pilgrimage to the tomb of his great-grandmother on the […]
Indonesia plans crackdown on condemned cleric’s militant network
Source: Reuters By Kanupriya Kapoor, Agustinus Beo Da Costa JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s counter-terrorism police plan to arrest more than 100 suspected militants in a bid to prevent retaliatory attacks after […]
Islamists fail to sway regional Indonesian elections
Source: Reuters BY Tom Allard JAKARTA (Reuters) – A resounding win by an Indonesian mayor targeted by some hardline Muslims over the construction of a church highlighted a broader failure […]
U.K. Supreme Court Rules It’s Unfair To Offer Civil Unions Only To Same-Sex Couples
Source: NPR By CECILIA LEI On Wednesday, Britain’s Supreme Court unanimously ruled that heterosexual couples should not be banned from entering civil partnerships and that making them only available to same-sex couples is […]
2 more Chilean bishops are out as pope cleans house
Source: Associated Press By FRANCES D’EMILIO VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Thursday accepted the resignations of two more Chilean bishops, the latest fallout from a sex abuse scandal […]
A popular pope, but how powerful? Francis still fights internal battles
Source: Reuters BY Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – When Pope Francis wanted to appoint a woman as deputy head of the Vatican press office in 2016, he quickly ran […]