From Timbuktu, with love
Over 800,000 select manuscripts from this historic city are travelling to raise awarness on Africa’s written heritage The 16th century HolyQuran is an illuminatedcopy that includesnotices of ownershipand purchase […]
Who is the champion of the pious in Turkey?
MERYEM İLAYDA ATLAS @miailayda Election posters of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) decorate a street in İstanbul, June 6. The opposition has […]
Hungarian STOP Soros laws are openly xenophobic – U.N.’s Zeid
Reuters International This content was published on June 21, 2018 Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein in Geneva, Switzerland June 18, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (reuters_tickers) GENEVA (Reuters) – New Hungarian laws that criminalise […]
British milestones in Holy Land set traditional foundation for royal visit
Reuters International This content was published on June 21, 2018 The entrance of British forces under British General Edmund Hynman Allenby to Jerusalem is seen in this December 11, 1917 […]
Jordan: All cancer patients will be insured
By JT – Jun 22,2018 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN —The Cabinet, upon the recommendation of Health Minister Mahmoud Sheyyab, decided on Thursday to cover all patients diagnosed with cancer with […]
War-war and jaw-jaw
Jun 22,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power Give the man a break. US President Donald Trump found out in Singapore that, as Churchill said, “Jaw-Jaw is better than War-War.” […]
Countries wanting to tackle migration should follow Switzerland’s lead and boost local economies rather than punish individuals
Switzerland wants to give Tunisians an incentive to stay home rather than leave for Europe, but instead of building walls it’s investing in promoting tourism to the region to create jobs […]
In the land of the massacres, the very last Armenians have been finally been found
Avedis Hadjian, author of “Secret Nation: The Hidden Armenians of Turkey”, sometimes appears out of breath, exhausted by his attempts to find his people’s ancestors and descendants Robert Fisk @indyvoices The Independent […]
Can former Lebanese MP Mustafa Alloush turn even the coldest of Middle Eastern sceptics into an optimist?
Bullet holes still blister the buildings and army checkpoints control the roads up to the Alawite Jabel Mohsen district, but Alloush spots an illusory element about all this Robert Fisk […]
Three men indicted for Minnesota mosque bombing
Source: Reuters (Reuters) – Three men from a rural community in Illinois were indicted on Thursday and charged for the 2017 bombing of a mosque outside Minneapolis, U.S. prosecutors said. […]
Faith Leaders Say Sikh Refugees and Others in Oregon Prison Are Being Denied Access to Religious Services
Source: WILLAMETTE WEEK By Frankie Benitez | Religious leaders from the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice today denounced the treatment of the 123 immigrants detained in a federal prison in Sheridan, […]
A battle over ‘Catholic identity’ at Catholic University of America
Source: Religion News Service BY Jack Jenkins WASHINGTON (RNS) — In February 2012, about a year after John Garvey was named 15th president of the Catholic University of America, Stephen […]
Muted reaction by ‘pro-family’ groups to family separations
Source: Associated Press By DAVID CRARY Even as many religious organizations, from liberal to conservative, denounced the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border, some major […]
Pope, in Geneva, says Christians must work together on peace
Source: Associated Press By JAMEY KEATEN and FRANCES D’EMILIO GENEVA (AP) — Pope Francis journeyed Thursday to the well-heeled city of Geneva to encourage all Christians, despite their differences, to […]
Iran arrests lawyer for criticizing execution
Source: Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian lawyer has been arrested for “spreading lies” after saying on social media that a Sufi executed this week was wrongfully convicted. […]
Saudi Women Drivers Face One Last Roadblock: Saudi Men
Source: Wall Street Journal By Margherita Stancati and Donna Abdulaziz June 21, 2018 5:30 a.m. ET RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—When this kingdom’s ban on women driving ends Sunday, many Saudi women say they still face […]
In Iran, football, religion and politics often overlap
Source: DW When Iran’s football squad beat Morocco 1-0 in their opening Wold Cup match, Iranians broke out in ecstatic jubilation. It was the first time in 20 years that the […]
Baghdad mall sorry for turning away orphans at Eid
Source: BBC News By Lamees Altalebi Image copyrightRUHMAA BENAHMImage captionAfter this group of war orphans were prevented from entering from a luxury mall in Baghdad, the centre offered to pay […]
Indian official transferred for ‘humiliating’ Hindu-Muslim couple
Source: BBC News A passport official in the northern Indian city of Lucknow has been transferred after a couple complained that he harassed them because they were not from the […]
Egypt fights Islamic extremism by allowing women leaders at mosques
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter and Amr El Tohamy CAIRO (RNS) – Four years ago, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi called on state-supported Muslim clerics “to improve the image of […]