Source: CNN Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was toppled by a corruption scandal Friday, becoming the first leader in Spain’s modern democracy to lose a vote of no-confidence in Parliament. Rajoy’s demise paves the way for Pedro Sanchez, the leader of the main opposition Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), to […]
Guardian: The house of Islam is on fire and its Muslim arsonists must be expelled. So comes the provocation from Ed Husain, self-proclaimed former Islamist radical, who puts much of the blame for Isis, Syria, Hamas and beyond on Saudi-sponsored Salafism and the export of Wahhabism across the world. “We can’t blame the […]
BETÜL ALAKENT Istanbul Turkey’s tourism sector representatives have said that the country currently holds a 2 percent share in the $226 billion global halal tourism market but looks to raise […]
GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA DHAKA AFP Photo A Bangladeshi plan to relocate 100,000 Rohingya refugees from crowded mainland camps to an island in the Bay of Bengal was deemed […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Energy Minister Berat Albayrak addresses press members at the ceremony for Turkey’s first drilling vessel Fatih. Turkey sent its first drillship to the Mediterranean for deep-sea well […]
’ By Sibilla Bondolfi, Thomas Stephens This content was published on May 30, 2018 German subtlety: a Brexit float at a carnival parade in Düsseldorf in February (Reuters) The British referendum in […]
Source: The New York Times By Danny Hakim The price of oil was in free fall and a youthful population restive. So the government of Saudi Arabia turned in […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and EVA VERGARA VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis became the first pope to publicly denounce a “culture of abuse and cover-up” in the Catholic Church, saying Thursday he was ashamed that neither he nor Chile’s Catholic leaders truly ever listened to victims as […]
Source: Religion News Service By Michele Chabin Students attend a lecture at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, located at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. Photo courtesy of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah JERUSALEM (RNS) […]
Source: The Guardian By Jessica Elgot British Jews are asking ‘Do we have a future?’ says outgoing president of board of deputies Jonathan Arkush speaks to reporters after the meeting […]
Source: The Guardian By Nicola Slawson Faith-based organisations are increasingly stepping in to support the overstretched NHS, research has found. More than 3,500 churches and 200,000 volunteers are working on […]
Source: The New York Times By Katrin Bennhold DEGGENDORF, Germany — When the order came to hang a cross in the entrance of every state building in Bavaria, the mayor […]
Source: Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian prison inmate who killed four people while on furlough committed “terrorist murder” and likely intended to cause more harm, prosecutors said Wednesday […]
Source: Aljazeera By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours Montreal, Canada – Boufeldja Benabdallah knows the shooting at his mosque could have been much worse. When a gunman entered the largest mosque in […]
Source: The Washington Post by James McAuley PARIS — She is a 19-year-old student union president who never wanted to be a culture warrior. But this is France, and Maryam […]
Source: Time By H.A. Hellyer Hellyer is a senior non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Royal United Services Institute in London, and the author of “A Revolution Undone: […]
Source: Reuters BY Emil Gjerding Nielson, Teis Jensen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark has banned the wearing of face veils in public, joining France and other European countries in outlawing the […]
By Max Walden | 29th May 2018 | @maxwalden_ A Muslim man reads the Koran as he waits for iftar, during the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Istiqlal Mosque […]
Source: The Daily Times By Busharat Elahi Jamil This dark episode of Spanish history is repeating itself in Pakistan In the 15th Century, the Catholic Monarch Ferdinand II and Isabella […]
Source: CNN The trade penalties, 25% on imported steel and 10% on imported aluminum, take effect at midnight, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told reporters Thursday. Mexico, the EU and Canada immediately announced plans to retaliate with their own tariffs against American products. Trump announced worldwide steel and aluminum tariffs in […]