Source: The Guardian Egypt’s top administrative court ordered authorities to block video-sharing website YouTube for a month over a film denigrating Islam’s prophet Muhammad. The ruling on Saturday ends a […]
Source: Slate Returning to a science conference after a few years of covering politics was jarring and instructive. By William Saletan Over my years as a journalist, I’ve written […]
Source: The Economist ON A baking-hot Friday afternoon in the dusty Athenian district of Neos Kosmos, a cheerful assortment of (mostly male) worshippers greet one another in Arabic, Greek and […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Gerson Opinion writer Three recent news items: ● At the Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said: “We see moral […]
Source: Religion News Service By Thomas Reese (RNS) — The overwhelming vote in Ireland in favor of allowing access to abortion shows that the pro-life movement needs a new strategy. Trying […]
Peter Welby May 29, 2018 As a Christian living in London, it is easy to forget that it is Ramadan. I keep offering Muslim colleagues coffee. It’s taken in good […]
Following diplomatic discord between Berlin and Riyadh, contracts for German businesses in Saudi Arabia have been drying up. Is the crown prince punishing them? By Susanne Koelbl Daniel Pilar […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP PARIS Malian migrant Mamoudou Gassama arrives to receive his temporary residence permit at the Prefecture of Bobigny, northeast of Paris on May 29, 2018. (AFP […]
Trump has no shame, though hopefully the country as a whole will find its own and stop this barbarism at the border before more lives are ruined David Usborne @dusborne […]
By Reuters – May 30,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Boys carry rifles as they attend a gathering held by women loyal to the Houthi movement to show their support in Sanaa, Yemen, on January 14 (Reuters file photo) ANKARA/PARIS — Iran and European powers have made good progress in talks to […]
May 30,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzi Baroud On February 20, 2018, I embarked on a global book tour that has, thus far, taken me to eight nations. The main […]
Once it was the State Department which called for ‘restraint on all sides’ – usually when the Israelis were invading or bombing Lebanon or Gaza – but now it’s the Kremlin […]
Source: Swiss Info Channel Four religious leaders, including a rabbi and an imam, have been honoured for their efforts to bring Swiss religious communities closer together. Awarded for the first […]
If there is an attack and the perpetrator is a so-called Muslim, it gets five times more coverage than were the perpetrator a non-Muslim Iffat Mirza Musings of an Ahmadi […]
Source: The Guardian Many see church as lacking compassion, archbishop says, as pope remains silent BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Diarmuid Martin, the archbishop of Dublin, will tell his congregation […]
Source: BBC News The Irish prime minister has hailed his country’s “quiet revolution” as early results point to a “resounding” vote for overturning the abortion ban. Leo Varadkar was speaking […]
Source: BBC News The Hungarian government has drafted new laws to criminalise those who help irregular migrants seeking asylum. If passed in its current form, the legislation could make printing […]
Source: BBC News By Megha Mohan When a student researching in the archives of a London museum read the unpublished memoirs of a suffragette bomber, she began to wonder if […]
Source: Time By ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN New research suggests that in order to keep your heart in the best shape, you should try to exercise for at least 30 minutes four to […]
Source: Asian Image Britain should welcome more refugees from a community of Muslims who have fled “abhorrent” abuse in Pakistan, a former cabinet minister has said. Sir Ed Davey called […]