Source: The Guardian BY Joyce Fegan On 25 May, voters in Ireland will decide whether to legalise abortion. Doctors, grandparents and those who have been forced to travel the UK to […]
Source: The Washington Post By Amy B Wang In 1951, a 14-year-old Australian boy named James Harrison awoke from a major chest operation. Doctors had removed one of his lungs in […]
Source: BBC News An Australian court has found a Catholic archbishop guilty of concealing child sexual abuse in the 1970s. Philip Wilson, now archbishop of Adelaide, becomes the most senior […]
Source: Time By IAN SALISBURY May 21, 2018 When Paula Pant was 27 years old, she and her future husband Will were paying $400 a month for a single bedroom in […]
Source: Time By ASSOCIATED PRESS May 21, 2018 (HAVRE, Mont.) — A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent questioned two women for speaking Spanish in line at a gas station in […]
Source: Time By NICOLE WINFIELD / AP May 21, 2018 (VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis’ reported comments to a gay man that “God made you like this” have been embraced by […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Curry, who was installed as presiding bishop of the U.S.-based member of the Anglican Communion on Nov. 1, 2015, is the son of an outspoken civil rights activist who helped bring an end to segregated schools in Buffalo. As bishop in North Carolina, […]
Vessela Tcherneva @vtcherneva 18th May, 2018 The West is more and more divided and global strategic interests are diverging. The impact of the US President on views and transatlantic trust is significant. ‘You, Europeans, come to this town to preach to us, to complain and accuse, and then expect us […]
The documentary – Among The Believers examines the increasing political and religious turmoil in Pakistan since the War on Terror, with specific attention to the Red Mosque (Lal Masjid) and […]
Source: BBC In 2012, then PM Julia Gillard set up a royal commission, the country’s highest form of public inquiry, to look into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. By the time it had published its final report in December last year, it had handled 42,000 calls and referred more […]
Source: CT Bishop Curry rightly cited 1 John 4:8, ‘God is love’. And he spoke of the power of that love. But, and this is easily done, he soon slipped into ‘love is God’ – ‘any form of love’ (again without defining what love is). Even when he mentioned Jesus’ […]
Source: CT Membership has fallen by around 20 per cent in five years, from 413,000 in 2011 to 336,000 at the end of 2017. In the next five or six years there will be a shortfall of around 300 paid ministers with 75 per cent currently over the age of […]
Source: Dawn NEW DELHI: Former spy chief A.S. Dulat asked the Indian government on Monday to invite Pakistan’s Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa to kick-start the stalled talks between the two countries. Speaking to NDTV together with former ISI chief Lt Gen Asad Durrani ahead of the release of […]
Source: CNN It’s hard to predict when war will break out, but Sweden wants to make sure that it’s populace is always prepared for the worst. The Swedish government is reissuing an instructional war pamphlet to all 4.8 million households in the country, informing them for the first time in […]
2018-05-21 A poster of late Chairman Mao Zedong watches over Uyghur students in a classroom at a middle school in Hotan prefecture, in a file photo. AP Photo Authorities in […]
Posted May 20 In this 2012 file photo, Yasmin Hassan, 9, front, participates in daily prayer at the Bilal Mosque in Beaverton. Islam requires that children above the age […]
Posted on June 3, 2016 by Ismaili Gnostic Certain Muslim groups in present times have publicly monopolized and “normalized” an image of Islam where Islam equals the so-called “Five Pillars”: […]
By Carol Kuruvilla As part of the holy month of Ramadan, which started last week, millions of Muslims around the world will abstain from food and water between dawn and dusk. Muslims keeping the fast typically wake up before dawn and eat a “suhoor” meal, which means they need to […]
Stopping smoking or drinking coffee in Ramadan might prove harder than staying away from food Image Credit: Pixabay Published: 08:00 May 22, 2018 Dona Cherian, Guides Writer We […]
By Imam Syed Shamshad A. Nasir, Masjid Mahmood Call Office: 248 293 0072 | Mobile: 909-636-8332 Email: shamshadanasir@gmail.com By the Grace of God, the Muslim world has entered the Holy […]