Source: Associated Press QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A lawyer in Pakistan ended her three-day hunger strike on Wednesday after the country’s top general vowed to redouble efforts to protect the Shiite minority, which has been targeted in a string of attacks by Sunni extremists. Jalila Haider called off her protest […]
Source: DW A new study has found that 54,000 high school students in Germany receive Islam religion lessons — but 10 times as many would be interested. Experts say religion […]
Source: The Guardian Daniel Boffey in Brussels Belgian MPs are taking a major step towards the decriminalisation of abortion after a parliamentary majority emerged in favour of following France and Luxembourg […]
Source: BBC News Remarks by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas about the Holocaust have been condemned as anti-Semitic by Israeli politicians and rights activists. Mr Abbas told a meeting in the […]
Source: The Guardian Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome Question in Rome is now whether Pope Francis is prepared to take tougher action against accused priests Cardinal George Pell leaves Melbourne magistrates court […]
Source: BBC News Cardinal George Pell is expected to face two trials on sexual assault charges, an Australian court has heard. The Vatican treasurer, 76, has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and has strenuously denied any wrongdoing. On Tuesday, a magistrate ordered him to stand trial. The allegations […]
President Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims so far Washington Post (CNN)The Washington Post’s Fact-Checker blog has been keeping a strict count of President Donald Trump’s many misstatements, untruths and outright lies. And, over the weekend at a rally in Michigan, Trump hit a(nother) milestone: He topped 3,000 untrue or […]
Source: Associated Press By IBRAHIM ABDUL’AZIZ YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — A pair of explosions killed at least 28 worshippers at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria and wounded at least 56 […]
Source: Huffington Post By Mary Papenfuss Actress Roseanne Barr raised the possibility as recently as March that she might run for president — again. Now she’s fantasizing about becoming Israel’s prime […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rowaida Abdelaziz Under President Donald Trump, the United States government has shown an “unprecedented level of government hostility” toward the Muslim religious minority in the country, according to a newly released report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR’s 2018 civil rights report, “Targeted,” disclosed that federal government […]
Source: Vox By Nancy D. Wadsworth White evangelical Protestants continue to approve of President Donald Trump at about twice the rate of the general public, according to a recent survey by the […]
Competing Visions of Islam Will Shape Europe in the 21st Century Source: The Atlantic By David Frum Akbar Ahmed’s new book deals with how migration is reshaping the continent, and […]
Source: Times of Israel Previously unseen Dead Sea Scroll fragments, which had been stored in cigar boxes since archaeologists unearthed them in the 1950s, were identified and unveiled at an international conference on Tuesday in honor of the 70th anniversary of the scrolls’ discovery in Jerusalem.The tiny fragments, all thought […]
Source: AT A late-night air strike targeting a base in the Syrian city of Hama was carried out by Israeli F-15s, US officials revealed on Tuesday amid calls for retaliation from Iran. Media outlets associated with the Syrian government and Hezbollah initially suggested Israel was behind the attack, but parties […]
Source: AT “In terms of the peace-building process, President Moon has a larger share, but in terms of inducing change from North Korea, that can be attributed to President Trump,” Shin told reporters at a press briefing on Wednesday. Noting that there is “a lot of speculation” on why North […]
Source:Breitbart.con Muslim prison chaplains have warned their lives are in danger from sectarian radicals supporting a Sunni Muslim from Bradford who killed a member of the Ahmadiyya sect living in Scotland. The religious leaders say killer Tanveer Ahmed has “put out a death warrant” on their heads and that there […]
The government will bring 50 ulemas from various countries to attend a High Level Consultation of World Muslim Ulemas and Islamic Scholars in Bogor, West Java, which is scheduled to […]
* The president made these remarks while addressing the AJK National Coordination Council seminar. APP May 2, 2018 MIRPUR: Azad Jammu & Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has emphasised that […]
By: Mahbub Ghani In today’s world what Friedrich Gauss called the queen of mathematics plays a crucial role in providing internet security. Here we look at some of the […]
Source: CT Now, it’s quite possible to argue that this is just a recognition that the state is historically Christian (and Catholic, actually) – as Bavaria’s chief minister Markus Söder does. But that’s not how it’s being seen by many Christians today. According to Evangelical Focus, a survey in Bild […]