By JT – Apr 11,2018 -JORDAN TIMES Prime Minister Hani Mulki discusses the water situation in Jordan with officials at the Ministry of Water and Irrigation on Wednesday (Petra photo) […]
Apr 11,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen This region has become a free fire zone. Any country can become a shooting gallery at any moment. A video of the shooting by […]
By AFP – Apr 12,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Sydney- A high-profile Australian author and Muslim activist was refused entry to the United States Thursday and put on a plane home […]
Apr 11,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab It clearly was neither coordinated nor intentional, but this Easter Sunday saw an unusually low governmental and public interaction with Palestinian Christians. It […]
By AFP – Apr 12,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Washington – The United Nations warned world powers against letting the crisis over an alleged chemical attack against civilians in Syria from […]
Source: The Washington Post By Amanda Erickson March 25 Email the author Pope Francis waves as he celebrates the Vesper prayer in the Church of San Gregorio al Celio, in central Rome. (Andreas […]
Source: BBC News By Lizzie Porter Sharya, Iraq Image copyrightLEILA MOLANA-ALLENImage captionKhalid Taalo Khudhur al-Ali with nephews and nieces who also made it to safety in August 2014 Khalid Taalo Khudhur al-Ali fled with his wife and children as Islamic State militants attacked their town in Iraq in 2014, but 19 […]
Source: Time By BRIAN BENNETT April 10, 2018 Historians judge presidents by how they react in times of crisis, and during an unseasonably cold April in Washington, Trump is facing two major ones: how to respond to a brutal chemical strike in Syria and what to do about investigations reaching his […]
Source: The New York Times By ELISABETH MALKIN APRIL 9, 2018 Women at risk of premature birth resting at El Hospital de La Mujer in San Salvador.CreditFred Ramos for The New York Times SAN SALVADOR — When Teodora del Carmen Vásquez walked out of the Ilopango women’s prison a few weeks ago, […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack By any measure, the new Mormon prophet is an optimist. In a move at once audacious and somewhat inexplicable, for example, 93-year-old Russell M. Nelson stood at the pulpit at the conclusion of his first LDS General Conference as the faith’s 17th president […]
Source: The Guardian Podcast of quiet Nottingham group gathering, inspired by BBC’s ‘slow radio’ season, clocks 400 tune-ins BY Frances Perraudin North of England reporter The Silent Special podcast featured the ambient sounds of a clock ticking and rain falling. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo It’s not the most obvious subject for […]
Source: Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron is encouraging religious leaders to voice their concerns ahead of a proposal to change the country’s laws on assisted reproduction and euthanasia. Speaking to Catholic bishops in Paris —a rare occasion in the historically Catholic country attached to its secular […]
Source: Reuters BY Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis has put Satan in his place, citing the devil repeatedly in a document published on Monday following a Vatican rebuke last month of a journalist who quoted him as saying hell does not exist. Pope Francis arrives to […]
Source: Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese authorities have torn down “two or three” crosses adorning Christian churches in one county because they were “illegally built”, state media quoted an official as saying on Tuesday. The officially atheist ruling Communist Party has tightened restrictions and oversight of religious practice in China […]
Source: Reuters BY Nita Bhalla NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rapists in Somaliland face up to 20 years in jail after the break-away conservative Islamic region passed its first law against rape in a drive to combat gender violence, a senior official said on Monday. The bill, which passed parliament’s […]
Source: The New Yorker By Vinson Cunningham Illustration by Javier Jaén; photograph from iStock / Getty https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/thenewyorker/#file=https://downloads.newyorker.com/mp3/180416cr_critics_cunningham_audm.mp3 Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone. For the better part of the past two years, Catholics around the world have been fighting over a footnote. In […]
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By Peggy Fletcher Stack On an otherwise unremarkable June day nearly four decades ago, the LDS Church made a momentous declaration: It was opening its priesthood to “all worthy males,” ending a centurylong ban on black men and boys being ordained, and on black women […]
Source: myAJC By Rosalind Bentley and Ernie Suggs – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Martin Luther King III, center, holding hands with his daughter Yolanda Renee King, leads the March for Humanity Monday commemorating the funeral procession for his father. Rosalind Bentley / rbentley@ajc.com Updated: 4:16 p.m. Monday, April 09, 2018 | Posted: 3:18 p.m. Monday, April […]
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Hannah Allam and Talal Ansari BuzzFeed News Reporter A BuzzFeed News analysis found that Republican officials in 49 states have openly attacked Muslims with words and proposed legislation since 2015, and few have faced repercussions. A state lawmaker in Oklahoma refused to meet with Muslim constituents unless they replied […]
Source: Time By LINDSAY WHITEHURST / AP (SALT LAKE CITY) — After Utah passed the country’s first law legalizing so-called free-range parenting, groups in states from New York to Texas are pushing for similar steps to bolster the idea that supporters say is an antidote for anxiety-plagued parents and overscheduled kids. […]