Pope opens Easter celebration with a tweet: ‘Jesus is alive!’
By Associated Press Apr 01, 2018 | 1:55 AM | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis celebrates Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square. (Andreas Solaro / AFP/Getty Images) Tens of thousands of […]
Firing at Refugees : EU Money Helped Fortify Turkey’s Border
Turkey has barricaded its border to Syria with the help of funding from the European Union. There are few options left for Syrians trying to flee the brutal war […]
Should Jordan claim the West Bank on our behalf? An old yet new question
Mar 31,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Nermeen Murad For the past few weeks I have been sneaking 10 minutes here and there to read through the daily log documented by […]
Deal to evacuate hundreds of civilians from Syria’s Douma: monitor
By AFP – Apr 01,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Beirut – Syrian regime ally Russia struck a deal with rebels to evacuate hundreds of civilians from Douma, the final opposition pocket […]
Pakistani Court Ruling Aims to Publicly Identify All Religious Minorities
By Naila Inayat 3-28-2018 Ahmadi women walk past graves at the Ahmadi graveyard in the town of Rabwah, Pakistan, on Dec. 9, 2013. Three years earlier, 86 Ahmadis were killed […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyya locals are sleepless fearing attacks
Ujjal Chakraborty, Brahmanbaria Published March 31, 2018 Photo:Dhaka Tribune Local leaders of the Islamic sect have applied to the UNO for security, fearing their households might be attacked Members of […]
Bangladesh: Ahmadiyya mosque comes under attack
Our Correspondent, Jamalpur Some 22 people were injured as a mosque of Ahmadiyya community came under attack in Madarganj upazila of Jamalpur district on Friday. Members of the community said […]
Malala returns to home town in Pakistan for first time since shooting
Source: BBC News Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has returned to her hometown in Pakistan for the first time since she was shot there by the Taliban. Ms Yousafzai, […]
Christian Singer Favored to Win Costa Rica’s Easter Election
Source: Bloomberg By Michael D McDonald March 28, 2018, 5:00 PM GMT+5 Evangelical holds wide lead in one poll while other shows tie Fiscal deficit and debt levels have risen […]
Where the Genocide Museum Is (Mostly) Mum on the Fate of Jews
Source: The New York Times By ROD NORDLAND VILNIUS, Lithuania — During the Holocaust, many Lithuanian Jews were not killed in Nazi death camps, but by their neighbors, usually shot or […]
Devotees nailed to crosses on Good Friday in Philippines
Source: Associated Press By AARON FAVILA SAN PEDRO CUTUD, Philippines (AP) — Seven Filipino Roman Catholic devotees, including a woman, were nailed to wooden crosses in a Good Friday reenactment […]
Modi ally says India’s ruling party suffers from perception it is anti-Muslim
Source: Reuters BY Mayank Bhardwaj, Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party is struggling to change a “perception” that it is against minority Muslims […]
India Spurns the Dalai Lama’s Celebration, Worried About China
Source: The New York Times By MARIA ABI-HABIB McLEOD GANJ, India — An original song of thanks to India had been rehearsed, and a stadium in New Delhi had been reserved […]
As China, Vatican talk, bishop’s fate shows party’s power
Source: Associated Press By YANAN WANG SAIQI, China (AP) — The twin-spired church in this southern Chinese village was packed with more than a thousand Catholics observing Good Friday, but […]
For one Catholic parish in China, division and confusion as historic deal looms
Source: Reuters BY James Pomfret YINGTAN, China (Reuters) – Like many Chinese Catholics, Lin Jinqing was shocked when news trickled through to him of an impending deal between Beijing and […]
To Appreciate Freedom, Remember Slavery
Source: Wall Street Journal By Ruth R. Wisse March 29, 2018 7:00 p.m. ET Re-enacting slavery is not everyone’s idea of a good time, but this is how Jews celebrate […]
The Meaning of France’s March Against Anti-Semitism
Source: The Atlantic By RACHEL DONADIO PARIS—On April 4 of last year, a 67-year-old Jewish woman in Paris named Sarah Halimi was beaten to death and thrown off the balcony of her third-story […]
A New Plan to Create an ‘Islam of France’
Source: Atlantic By KARINA PISER When French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview last month that he plans to “set down markers on the entire way in which Islam is organized in […]
The crumbling colonial-era churches of Pakistan
Source: CNN BY Islambard Wilkinson, CNN Isambard Wilkinson was previously the Islamabad correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and is the author of ‘Travels in a Dervish Cloak.’ St George’s Cross billows […]