Brazil: Bishop arrested on corruption charges
Source: BBC News Police have detained the Roman Catholic bishop of the city of Formosa in central Brazil, on charges of corruption. Bishop José Ronaldo and six other priests are […]
The Saudis Take On Radical Islam
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Adel Al-Toraifi March 19, 2018 6:09 p.m. ET Riyadh, Saudi Arabia The year 1979 was a watershed for the Middle East. Iranian revolutionaries overthrew […]
Will legislature make an annual day of prayer at schools state law?
Source: LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER BY VALARIE HONEYCUTT SPEARS An annual day of prayer for Kentucky’s students at school would become state law under a bill passed Thursday in the House. But Amber […]
Belgium ends Saudi mosque lease, citing ‘foreign interference’ and extremism
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Birnbaum and Quentin Ariès March 19 Email the author BRUSSELS — The Belgian government has decided to terminate the long-term lease of the country’s largest and oldest mosque to the […]
Ban on Face Veils at Indonesian University Lasted Just a Week
Source: The New York Times By JOE COCHRANE JAKARTA, Indonesia — When the head of a prominent Islamic university in Indonesia banned the face-concealing niqab headdress on campus this month, calling […]
Richard Dawkins to give away copies of The God Delusion in Islamic countries
Source: The Guardian By Alison Flood Author and the Centre for Inquiry planning free ebook versions of his books in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Indonesian following a ‘stirring towards atheism’ in […]
Does the pope own the Vatican brand? Spain, so far, says yes
Source: Associated Press By ARITZ PARRA MADRID (AP) — A Vatican crackdown on the commercial use of its name and official emblems has encountered resistance from a Spanish website that […]
Seeking immortality: Aubrey de Grey at TEDxSalford
Source: Youtube TED Talks Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease — and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he […]
The World’s Last Male Northern White Rhino Has Died
Source: Time By ELI MEIXLER March 20, 2018 The world’s last male northern white rhino has died, according to a Kenyan wildlife conservatory and anti-poaching NGO WildAid, spelling the likely extinction for […]
Stem Cell Treatment Could Be a Game-Changer for People With MS
Source: Time By ALICE PARK March 19, 2018 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Researchers reported encouraging results for a stem cell transplant for multiple sclerosis (MS) that some doctors and […]
Xi Jinping warns any attempt to split China is ‘doomed to fail’
Source: BBC News Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered a fervently nationalistic closing speech to parliament, painting China as the rising global power. Mr Xi said “achieving total unity” was […]
Texas explosions: Trump vows to catch ‘sick’ bomber
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has said that a series of deadly bombings in Texas were carried out by “sick people”, and also pledged justice for the victims. […]
Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
Source: MSN News Sydney Maki and Alexandria Sage An Uber self-driving car hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Arizona, police said on Monday, marking the first fatality […]
The Real Reason You Procrastinate
Source: Time By ANDREW SANTELLA March 19, 2018 IDEAS Andrew Santella is the author of Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me. This article would […]
Canada Struggles as It Opens Its Arms to Victims of ISIS
Source: The Washington Post By CATHERINE PORTER CALGARY, Alberta — As leader of one of Canada’s largest refugee agencies, Fariborz Birjandian, a refugee himself, has years of experience welcoming the world’s […]
After Documenting Nazi Crimes, A French Priest Exposes ISIS Attacks On Yazidis
Source: NPR BY ELEANOR BEARDSLEY Patrick Desbois, a Roman Catholic priest, has spent the last 15 years investigating and uncovering the details of Nazi massacres across Eastern Europe and Russia, crimes […]
Cardinal Keith O’Brien dies after fall
Source: BBC News Cardinal Keith O’Brien, formerly the Catholic Church’s most senior cleric in Britain, has died at the age of 80. The cardinal, who resigned as Archbishop of St Andrews […]
Decaying notion of one Ummah
Source: ET A few days ago, the whole world witnessed the epitome of political hypocrisy when the chief propagandist of a Muslim travel ban was warmly welcomed by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Islam. As a result, the Saudi-government invited taunts on social media for allegedly honouring […]
Jailed Palestinian teen in good spirits ahead of closed trial, father says
DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL In this Feb. 13, 2018 file photo, Palestinian protest icon Ahed Tamimi is in a courtroom at the Ofer military prison near Jerusalem. (AP […]
Ambitious policies of Saudi Arabia and the Emiratis
MUHITTIN ATAMAN @MuhittinAtaman After the Arab revolutions and insurgencies started, all strong republican regimes, which were known as the main carriers of Arab nationalism, collapsed. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began to claim the leadership of the splintering Arab world. These two states tried to reverse […]