Poland’s Sunday trading ban takes effect
Source: The Guardian Catholic church welcomes law that begins with ban on two Sundays a month, extending to all in 2020 A Polish law banning almost all trade on Sundays […]
Brazilian prosecutors sue to shut church over forced labor
Source: Associated Press By PETER PRENGAMAN, SARAH DiLORENZO and MITCH WEISS SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian labor prosecutors have filed suit to shut down a church and school with ties […]
Tunisian women march for equal inheritance rights
Source: Reuters ByTarek Amara 2 MIN READ TUNIS (Reuters) – Hundreds of women took to the streets in the Tunisian capital on Saturday to demand equal inheritance rights as men, […]
Ethiopian-Israelis decry family separation as discriminatory
Source: Associated Press By TIA GOLDENBERG Mar. 10, 2018 JERUSALEM (AP) — Zemenech Bililin has not seen her sisters in more than a decade, since she immigrated to Israel from […]
‘Punish a Muslim Day’ Letters Rattle U.K. Communities
Source: The New York Times LONDON — The anonymous letters arrived this weekend in plain white envelopes with second-class stamps, and were sent to people in at least six communities […]
A Catholic bishop and his rural Chinese parish worry about a deal between Beijing and the Vatican
Source: The Washington Post By Emily Rauhala March 11 Email the author Catholics from nearby villages pray and chant in Bobei Catholic Church in Guangdong province, China, on the morning of March 4, […]
Pakistan activists say court ruling threatens minorities
Source: Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Rights activists in Pakistan expressed concern Sunday over a court ruling that would require people to declare their religion on all official documents, saying […]
Judge tosses convicted B.C. polygamists’ constitutional challenge
Source: CBC News A judge in British Columbia has ruled that Canada’s polygamy laws are constitutional, rejecting the argument from two B.C. polygamists who claimed the law violated their charter […]
Being Sleepy During the Day Could Be a Warning Sign of Alzheimer’s
Source: Time By ALICE PARK Researchers know that a condition as complicated as Alzheimer’s can’t be traced to a single or simple cause. Genetic factors contribute to the degenerative brain disorder […]
Four Muslim MPs receive suspicious packages at Westminster
Police say parcels contained ‘low-level noxious’ substance and letters advocating violence against Muslims Jessica Elgot Political correspondent @jessicaelgot Tue 13 Mar 2018 Shares 79 Rupa Huq has been MP for […]
Acts of Faith Sweeping comments by Trump’s State Dept. pick about Islam have long worried Muslim advocates
by Michelle Boorstein March 13 2018 Mike Pompeo (left) at a confirmation hearing to be CIA director. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) Rex Tillerson during a daily press briefing at […]
Muslim Cyber Army: a ‘fake news’ operation designed to derail Indonesia’s leader
Police in Indonesia make arrests as Guardian investigation reveals fake Twitter accounts and violent propaganda Kate Lamb in Jakarta Tue 13 Mar 2018 A screengrab from the Muslim Cyber Army […]
Forbidden truth: Ahmadis in the social fabric of Pakistan
Commentary / Insight “The forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo — that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply […]
Playing politics with the dead
Mar 11,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Israel has now extended its oppression of the Palestinians to their dead, when the Israeli Knesset adopted a draconian legislation that won 48 votes […]
Trump fires chief diplomat Tillerson after clashes, taps Pompeo
By Reuters – Mar 13,2018 -JORDAN TIMES FILE PHOTO: A combination photo shows U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (L) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, March 8, 2018, and Central Intelligence […]
Can Artificial Intelligence have Consciousness — A Quranic Perspective?
Source: The Muslim Sunrise, the very first Muslim quarterly of North America: The Muslim Sunrise, Spring 2018 volume Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The […]
The Muslim Sunrise Publishes a New Volume on Spirituality and Human Soul
Editorial Source: The Muslim Sunrise, the very first Muslim quarterly of North America: The Muslim Sunrise, Spring 2018 volume All the world faiths have spirituality as an essential quality to achieve […]
German arson attacks: community centre the latest in string of hits targeting Turks
Over the weekend mosques were razed by Molotoc cocktails in Berlin PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 13 March, 2018, Agence France-Presse 8 Mar 2018 German security agencies are on alert for signs […]
Zamzam renovation work to be completed next month
Saudi Gazette report MAKKAH – Prince Abdullah Bin Bandar, acting emir of Makkah, on Monday inspected the ongoing renovation work of the Zamzam well in Makkah. About 90 percent of […]
Another controversial decision
The judgement itself is in violation of Article 5, since it gives the impression of bias and partiality against a specific community Yasser Latif Hamdani@theRealYLH March 12, 2018 The second Amendment to the Pakistani Constitution of 1973 was the last nail in the coffin of Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Pakistan. The […]