Most reports estimate 1,500 civilians have been killed in the bombardment by Russia and the Syrian government, but many more – and the Islamist fighters opposing the regime – would have died without this once […]
Source: Dawn I have been to Sargodha many times. In fact multiple times in a year, throughout my childhood. This is where my family comes from — both maternal and paternal. Despite all my trips, however, I have never visited the shrine of Naghyana in a village called Dharema, about […]
Source: CNN Russia’s UN ambassador has requested the United Nations Security Council convene a special meeting for Thursday afternoon amid an ongoing diplomatic feud with the UK that began in an English country town and has spread to include London’s allies around the world. A month after former Russian double […]
Source: The Washington Post By Jennifer Hassan April 3 at 12:34 PM Email the author The letters arrived in March. Sent anonymously to multiple communities, the letters with words in bold at the top declared that […]
Source: Associated Press By IGNATIUS SSUUNA KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda’s government has closed thousands of churches and dozens of mosques as it seeks to assert more control over a […]
Source: The New York Times By STEVEN LEE MYERS Photo Bishop Joseph Li Shan, center, who was appointed by the Chinese authorities rather than the Vatican, during a Holy Saturday Mass […]
Source: Reuters BY Christian Shepherd, Damir Sagolj YOUTONG VILLAGE, China (Reuters) – Choosing a church can be complicated in China under the rule of the officially atheist Communist Party – especially […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein, Julie Zauzmer and DeNeen L. Brown On the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder, one of the activist pastors who has tried to follow in […]
Source: The Washington Post By Avi Selk “Nobody writes a book on the correct way of parenting,” Sharron Dobbins explained to ABC 15 Arizona this week, shortly after her release from jail on a […]
Source: BBC News By Soutik Biswas India correspondent What are the most common myths and stereotypes about what Indians eat? The biggest myth, of course, is that India is a largely vegetarian […]
Source: The Atlantic By SHIRA TELUSHKIN One day in the fall of 2010, Father Anthony Messeh, then a priest at the St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church in Fairfax, Virginia, sat down […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla GARY TRAMONTINA VIA GETTY IMAGES Workers pause before removing a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of the state judicial building in Montgomery on Aug. 27, 2003. Federal […]
Source: Huffington Post By Ed Mazza Political cartoonist Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution used the Easter holiday to call out evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump. Despite Trump’s many […]
US mother gives birth to triplets after having twins- one in a million occurrence JOLIET, Illinois. (WLS) – When it comes to pregnancy, Teri Nobles has had quite a run. First she gave birth to her son, Logan, who’s 10. Then three years ago she carried twins, Marcel and Victor. […]
Source: The Guardian By Richard Adams Efforts to bar girls from wearing the hijab at primary schools were “naked racism dressed up as liberalism”, a teachers’ union conference heard as […]
Source: Dawn THE de facto Saudi ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, spoke only half the truth when he admitted in an interview to the Washington Post that his country had funded the spread of Wahhabism at the behest of Western powers to help counter the Soviet Union during the […]
by Narjas Zatat in people The 3 April has been dubbed ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ by extremists. The Met has insisted “there is no credible information to suggest there is […]
Source: Reuters BY Gul Yousafzai Quetta, Pakistan (Reuters) – The militant group Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for killing four members of a Christian family in southwestern Pakistan. A […]
Source: Associated Press By SARAH EL DEEB TEL ARBOUSH, Syria (AP) — The young men and women in traditional costumes of red, blue and white, the colors of the Assyrian […]
Source: Reuters BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) – Rights activists called on Tuesday for Indonesia’s Aceh province to release four people detained on suspicion of having homosexual sex, amid concerns over […]