Source: Wall Street Journal By Ben Otto and Anita Rachman Updated Feb. 28, 2018 12:51 p.m. ET JAKARTA—Two Indonesian Christians were publicly whipped for gambling, a rare case of non-Muslims being punished […]
Source: BBC News A Hindu temple ritual in which boys aged between five and 12 years are pierced with metal hooks is stirring controversy in India after a senior police […]
Source: BBC News About 700 churches have been closed down in Rwanda for failing to comply with building regulations and for noise pollution. Most of them are small Pentecostal churches. […]
Source: Reuters BY Antonio De la Jara SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Archbishop Charles Scicluna, who is in Chile investigating accusations that a bishop had covered up the sexual abuse of minors, […]
Source: Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — A Swiss government spokesman says Pope Francis will visit Geneva in June. Federal Council spokesman Andre Simonazzi says details of the June 21 visit […]
Source: Associated Press By NEBI QENA JERUSALEM (AP) — The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem reopened early on Wednesday after Israeli officials suspended a plan to impose taxes […]
Source: The Guardian BY Simon Tisdall A bold plan to draw the Taliban into a binding peace process looks like a last, desperate gamble by Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan’s embattled president, to […]
Source: Reuters BY Hamid Shalizi, James Mackenzie KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered recognition of the Taliban as a legitimate political group on Wednesday as part of a proposed […]
Rahimullah Yusufzai | Published — Thursday 1 March 2018 Though the Afghan government has offered unconditional peace talks to the Afghan Taliban in the past, President Ashraf Ghani was more specific with this week’s announcement as he mentioned a number of steps Kabul would take once prospective negotiations begin and […]
AFP | Published — Thursday 1 March 2018 LONDON: Prince William will be the first senior British royal to make an official visit to the Palestinian Territories and Israel, […]
New York: The city of New York has agreed to pay $180,000 (Dh661,000) to three Muslim women forced by police to remove their headscarves to have mug shots taken, officials said Wednesday. Each of the women is to receive $60,000 after the settlements were finalized in a Brooklyn federal court […]
In 2003, the Armenian newspaper Agos, whose editor Hrant Dink was assassinated outside his office in 2007, reported that the Turkish government was secretly coding minorities in registers Robert Fisk […]
By AFP – Feb 28,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Tehran, Iran — President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday said Iran is ready to discuss regional security issues with its Gulf Arab neighbours […]
By AFP – Feb 28,2018 – JORDAN TIMES A general view of the Edicule of the Tomb at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old […]
Feb 28,2018 -JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen Donald Trump’s December 6th decision to shift the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and his announcement last week that the ambassador […]
NEWFOUNDLAND, Pa. — Hundreds of crown-wearing worshipers clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged or renewed wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania church on Wednesday, prompting […]
Source: Telegraph UK Holi, a traditional Hindu festival which celebrates the beginning of spring as well as the triumph of good over evil, begins tomorrow. It is best known around […]
cosmosmagazine.com: NON FICTION Light from the East: How the science of Medieval Islam helped to shape the Western world, by John Freely I.B. Taurus (2015) In their frustration and disgust at the barbarity of the modern day Islamic extremists, many commentators in the West, groping for a context in which to […]
Source: The Washington Post By Courtland Milloy Columnist It seems as if God is everywhere now, but I’m not always sure who or what people are referring to when they talk about […]
Source: Huffington Post By J. H. McKenna, Ph.D. The word ‘cult’ is never benign in religious terminology as it is in the world of art, where Johnny Stonenoggin filmster extraordinaire […]