Harvey Weinstein: New York state sues Weinstein Company
Source: BBC News New York prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against The Weinstein Company, alleging that the studio failed to protect staff from Harvey Weinstein. The film producer is facing […]
‘Not the right kind of Catholic’: Private schoolteacher fired days after same-sex wedding
Source: Washington Post By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. and Moriah Balingit Jocelyn Morffi and Natasha Hass had booked the Key Largo Lighthouse estate for three days starting Feb. 2, turning their wedding day into […]
Muslims like me don’t have theological beef with evangelicals. It’s the prejudice against us that’s the problem.
Source: The Washington Post By Ismail Royer February 12 fa(iStock) Last month, my wife and I joined a small group of Muslims and thousands of Christians at the annual March for Life […]
PM Modi launches project for first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi
Source: Times Of India DUBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday officially launched the foundation stone-laying ceremony for the first Hindu temple in the capital of the UAE, home to […]
First Pakistani woman from Hindu minority to become lawmaker
Source: Associated Press By ADIL JAWAD KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The first woman from Pakistan’s tiny minority Hindu community is poised to become lawmaker next month, after the country’s opposition […]
The Female Quran Experts Fighting Radical Islam in Morocco
Source: The Atlantic Morocco is in a region vulnerable to terrorist recruitment, but it hasn’t had a significant attack on its own soil since 2011, when terrorists bombed a Marrakesh […]
Long robes not necessary attire for Saudi women: senior cleric
Source: Reuters DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi women need not wear the abaya – the loose-fitting, full-length robes symbolic of religious faith – a senior member of the top Muslim clerical […]
Rob Porter, and Mormonism’s #MeToo Moment
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke and MJ Lee, CNN Updated 0639 GMT (1439 HKT) February 11, 2018 (CNN) Colbie Holderness says she met Rob Porter at a Mormon student congregation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lifelong […]
Giving up control of Brussels mosque, Saudi Arabia sends a signal
Source: Reuters By Alissa de Carbonnel, Stephen Kalin BRUSSELS/RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has agreed to give up control of Belgium’s largest mosque in a sign that it is trying to […]
Emmanuel Macron to propose reorganization of Islam in France
Source: Politico The French president said he wants to ‘preserve national cohesion and the possibility of having free consciousness.’ By GIULIA PARAVICINI French President Emmanuel Macron wants to reorganize Islam in […]
Key facts about black immigrants in the U.S.
Source: Pew Research Center BY MONICA ANDERSON AND GUSTAVO LÓPEZ The United States has long had a sizable black population because of the transatlantic slave trade beginning in the 16th century. But significant voluntary black […]
Migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean sent a record amount of money to their home countries in 2016
Source: Pew Research Center BY ABBY BUDIMAN AND PHILLIP CONNOR (Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images) Remittance flows decreased worldwide for a second consecutive year in 2016, the […]
Most displaced Syrians are in the Middle East, and about a million are in Europe
Source: Pew Research Center BY PHILLIP CONNOR Displaced Syrians from Deir Ezzor head to refugee camps on the outskirts of Raqqa on Sept. 24 as Syrian fighters backed by U.S. special […]
Jennie Willoughby: ‘President Trump Will Not Diminish My Truth’
Source: Time Willoughby is a former school teacher whose passion is the resiliency of the human spirit. She writes atBorneBackCeaselessly.com On Friday, a friend and I watched as the President of […]
Drugs, Alcohol and Suicide Are Causing Life Expectancy in America to Drop Dramatically
Source: Time By AMANDA MACMILLAN February 8, 2018 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. U.S. life expectancy has decreased for the second year in a row, and an editorial in theBMJ points to […]
A prelude to wider conflict
Feb 12,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL With downing of an Israeli warplane on Saturday by Syrian air defences, followed by more Israeli strikes at Syrian and Iranian military targets in Syria, the stage could be set for further escalation of tensions between Israel and Syria that could extend to Iranian military presence […]
Classrooms built by refugees for refugees win world architecture award
Simple, effective and low-cost project helps save a generation of school dropouts By Camille Dupire – Feb 12,2018 – JORDAN TIMES ‘The Dome’ as the residents call it, serves as […]
Would the teachings of Islam really prevent sexual abuse scandals?
Source: Christian Concern The Independent published an astonishing article this week, entitled: “How the teachings of Islam could help us prevent more sexual abuse scandals”. It is written by Qasim Rashid, an Ahmadiyya Muslim writer and commentator. This comes after revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s appalling behaviour have been headline news almost continuously […]
How the teachings of Islam could help us prevent more sexual abuse scandals
Source: The Independent By Qasim Rashid Harvey Weinstein is just another case of a powerful man abusing women because we live in a society that lets him get away with […]
Britain’s first female Black Rod starts her new job in the House of Lords in a landmark moment in Parliament’s 650-year history
The first female Black Rod in the House of Lords in the 650-year history of the role has been approved by the Queen. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5383185/Britains-female-Black-Rod-starts-House-Lords.html#ixzz56ykFR5XV