Faisal Mahmood- Dhaka, Bangladesh – A court in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has sentenced former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to jail in a corruption case. Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Special Court-5 on Thursday sentenced the two-time former prime minister to five years rigorous imprisonment. He read out selected parts of the 632-page […]
Families allege thousands of Yemeni Jewish children were abducted after state’s founding Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem Children were allegedly stolen and given to Jewish families of western origin in Israel […]
By Reuters – Feb 08,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Members of the self-styled Libyan National Army, loyal to the country’s east strongman Khalifa Haftar, patrol the roads leading into the eastern […]
Source: The Guardian A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump. By Andrew Rice Forty […]
Source: The New Yorker By Robin Wright It was the quietest protest Iran has ever witnessed. Vida Movahed, a thirty-one-year-old mother of a toddler, stood atop a large utility box on Tehran’s busy Enghelab […]
Source: The New York Times BY Yi-Zheng Lian On Feb. 1, the same day that new repressive regulations of religion went into force in China, the Vatican took a deep bow […]
Source: Religion News Service By Christopher Lamb | February 7, 2018 Osorno Bishop Juan Barros, left, in Iquique, Chile, on Jan. 18, 2018. Pope Francis in Lima, Peru, on Jan. 21, 2018. (Left: […]
Source: The Guardian Agence France-Presse in Stockholm A woman wearing a niqab. It is not known how many women wear the niqab and burqa in Denmark. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters The […]
Source: NPR BY JAMES DOUBEK Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he will offer a national apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse before the end of the year. It […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By Francis X. Rocca Feb. 7, 2018 8:00 a.m. ET ROME—Pope Francis’ overture to Communist China echoes the Vatican’s conciliatory approach to Soviet-bloc states during much […]
Source: The Washington Post By Tracy Jan February 7 Email the author Macy’s is the latest U.S. brand to tap into the growing Islamic clothing market. (Macy’s) Macy’s is launching a “modest” fashion […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and EVA VERGARA VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican’s sex-crimes expert is changing plans and will fly to New York to take in-person testimony […]
Source: Boston Globe By Alanna Durkin Richer ASSOCIATED PRESS FEBRUARY 07, 2018 BOSTON (AP) — A social media monitoring tool used by the Boston Police Department to identify potential threats swept up […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey President Trump spoke about America’s religious tradition and the importance of God at the National Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 8. (Reuters) President Trump delivered […]
“If We all fallow the teachings of our own religion, peace will be achieved” said Imam Shamshad of Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Report by Dr Abdul Qudoos Shahid, Dayton, Ohio. In accordance with MLK activities in January, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Dayton Ohio collaborated with local Jewish & Christian Communities to […]
Epigraph: Say Muhammad, “O My servants who have committed excesses against their own souls! despair not of the mercy of Allah, surely Allah forgives all sins. Indeed, He is Most […]
Reuters International This content was published on February 8, 2018 4:23 PMFeb 8, 2018 – 16:23 Hussein al-Khalaf, 13, reacts as he sits in a classroom at […]
King holds talks with Pakistani premier, army commander in Islamabad By JT – Feb 08,2018 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah holds talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan […]
By AFP – Feb 08,2018 -JORDAN TIMES Iranian women wearing hijab walk down a street in the capital Tehran, on Wednesday (AFP photo) TEHRAN — A spate […]
Source: BBC News India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu is poised to become a global leader in wind power, according to a new report. But first the state must overcome […]