Source: Reuters BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) – Authorities in the Indonesian province of Aceh have ordered Muslim flight attendants to wear headscarves when flying into the ultra-conservative Islamic region, officials […]
Source: Economic Times By Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury NEW DELHI:Prime Minister Narendra Modi will witness video link to ground breaking (‘shila pujan’) for the first ever temple in Abu Dhabi during […]
Source: Religion News Service By Fredrick Nzwili | January 30, 2018 Men stand outside the main entrance of the Presbyterian University of Eastern Africa on Jan. 30, 2018, in Githunguri, Kenya. Kenya’s minister for […]
Source: BBC News An eight-year-old boy wearing a Jewish skullcap, or kippa, has been attacked in a suburb of the French capital, Paris, in what officials suspect is the latest […]
Source: The Guardian Three young Americans who are playing themselves in a Clint Eastwood-directed movie about how they foiled a terrorist attack in France say their actions were guided by God. The […]
Source: Associated By VANESSA GERA WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A diplomatic dispute between Poland and Israel over pending legislation that would outlaw blaming Poland for the crimes of the Holocaust has led to an outburst of anti-Semitic comments in Poland, including some in the government-controlled media. Poland’s lower house of […]
Source: Boston Globe By Cristela Guerra GLOBE STAFF JANUARY 30, 2018 On Muslim Lobby Day at the State House, some of the most outspoken, curious, and determined activists weren’t yet old enough to […]
Source: Associated Press By VANESSA GERA WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to keep open the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, marking a formal […]
How One Scientist Helped the World Go Nuclear By Catherine Collins and Douglas Frantz On February 4, 2004, the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer (A.Q.) Khan, then famous for his role […]
Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan, a leading professor at Oxford University, was detained on Wednesday in France, where he is facing allegations of rape. French police on Wednesday detained prominent Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, a legal source said, months after two women filed rape charges against him. Ramadan was summoned for questioning […]
Source: Time By AMANDA MACMILLAN January 30, 2018 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. That almond milk latte may be delicious, but a study just published in the Journal of Food Science and […]
Source: Time By FLORA CARR January 30, 2018 Bill Gates has revealed for the first time that his father suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. Gates discussed his personal reasons for investing in the […]
Source: BBC News By Stav Dimitropoulos 29 January 2018 Giannis Bellonias was standing on the edge of a craggy cliffside in Imerovigli, a village built on the apex of Santorini’s […]
Source: BBC News By Shoaib Sharifi and Louise Adamou Taliban fighters, whom US-led forces spent billions of dollars trying to defeat, are now openly active in 70% of Afghanistan, a […]
Source: The New York Times By THOMAS ERDBRINK Inspired perhaps by a “White Wednesday” campaign, several Iranian women have publicly taken off their head scarves and waved them on the end […]
Source: Reuters BY Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) – Instead of blaming others Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should take responsibility for Iran’s economic and political shortcomings, an opposition leader under house arrest said in a letter published on Tuesday. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gestures as he speaks, […]
Source: Associated Press BY BISWAJEET BANERJEE LUCKNOW, India (AP) — A senior cleric at an influential Islamic seminary in northern India has issued a religious decree saying that Muslim women should […]
Source: The Guardian BY Amrit Dhillon in Delhi A Muslim woman in the southern Indian state of Kerala has received death threats after leading prayers for a mixed congregation in an act […]
Source: BBC News The Republic of Ireland’s decision to hold a referendum in May on whether to reform the country’s near-total ban on abortion has triggered strong reaction. Voters will be asked whether they want to keep the constitutional restrictions or scrap them, allowing MPs to legislate on the sensitive […]
Source: The New York Times By IAN JOHNSON Photo Easter service at the government-sanctioned West Beijing Catholic Church. About half of the 10 to 12 million Catholics in China worship in […]