DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL The combined photos of Elvan Koçak’s daughters who appeared on Adnan Oktar’s television program. A Turkish court issued a temporary restraining order against television personality and […]
Source: Religion New Service SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Pope Francis accused victims of Chile’s most notorious pedophile of slander, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Alex Horton The Negev desert was imposing, but Moses sent 12 scouts to survey the rolling dunes in what is now Israel to search for sanctuary, […]
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI CAIRO (AP) — The Palestinian president on Wednesday again blasted Donald Trump in a fiery and emotional speech, saying the U.S. leader’s decision to […]
Source: MSN By Tiffany Moran Since 1990, November has been celebrated as Native American Heritage Month in the United States, in reverence of the history of the country’s earliest settlers. […]
Source: MSN If President Donald Trump and the Republican Party were already worried about defending their majorities in the House and Senate come November, they will now have another major factor to […]
Source: BBC News By Sarah Keating 18 January 2018 This story is from The Boy Who Stayed Awake for Eleven Days, an episode of Witness produced and presented by Lucy Burns. To listen […]
Source: BBC News China’s economy grew by 6.9% in 2017 according to official data – the first time in seven years the pace of growth has picked up. The figure […]
Source: CNN By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN (CNN)A year into Donald Trump’s presidency, global confidence in US leadership has fallen to a new low, according to an opinion survey conducted across 134 […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer January 18 at 5:54 AM The spire of the Salt Lake City Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is seen in […]
Source: Religion News Service By John Gehring (RNS) — If being “pro-life” only means opposing abortion, we need a better conversation about the myriad ways human life is threatened today. On Friday […]
Source: Religion And Politics It was June 12, 2016, and a man named Omar Mateen had just opened fire inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people and […]
Source: BBC News India’s Supreme Court has cleared the release of controversial Bollywood film Padmavat, and overturned the decision by four states to ban its screening. It has been approved […]
Source: Religion News Service By Michele Chabin | January 17, 2018 JERUSALEM (RNS) — Moshe Lifshitz says he always felt motivated to serve in the Israeli army even though, as an ultra-Orthodox Jew, […]
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent, BBC News Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Scientists have taken a step towards one of the biggest goals in medicine – a […]
Syria cannot countenance Kurdish presence on its territory and Turkey cannot tolerate a Kurdish enclave along its southern border, however secular, liberal and socialist it claims (not without reason) to be Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices Thursday 18 January 2018 Colonel Thomas Veale has had the unenviable task of […]
CONAKRY, Guinea: A Saudi Arabian preacher was shot dead in Guinea’s east after organizing a prayer service that angered some villagers in the majority-Muslim West African country, local sources said Wednesday. The man, who was a member of a mission building mosques in Upper Guinea, was killed on Tuesday […]
Toronto is the only Canadian city on Amazon Inc.’s short list of 20 candidates for a second North American headquarters.http://business.financialpost.com/technology/toronto-on-shortlist-for-amazons-new-headquarters-hq2 The e-commerce giant received 238 applications for the opportunity and says narrowing it down to 20 was very tough. The other Canadian communities that applied but didn’t make the short list include Hamilton, Ottawa-Gatineau, Sault […]
By Moin Qazi, Nagpur, India (moinqazi123@gmail.com) One of the most contentious issues that have vexed the minds of Muslims is the concept of interest in the modern-day economy. The Islamic clerics (ulema) have exhibited an ambivalent stand on major issues concerning Islamic finance and on most occasions preferred to diplomatically […]
Hank unravels the fascinating yarn of how the world came to use so-called Arabic numerals — from the scholarship of ancient Hindu mathematicians, to Muslim scientist Al-Khwarizmi, to the […]