Jan 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Marwan M. Obeidat Up to 1699, the year that witnessed the culmination of the centuries-long Ottoman threat to Europe, when the Treaty of Karlowitz between the Ottoman Empire and Austria, Poland and Venice was signed, it was through hostility and suspicion the […]
Jan 03,2018 – Jordan Times – Michael Jansen The Trump-Netanyahu nexus is, on the basic level, bad news for Palestine, Israel, the US, the region and the international community. Trump’s latest outrage is his threat to cut financial aid to the Palestinian Authority and to UNRWA unless Ramallah returns to […]
January 5, 2018 Islamic News NO fewer than 20 couples were joined in marriage at the 65th annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria, held in Ilaro, Ogun State. […]
“Today, the Department of State announces that the Secretary of State re-designated Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan as Countries of Particular Concern […]
Source: Associated Press By JON GAMBRELL DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A hard-line cleric leading Friday prayers in Iran’s capital called on the Islamic Republic to build its own […]
Source: Th Wall Street Journal By Reuel Marc Gerecht Jan. 4, 2018 7:11 p.m. ET Coverage of the recent tumult in the Islamic Republic of Iran has focused on how […]
Source: The Washington Post By Noah Berlatsky January 5 at 6:00 AM Kristen Bell stars in the comedy “The Good Place.” (Colleen Hayes/NBC) Theologians and other thinkers have described God in several […]
Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston (RNS) — It may soon be a criminal offense to be an atheist in Egypt. Shortly before New Year’s Day, the Egyptian Parliament considered […]
Source: The Guardian I had my last drink five years ago, in the early hours of the morning on 1 January 2013. I think it might have been around 2am. I […]
Source : Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston | January 2, 2018 (RNS) — The Lancaster Mennonite Conference, the largest group of Mennonite congregations in the U.S., has officially separated from the broader Mennonite […]
Source: BBC News By Adrienne Bernhard Rome’s ultra-wealthy took weekend trips here to party. Powerful statesmen built luxurious villas on its beach, with heated spas and mosaic-tiled pools where they […]
Source: CNN by Ivana Kottasová Germany’s tough new social media law was meant to rid Twitter and Facebook of hateful and illegal content. But critics say that at just 96 […]
Source: CNN By Susan Scutti, CNN (CNN)Children who eat fish once a week or more sleep better and score higher, on average, on IQ tests than children who never eat […]
JANUARY 4, 2018 BY MICHAEL STONE, 2 COMMENTS Aisha was a child bride: Under Islamic law girls as young as nine may marry, according to Turkey’s religious affairs state agency. Earlier this week Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs – or Diyanet – which is responsible for administering religious institutions and […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Religion Reporter, HuffPost “Anyone … can see that the purpose of this is to promote Christianity,” said a lawyer for the legal branch of […]
Posted on September 5, 2014 by Ismaili Gnostic The Imam’s word on the Faith is taken as an absolute rule. Every Ismaili is expected to accept it. Imam Shah Karim […]
Isn’t the man in charge of the CIA’s Iran operations taking a serious interest in the latest events in Iran? Surely he is. That’s his job, isn’t it? BY […]
By Thomas Stephens This content was published on January 4, 2018 (Keystone) Swiss citizenship is highly sought after – and correspondingly hard to get. After changes introduced on January […]
Pakistan Wasay Ibrahim January 4, 2018 It has been seven years since Salman Taseer was assassinated by his own security guard for raising his voice against Pakistan’s draconian blasphemy laws […]
Source: Ismaili Gnosis The prayer-form that most Muslims use today – called Namaz or Salah – was not taught by the Prophet Muhammad himself; it was actually derived and interpreted […]