Anniversary: Ibn Rushd
Full name: Abū al-Walīd Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd Arabic name: أبو الوليد محمد بن أحمد بن رشد Latin name: Averroes Date of birth: 1126 Date of death: 10 Dec, […]
Organization of Islamic Cooperation says no compromise on Jerusalem
Arab News | Published — Tuesday 5 December 2017 JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has deplored attempts to change the historical and legal status of the occupied city of Jerusalem. In an extraordinary meeting of the OIC’s Committee of Permanent Representatives on Monday, a statement was issued expressing […]
Travel agencies can now issue Saudi tourist visas
ARAB NEWS | Published — Tuesday 5 December 2017 JEDDAH/RIYADH: Travel agencies in category D can now issue visas for tourists and for educational or medical treatment purposes inside and outside the Kingdom. The Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) in Jeddah has issued the first license allowing […]
Syrian boy wins Children’s Peace Prize for building refugee school in Lebanon
Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A teenage Syrian refugee won a prestigious international prize on Monday for building a school and providing an education to hundreds of children […]
What the Russian Revolution can teach us about the Middle East today
The Bolshevik demonisation of the ‘White’ Russians in the ferocious anti-religious, anti-capitalist posters on display in Paris at the Musee de l’Armee are not dissimilar to the “war against terror” which Bashar al-Assad and the Russians think they are fighting in Syria today Robert Fisk Paris The casualty figures don’t […]
Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s former leader, killed in Sanaa
Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed amid fighting between his supporters and their former allies, the Houthi rebel movement. Officials from Mr Saleh’s General People’s Congress party […]
Taiwan rainbow ‘lasts record-breaking nine hours’
Source: BBC News By Cindy Sui A rainbow may be a wondrous sight but for most people it’s also a fairly fleeting one. But last week, professors and students of […]
Pope Francis: popular worldwide, but some young conservatives question his approach
Source: BY Peter Smith STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — The Catholic university overlooking the Ohio River here, with a campus abounding in images of St. Francis of Assisi and a replica of his medieval […]
Pakistan is making concessions to religious extremists. What’s the cost?
Source: The Washington Post By Pamela Constable December 3 at 7:00 AM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In the past 10 days, two dramatic events — the government’s capitulation to a violent protest by radical […]
Motives in Egypt’s Deadliest Terrorist Attack: Religion and Revenge
Source: The New York Times By NOUR YOUSSEF CAIRO — One day in early November, a small group of elders in a dusty town in the northern Sinai Peninsula handed over […]
Canada: University student al-Hasanawi shot dead
A 19-year-old had just left a neighbourhood mosque and stepped forward to intervene in a dispute when two men turned their attention to him. A 19-year-old “Good Samaritan” was shot dead in central Hamilton after trying to stop two men from harassing an older man on the street outside his […]
Greek Orthodox Church Sells Land In Israel, Worrying Both Israelis And Palestinians
Source: NPR By DANIEL ESTRIN Secretive real estate deals in the Holy Land are putting one of Jerusalem’s most powerful and ancient churches in the spotlight. The Greek Orthodox Church calls […]
How Ireland Moved to the Left: ‘The Demise of the Church’
Source: The New York Times By LIAM STACK DEC. 2, 2017 Photo A vigil in Dublin in October commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Savita Halappanavar, who died after she […]
Gay prayer for Prince George remarks ‘unkind and destructive’
Source: BBC News A senior Anglican minister has been criticised for saying people should pray for Prince George to be gay to help the Church of England recognise same-sex marriage. […]
‘We don’t own this earth’: The Biblical case for protecting the environment
Source: Indy Star “I don’t consider myself an environmentalist.” That is perhaps an odd statement coming from someone who is an unabashed — you could say devout — leader of […]
Dalai Lama to Obama: ‘You are young and can do a lot’
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)Former US President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama on Friday in India, where they discussed “compassion and altruism,” according to a […]
Pakistan: Bhutto and Jamaat Ahmadiyya
http://niazamana.com/2017/12/bhutto-and-jamaat-e-ahmadyya/ بھٹو اور جماعت احمدیہ December 1, 2017 1:37 am · 12 comments آصف جیلانی یہ ان دنوں کی بات ہے جب ابھی آئین کی دوسری ترمیم منظور نہیں ہوئی تھی جس کے تحت احمدیوں کو غیر مسلم قرار دیا گیا تھا، اور اس سے بھی بہت پہلے جب ذوالفقار علی […]
Holy Spirit Cathedral is a national monument – Archbishop Palmer-Buckle
Source. Ghana Web Most Reverend Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle, the Accra Metropolitan Archbishop of the Catholic Church has said the Holy Spirit Cathedral is not just for Catholics but a national monument. He said the Cathedral since its establishment in 1956 had been the venue for national religious activities and was […]
What Does the Quran Mean: O Mankind We Created You From a Male and a Female?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times For more than 1400 years, since the revelation of the Quran, all the Muslims have interpreted the verse, […]
Mehdi Hasan Rips Thomas Friedman’s “Nauseating” Column in NYT Praising Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince
StoryNovember 30, 2017 Watch Full Show Guests Mehdi Hasan award-winning British journalist and broadcaster at Al Jazeera English. He is host of the Al Jazeera interview program “UpFront” and a […]