Vegetative-state patient responds to therapy
Source: BBC News By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Image copyrightCORAZZOL ET ALImage captionTests show the man’s brain activity before (L) and after (R) the treatment A man […]
Prince Harry and Trudeau’s photographer are lookalikes
Source: BBC News Prince Harry has found his Canadian doppelgänger and it is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s official photographer. Adam Scotti was photographing his boss at the Invictus Games over […]
Uber London loses licence to operate
Source: BBC News Uber will not be issued a new private hire licence, Transport for London (TfL) has said. TfL concluded the ride-hailing app firm was not fit and proper […]
In Pakistan, once-fringe Islamist radicals are making their way into mainstream politics
Source: The Washington Post By Pamela Constable September 24 ISLAMABAD — One candidate was from a banned group, its leader under house arrest for past ties to armed militants. The other was from […]
Stabbing of surgeon at Manchester mosque treated as hate crime
Source: The Guardian By Mattha Busby Dr Nasser Kurdy suffers stab wound in neck while arriving for evening prayers at Altrincham mosque Altrincham’s Islamic centre. Police said they are treating the […]
Mexico quake leaves country’s historic churches battered
Source: Associated Press By CHRISTINE ARMARIO and DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS MEXICO CITY (AP) — Our Lady of Angels Church has survived several major earthquakes, but Tuesday’s magnitude 7.1 shake proved to […]
USA: North Carolina Church Coerced Congregants Into Unemployment Fraud Read more at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/09/busted-north-carolina-church-coerced-congregants-unemployment-fraud
Follow the money: A North Carolina Church coerced congregants into filing fraudulent unemployment claims so members could keep tithing. (giving chanda) According to multiple reports, Jane Whaley, 77, founder and pastor at Word of Faith Fellowship church, told church members they should file fraudulent unemployment claims so that they could […]
Jews around world alarmed by far-right breakthrough in Germany
Source: Reuters BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) – Jewish groups in Europe and the United States expressed alarm at the success of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Sunday’s parliamentary election and urged other parties not to form alliances with it. But a leading member of the AfD, which won 12.6 […]
New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries
Source: The New York Times By MICHAEL D. SHEAR WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday issued a new order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, […]
Fighting Pakistan’s food waste, one lunch box at a time
AMNA EHTESHAM KHAISHGI | Published — Monday 25 September 2017 LAHORE: Every afternoon for 20 years, Huzaifa Ahmad’s mother opened the door of her home in Lahore and fed dozens of people who had nothing to eat. “All of us in the family were instructed not to take more […]
50 years on, stereotypes of Arab world still linger
Columns Chris Doyle | Published — Sunday 24 September 2017 50 years on, stereotypes of Arab world still linger Fifty years ago, an opinion poll found that 98 percent of the British population knew little or nothing about the Arab world. This was a prime concern for the newly created […]
Why Muslims should not fear science
Source: Arab News By Nidhal Guessoum, who is a professor of physics and astronomy at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. A new trend has developed and grown fast in the Arab world: People rejecting basic scientific knowledge on the grounds that it comes from the West (which “cannot be […]
Jewish groups alarmed over anti-migrant AfD’s entry into German Parliament
ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN Published20 hours ago Demonstrators protest against the anti-immigration party AfD after German general election (Bundestagswahl) in Berlin, Germany, September 24, 2017.(REUTERS Photo) Major Jewish groups have expressed alarm and dismay that the anti-migrant Alternative for Germany has won seats in Germany’s parliament. German Central Council of Jews […]
Iraqi govt asks KRG to hand over border posts, airports over referendum
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES ISTANBUL A Turkish military helicopter flies near the Habur border gate between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdish region in Şırnak province, Turkey. (AA Photo) The Iraqi government asked the Kurdish Regional Government on Sunday to hand over international border posts and its international airports, retaliating […]
Where Psychiatric Care Is Scarce, Religious Institutions Are Stepping In
Source: Huffington Post “We don’t have the resources to meet the demand through the public system of care. I wish we did.” By Lindsay Holmes, Beth Shelburne 09/20/2017 05:46 am […]
Mexicans Turn To Their Faith As Country Recovers From Earthquake
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla, Chris McGonigal Days after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit central Mexico, residents are in part turning to prayer and spirituality to cope with the devastation. […]
President Trump Has a New Travel Ban
Source: Time By Jill Colvin and Matthew Lee / AP Updated: 4:53 AM ET | Originally published: 7:55 PM ET (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation imposing […]
‘Mass Hindu grave’ found in Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Source: BBC News The Myanmar authorities have accused Muslim Rohingya militants of killing 28 Hindu villagers whose bodies were allegedly found in a mass grave. The army says the bodies […]
Conservative Roman Catholic theologians accuse pope of spreading heresy
Source: Chicago Tribune Several dozen tradition-minded Roman Catholic theologians, priests and academics have formally accused Pope Francis of spreading heresy with his 2016 opening to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics. In a […]
‘Homosexual Conduct Should Be Illegal,’ and 5 Other Things GOP Senate Candidate Roy Moore Has Said
Source: Time BY Nash Jenkins Sep 22, 2017 Republicans in Alabama will go to the polls Tuesday to choose their party’s candidate for the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions […]