Source: Religion News Service By Kimberly Winston | August 23, 2017 (RNS) — There were no burning crosses or other hijacked symbols of religion on obvious display when white nationalists descended on Charlottesville, […]
Source: The Washington Post By Anthea Butler August 23 at 6:23 PM A young boy clasps hands while demonstrators and sympathizers hear a prayer as they continued to stand at a rope […]
Source: The Guardian At seven years old, Abdul El-Sayed sat in the eye of Hurricane Andrew, the most destructive hurricane in US history until Katrina. Living near Miami, El-Sayed drank […]
Source: USA Today BY Jonathan Merritt, Opinion contributor In the wake of President Trump’s waffling on white supremacy, his supporters and advisers have abandoned him in droves. After a wave of […]
Source: BBC News Brazil’s government has abolished a vast national reserve in the Amazon to open up the area to mining. The area, covering 46,000 sq km (17,800 sq miles), […]
Source: BBC News By Simon Tulett Business reporter, BBC News, Malta Fiddling distractedly with her headscarf and in words little louder than a whisper, Amar Al-Sadi tells me Malta has […]
Source: Foreign Policy BY JUDD BIRDSALL If confirmed by the Senate to serve as the next U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback will face a daunting trifecta […]
Ayaan Hirshi Ali, NYtimes.com 2017/08/24 Since the violence in Charlottesville 10 days ago, when white supremacists left one young woman dead and 19 others injured, the Southern Poverty Law Center has hit the jackpot. The Alabama-based nonprofit is set to receive millions of dollars in donations from some of the […]
Source: Translated from Jeune Afrique By Par Marion Douet and Nadoun Coulibaly His Highness the Aga Khan, spiritual leader to millions of Muslim, delivers the Jodidi Lecture, at Harvard University, on Thursday, Nov. 12, […]
Source: Vox Pope Francis leveraged his position to bring awareness to environmental issues. Now he’s doing the same for the migrant crisis. Updated by Tara Isabella Burton@NotoriousTIBtara.burton@vox.com Aug 22, 2017, 4:50pm EDT […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROM20 COMMENT The U.S. Constitution never explicitly mentions God or the divine, but the same cannot be said of the nation’s state constitutions. In fact, […]
Chiniot https://tribune.com.pk/story/1489391/man-murdered-religious-belief-disagreement/The inner view of the mosque where the incident took place. PHOTO: EXPRESS A member of Tablighi Jamaat was murdered while another was injured over disagreement about religious beliefs within Sadar police station precincts in Chiniot on Wednesday. Sadar Police Station SHO Muhammad Afzal told The Express Tribunethat 70-year-old Waliur […]
Tribune News Service New Delhi/Chandigarh, August 24http://tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/15-000-paramilitary-personnel-deployed-in-punjab-haryana-mobile-internet-to-be-suspended/456852.html More than 15,000 paramilitary personnel have been deployed in Punjab and Haryana ahead of Friday’s Dera verdict by a Panchkula court, a Union Home Ministry official said on Thursday. Meanwhile, mobile Internet and data services across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh will be suspended for […]
Source: Huffington Post By Mike Ghouse, who is committed to build a cohesive America and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. India’s Supreme court’s wrecking ball does it. India’s […]
A look into the life of Rafiq A. Tschannen, your Associate Chief Editor of The Muslim Times. (How Sergio di Mello saved my life and lost his!) (to Cyprus and […]
Source: Dawn A meeting of high-level military and political leadership is currently underway at the PM House under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi.Members of the national security meeting gathered on Thursday with the agenda to come up with a combined response to US President Donald Trump’s new […]
Source: BBC Of course Mr Trump inevitably tried to present this policy as a new departure. A conditions-based strategy means the US is involved for the long haul.Things are not going well for government forces. The Taliban hold almost half of the country and the Afghan military’s performance – other […]
A psalm of David. 1 The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. 4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley,a]”>[a] I will fear no evil, […]
Source: The Guardian BY Paul Karp Former PM rejects attorney general’s view and says Australians should vote no in postal survey if they’re ‘concerned about where our country is going’ Tony […]
Source: Time BY Charlie Campbell / Beijingg 12:53 AM ET The U.S. has announced new sanctions on ten Russian and Chinese firms as well as six individuals that it accuses of aiding […]