Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMON A group of alumni from one of the country’s most influential evangelical Christian universities is condemning their school’s president for his continued alignment with President Trump. […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey August 18 Evangelical author Eric Metaxas (left) and megachurch pastor A.R. Bernard (right) at the White House on May 4, 2017. (Photo courtesy of […]
Source: The Washington Post By James McAuley August 20 at 4:09 PM BARCELONA — In the aftermath of Europe’s latest terrorist attack , a set of familiar tensions clouded this sunny, vibrant city Sunday . Some […]
Source: BBC News The head of the Philippines Catholic Church has criticised the government’s bloody campaign against drugs. Manila Cardinal Luis Tagle condemned “those who kill even the helpless”. Police […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday urged countries to greatly improve their welcome to migrants and stop collective expulsions, saying migrants’ dignity […]
Source: The New York Times By ROD NORDLAND and FATIMA FAIZI KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan singer and pop star Aryana Saeed, as famous here for her curve-hugging costumes as she is for […]
Source: CNN By Jessica Suerth Updated 1059 GMT (1859 HKT) August 21, 2017 (CNN) More than 150 years after the Civil War ended, the Confederacy is memorialized with statues, monuments […]
Reuters International AUGUST 20, 2017 www.swissinfo.ch Mala Bakhtiar, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK’s) Politburo Executive Secretary speaks during an interview with Reuters in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq August 19, […]
President says Russian, Iranian aid crucial to recovery of territory By Reuters – Aug 20,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A handout photo released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency […]
Aug 20,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Fatoumata Nafo-Traoré The scale of human suffering currently engulfing drought-stricken Somalia is almost indescribable. It is difficult to find words to convey the devastation and misery gripping the country, now in the midst of a prolonged period of record-low rainfall. I watched emaciated herds of […]
One factor common amongst these attackers is their youth: the alleged offender in the Barcelona attack, Younes Abouyaaqoub, is 22 years old. The suspected terrorists shot dead by police in Cambrils were aged between 17 and 24 Imam Qari Asim 330 comments This week has seen three terror attacks in […]
How many times denser than the average black hole would a chap need to be to accuse a man – who has devoted himself to unravelling truths hidden deep within […]
(A look into the life of Rafiq A. Tschannen – Associate Chief Editor, The Muslim Times) – on to Switzerland and Antigua and Barbuda). Well, after this most strange transfer […]
Source: CDC A total solar eclipse—when the moon completely covers the sun—will be visible from coast to coast on August 21, 2017. This amazing event lasts only about 2 minutes […]
The Italian island of Sardinia has more than six times as many centenarians as the mainland and ten times as many as North America. Why? According to psychologist Susan […]
Dawn.com 2017/08/20 An Indian court has given a woman permission to divorce her husband because their home did not have a toilet, forcing her to seek relief outdoors. The family court in the northwestern state of Rajasthan ruled on Friday in favour of the woman, who argued that her husband’s […]
Source: The Guardian By Melissa Davey and agencies The archbishop of the archdiocese of Melbourne, Denis Hart, said he would risk going to jail rather than report allegations of child sexual abuse raised […]
Source: The Guardian Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart has said he’ll risk going to jail rather than report what’s said to him in the sacrament of confession, even if what’s confessed […]
Source: The Guardian BY Josh Halliday North of England correspondent Qari Asim, one of UK’s most prominent imams, says central religious authority will interpret Islam in line with British values […]