The Local news@thelocal.ch 10 July 2017 File photo: maximka87/Depositphotos Fewer than half the weddings that took place in Switzerland last year were between two native Swiss people. According to recent figures published by the Swiss statistics office, in only 47 percent of weddings held in 2016 were both partners Swiss. […]
Reuters International JULY 14, 2017 (reuters_tickers) By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – A cholera epidemic in Yemen, which has infected more than 332,000 people, could spread during the annual haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in September, although Saudi authorities are well prepared, the World Health Organization (WHO) said […]
Published on July 9th, 2017 | by Guest Poll: Negative Campaign Against Arabs and Muslims Has Consequences by James J. Zogby While, as president, Donald Trump has worked to cultivate a relationship with Arab leaders, the antipathy towards Arabs and Muslims that he and his party have cultivated in recent […]
Reuters International JULY 15, 2017 UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria Staffan de Mistura speaks at a news conference at Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, July 14, 2017. REUTERS/Xu Jinquan/Pool (reuters_tickers) By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura put the […]
By Matthew Allen JULY 14, 2017 (Keystone) The threat of cyber attacks like WannaCry and Petya are creating lucrative opportunities for specialists looking to work in the financial sector. Top candidates for a job as a cyber security expert can “easily” command salaries of CHF1 million ($1 […]
July 13, 2017 01:16 PM Der Spiegel Naomi Klein helped launch the anti-globalization movement with her book, “No Logo.” Twenty years later, DER SPIEGEL spoke to her about the Hamburg G-20, the current generation of protesters and her concern about how Donald Trump will react in a crisis. SPIEGEL: Ms. Klein, Donald […]
Source: http://www.cleveland.com/letters/index.ssf/2017/07/i_hope_that_more_people_will_c.html By Other Voices The 69th annual convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA will take place this coming weekend in Harrisburg, Pa. The purpose of this convention, as outlined by the Founder of the Community, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, is for members to gather from all across the country […]
Source: KARLSRUHE News | http://timesofahmad.blogspot.in/2017/07/germany-karlsruher-ahmadiyya-muslime.html With campaign of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Under the motto “We are all German” the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat wants to spread enlightenment around Karlsruhe on the subject of Muslims. Only a small minority of the Muslims are responsible for terror. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat community wants to […]
Source: https://observergm.com/ahmadiyya-donates-to-disaster-victims-in-bureng/ The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in The Gambia recently donated 50 bags of rice, clothing, shoes and praying mats to disaster victims at Bureng village, in the Lower River Region. The package also includes a day’s free medical treatment from the doctors of the Ahmadiyya hospitals in Tallinding and Farafenni. […]
Source: CNN By Errol Louis, CNN Political Commentator Story highlights Errol Louis: The President doesn’t regularly attend church and has displayed a wobbly knowledge of the BIble He has pledged to […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Pulliam Bailey July 12 A group of evangelical leaders met with President Trump on Monday and laid their hands on him as he bowed in prayer while […]
Source: Religion News By Emily McFarlan Miller | July 13, 2017 (RNS) — President Trump touted his support from evangelical Christians and his friendly relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview […]
Source: NPR BY MICHAEL MILLER In 1925, the Scopes Trial sparked national debates about creationism and secularism, and put Dayton, Tenn., on the map. Now another debate is happening in […]
Source: Religion News Service By Emily McFarlan Miller | July 12, 2017 Pure Flix donated $25,000 to the American History and Heritage Foundation to assist with replacing a Ten Commandments tribute monument that was recently […]
Source: The Guardian Kate Lyons Tens of thousands of children in Senegal are still being forced to beg for their food by abusive teachers in Qur’anic schools, a year after the government […]
Source: Associated Press By ESTHER HSUTAN SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) — Buddhist demonstrators on Wednesday protested the arrival of the U.N. human rights envoy to Myanmar for an information-gathering trip in […]
Source: BBC Curt von Badinski, a mechanical engineer and co-founder of a San Francisco-based tech company, has a six-hour daily commute from Los Angeles – most of it by plane. Five days a week, he rises at 05:00 for the 15-minute drive to Bob Hope Burbank airport, for a 90-minute flight […]
Source: BBC Grandparents and other relatives of people living in the US cannot be barred from entering under President Trump’s travel ban, a judge has ruled. The order, by District Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii, is a fresh legal blow to Mr Trump’s immigration crackdown. The judge said the ban had interpreted […]
Source: CNN Two Israeli police officers were killed in a shooting Friday in Jerusalem’s Old City, just outside one of the world’s most important religious sites. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said three armed assailants, whom he identified as terrorists, targeted police units in the area. One tried to stab police officer, […]
Source: HT Who are Ahmadis? The quiet town of Qadian in the border district of Punjab’s Gurdaspur is the international headquarters of the Ahmadiyya community. Their population in India is around 1,00,000 while around the world their numbers touch 170 mn. IN QADIAN, thousands of Ahmadis from 35 countries congregate for […]