Source: RNS According to canon law, a marriage is not valid if one of the partners was previously married and the spouse is still alive and the previous marriage has not been annulled by the church. Thus, when Newt Gingrich decided to marry his Catholic inamorata Callista Bisek, he obtained annulments of his […]
Source: abna24.com At least 12,000 Qatari-owned camels and sheep have been ordered out of Saudi Arabia as both sides in the Persian Gulf diplomatic crisis refuse to back down. Temporary shelters, water and food have been set up for 7,000 camels and 5,000 sheep forced to trek back to the […]
Source: abna24.com Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has called for the shutting down of Islamic kindergartens in the country. The comment was made at a public event set up by Kurier newspaper. “Of course, we don’t need them. There should be no Islamic kindergartens,” Kurz said when asked whether he […]
Source abna24.com 18 Israeli fighter jets along with two Gulfstream aircraft landed in Saudi Arabia on Thursday to prevent any hostile or military moves by former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz who was replaced with Saudi King Salman’s son. Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz announced on Wednesday his decision […]
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Not all Muslims are expected to fast during Ramadan. Muslims around the world are fasting for the month of Ramadan, a time of devotion, […]
Source: Muslim Sunrise By Arif Humayun Politicized Muslim clerics around the world clamor for the implementation of Islamic Law (shariah) in Muslim majority countries; they denounce Western policies as satanic; […]
Promoted Post: Would Intelligent Aliens Undermine God? Not if the Quran Already Predicted Them Suggested Reading by the Muslim Times: The very book that this article criticizes: The Bible, the Qu’ran […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY JOHN GRAMLICHLEAVE A COMMENT Even as the polling industry tries to recover from real and perceived misses in U.S. and European elections in recent years, new studies have provided reassuring news for survey practitioners about the health of polling methodology. In this Q&A, Michael Dimock, […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY JONATHAN EVANS The vast majority of adults in Central and Eastern Europe identify with a religious group and believe in God, according to a recent […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD Yesterday VATICAN CITY (AP) — Four conservative cardinals who publicly questioned Pope Francis’ opening to divorced and civilly remarried Catholics are pressing their case […]
Source: The Guardian Scheme launched by an Australian activist becomes city-wide phenomenon, with more than 170 fridges delivering ‘a small act of kindness’ during holy month Children in Dubai get […]
Source: Religion News Service By Josephine McKenna | June 20, 2017 VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Catholic Church remains opposed to abortion despite the controversial appointment of a British philosopher to […]
Source: The Washington Post By Justin Jouvenal A Virginia teen found dead after she was attacked as she walked to a mosque was being remembered at vigils set in the […]
Source: USA Today BY Sara M Moniuszko From pageants to print — hijab-wearing Halima Aden is breaking beauty boundaries. Aden, 19, is the cover star of Allure’sJuly issue, which celebrates American […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD Yesterday VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis threw his support behind proposed legislation aimed at better integrating migrants into Italian society and the workforce, […]
Turkey’s religious affairs agency has expressed distaste over a new mosque in Berlin where men and women mingle freely, saying it was incompatible with the principles of Islam. Read more…..https://www.thelocal.de/20170622/turkey-says-liberal-german-mosque-incompatible-with-islam
Mosul/Baghdad: “When I looked out of the window and saw the minaret was no longer there, I felt a part of me had died.” For Ahmad Saied, a 54-year-old Iraqi schoolteacher, and many others Mosul can never be the the leaning minaret that had graced his city for nearly 850 […]
Israel’s intelligence and transportation minister has called on Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Riyadh to establish full diplomatic relations. Speaking at a conference in Herzliya on Thursday, Yisrael Katz also asked King Salman to send newly appointed crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to Tel […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Does the Quran present a theocratic or a secular state? My short answer is ‘a secular state!’ […]
Source: RNS Farhad Ahmad, an imam at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Center near the attack site, said Muslims in the neighborhood are living with more apprehension than ever before.“The situation in the country, there is so much more division,” he said. “You see a change in the tide. The three […]