Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I have great respect for Javed Ahmad Ghamidi for his moderate views on host of issues. Only […]
Source: Religion News Service By Josephine McKenna | June 15, 2017 VATICAN CITY (RNS) Several progressive Catholic groups are launching an initiative aimed at giving lay Catholics and clergy across […]
Source: Chron By L.M. Sixel Questback opened its The Woodlands office August 5. From left: CEO Frank Møllerop, President of North America Carol Lee Andersen and Chairman Terje Bakken. At […]
Source: Time BY Lisa Eadicicco Updated: Jun 16, 2017 11:44 AM ET Amazon announced on Friday that it will acquire upscale food market chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, giving […]
Source: Time BY Mark Leftly / London Jun 16, 2017 Hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters will descend upon Westminster Friday evening calling for justice for the victims of the […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I am a theist and so emotionally with Lennox. Yet, happy to report that Dawkins, at least knocks […]
Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby’s criminal trial as jury deadlocks Source: CNN Norristown, Pennsylvania (CNN)[Breaking news update, posted at 10:52 a.m. ET] The judge in the Bill Cosby trial declared […]
President Obama and Naturalist Sir David Attenborough sit to discuss and contemplate the natural world at the White House in 2015.
Source: Vancour Sun By Douglas Todd Creationism, a religious world view that adamantly rejects Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, is on the rise among evangelical Protestants and most of the […]
Fifteen years after her gang rape by a local clan in her village in Pakistan, Mukhtar Mai is reliving her ordeal, but also her courage, through a US opera inspired by her story. The opera, by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Susan Yankowitz, recounts Mai’s 2002 rape and her decision […]
Source: Dawn WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was under investigation for firing the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The probe seeks to determine whether the former FBI chief James Comey was fired to stop him from holding an inquiry into alleged Russian […]
Source: The Local A large majority of Europeans have a positive view of Germany, while seeing Berlin as still having too much power in EU affairs, a new survey shows. The Pew Research Centre study released on Thursday showed that 71 percent of respondents outside of Germany had a favourable view of […]
The Promised Messiah (as) has said that in order to have true Taqwa, one must instill all good morals in one’s self. Therefore, a believer should try to adopt all […]
Source:The Local With a mission to spread a liberal form of Islam, a mosque where men and women pray side by side has opened its doors in Berlin, complete with female imams. The Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar” (‘God is greatest’) resonated through the crowded Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-Mosque Friday as US-Malaysian Ani Zonneveld, […]
Source:CNN German statesman Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification after the end of the Cold War, has died, his Christian Democratic Union party announced Friday. He was 87. Kohl served as chancellor for 16 years — from 1982 to 1998 — and was Germany’s longest-serving leader since 1945. He […]
Source: CNN Seven US sailors are missing and the commanding officer of a US destroyer is among the injured after the warship collided with a merchant ship off the coast of Japan, the US Navy said. The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald suffered damage to its starboard side above and below […]
Source: National geographic In the fall of 1989 Princeton University welcomed into its freshman class a young man named Alexi Santana, whose life story the admissions committee had found extraordinarily compelling. He had barely received any formal schooling. He had spent his adolescence almost entirely on his own, living outdoors […]
Jun 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Fifty years after the Six-Day War, which marked the beginning of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the Middle East remains a region in seemingly perpetual crisis. So it is no surprise that, when addressing the region, politicians, diplomats, and the donor […]
Beginning the month of Ramadhan Abu Huraira relates that the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: start the month after sighting the new moon and end it at the next sighting. If you are unable to observe it by reason of the sky being […]
Allah says in the Qur’an: The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. Peace it is until the emergence of dawn. [Qur’an: 97:3-5] The blessed Laylatul Qadr can be found in any of the last […]