Source: The Local The German parliament passed a law ending child marriage late on Thursday night, officially raising the marriageable age to 18. The new law officially makes 18 the minimum age for marriage. Previously, 16-year-olds were allowed to marry adults in certain cases with court permission. The legislation also […]
Source: http://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/15320410.The_Slough_community_rallies_round_to_help_the_homless/ | Francis Batt @BattFrancis Reporter Bank Holiday Mondays are much like any other day for a homeless person with nowhere to go. But dedicated members of the Christian and Muslim communities operating together at St Mary’s Church in Slough this week ensured that homeless people who came along at least got […]
Source: https://www.evensi.us/ramadan-open-house-ahmadiyya-muslim-community-portland/212760834 Saturday 10 June 2017 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM Join Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s weekly Open House every Saturday during the holy month of Ramadan from May 27th through June 25th. Each Open House begins with an open “Talk to a Muslim” Q&A session at 7:30pm where you can ask any […]
Occupied Jerusalem: Israel’s finance minister has met the Palestinian prime minister, Israeli officials said on Thursday, in a rare visit by an Israeli cabinet member to the occupied West Bank as part of a US peace push. Read more….http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/palestine/israeli-minister-holds-rare-meeting-with-palestinian-premier-1.2036932
Manama: A Saudi former minister said that allowing women to drive was bound to happen and that women would be driving society, not just cars. “The ban on women driving has been imposed on us, and women in the past used to lead their own camels. Women need to be […]
Source:CNN Thirty-six people have been killed in a Manila casino, following an attack in the early hours of Friday morning by a lone gunman who fired shots from an assault rifle and set fire to gambling tables. The victims, who did not appear to have been shot, are thought to […]
Source: CNN President Donald Trump proclaimed Thursday he was withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord, a sweeping step that fulfills a campaign promise while acutely dampening global efforts to curb global warming. Speaking from the White House, Trump said he was open to renegotiating aspects of the agreement, which […]
Source: The Guardian A new Catholic schools policy says they have an obligation to provide a safe and inclusive learning environment ‘for same-sex attracted and gender diverse young people’. Photograph: […]
Source: The Guardian Jakarta, Indonesia Women offer special ‘Tarawih’ prayers on the first night of the holy month at the Istiqlal mosque Photograph: Solo Imaji/Barcroft Images Dhaka, Bangladesh A man […]
Source: The Guardian BY Ben Doherty Review of their status prompted by spate of violent assaults on the religious minority in Egypt Relatives mourn victims of an attack by gunmen that […]
Source: BBC By Alex Riley 1 June 2017 In a restaurant setting sometime in the not-too distant future, a man and a woman are on their first date. After the […]
Source: BBC Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionCows are considered holy by India’s majority Hindu population Police in the southern state of Kerala have arrested eight men who publicly killed a calf […]
Source: BBC The world’s coral reefs can be saved by addressing climate change but they will not resemble those of the past, a new study has said. Future reefs will […]
Source: Time BY Duško Marković May 30, 2017 On June 5 , Montenegro will formally join NATO – thus reaching a historic milestone and joining the most powerful countries in the […]
Source: Time BY Jeffrey Kluger May 30, 2017 NASA has visited some awfully impressive places in the past 60 years, so it’s something of a wonder that the space agency hasn’t […]
Source: Washington Post President Trump will not relocate the U.S. Embassy in Israel from secular Tel Aviv to the capital Jerusalem, at least for now, the White House announced Thursday, […]
May 03, 2017 This write-up intends to make people of the region aware of the beauty and the richness of their culture, when it comes to architecture and the living […]
Personal Finance | 20 May 2017 Martin Hesse The way Muslims do business is based on free-market economics, but it provides a far more equitable and sustainable economic model than the dog-eat-dog world of Western capitalism. This was a strong underlying message to come out of a recent conference on Islamic banking […]
July 12th, 2013 ‘O ye who believe! fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you may become righteous.’ (2:184) With the grace of God, Ramadan started here (the UK) from yesterday. Thank God that He has granted us the experience of yet […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS NICOSIA, Cyprus Turkish Cypriot Mustafa Akıncı (right), United Nations’ Secretary General Antonio Guterres (center) and Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades (left) pose before a trilateral meeting (AFP Photo) Officials say U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet the rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus at U.N. headquarters in New […]