Source: Reuters By Ahmed Rasheed | BAGHDAD Iraqi forces have dislodged Islamic State from all but 12 square km of Mosul, a military spokesman said on Tuesday, after planes dropped […]
Source: Slate Why do the Ten Commandments occupy such a lofty place in the American sensibility? By Ruth Graham Sam Octigan In the midst of chaos—a classroom, a courtroom, a […]
Source: Reuters By Ori Lewis | JERUSALEM Israel wants the White House to explain why a U.S. diplomat preparing President Donald Trump’s visit to Jerusalem said Judaism’s Holy Western Wall […]
Source: The Hindu BY Jyoti Shelar Jameas, community-run schools of Dawoodi Bohras, offer religious education that embraces and teaches secular worldview When it comes to Muslim religious schools, the word that […]
Source: Time Amanda MacMillan May 15, 2017 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. The more exercise people get, the less their cells appear to age. In a new study […]
Source: BBC An uninhabited island in the South Pacific is littered with the highest density of plastic waste anywhere in the world, according to a study. Henderson Island, part of […]
Source: BBC By Lindsey Galloway 15 May 2017 With its 26 million people, Delhi has been described as a microcosm of India, with trappings from the country’s many cultures, religions […]
Source: BBC Ford is planning to cut around 10% of its global workforce in an attempt to boost profits, according to reports. Chief executive officer Mark Fields also wants to […]
Source: BBC A healthy teenager in the US state of South Carolina died from drinking several highly-caffeinated drinks too quickly, a coroner has ruled. Davis Allen Cripe collapsed at a high school in April after drinking a McDonald’s latte, a large Mountain Dew soft drink and an energy drink in […]
Record Few Americans Believe Bible Is Literal Word of God Source: Gallup Story Highlights 24% believe Bible is literal word of God, the lowest in Gallup’s 40-year trend View of […]
Source: CNN Donald Trump’s latest crisis — over his reported disclosure of highly classified information to Russia — is giving voice to a question whispered privately in Washington during weeks of political turmoil: Is the President up to the job? “This isn’t really about the power of the President. He […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says that serving humanity is an essential part of Islamic faith. On 13 May 2017, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, addressed the Annual Symposium of the European chapter of the International Association of Ahmadi Architects and Engineers (IAAAE). […]
KUALA LUMPUR: A special judicial tribunal in India has upheld the government’s ban on Zakir Naik’s Islamic Research Foundation (IRF). The tribunal found there were sufficient reasons, including a threat to India’s security, to outlaw it. The IRF had petitioned the judicial tribunal against the Nov 17, 2016 ban under […]
Source: Times of India What does it mean to be German? A minister close to Chancellor Angela Merkel has kicked off a divisive election-year debate about cultural identity — earning him praise, ridicule and charges of immigrant-bashing.Some say it’s high time to define shared values as Germany seeks to integrate […]
Guardian: John Safran has made a career of taking a sharp stick to the slumbering bear of Australian identity politics. So it’s not a surprise to learn that he has been reporting his way through the rise of our extremist fringe. His new book, Depends What You Mean By Extremist, […]
Two versions of the plans, running to 231 pages, are with the government. A shortened version, which has 30 pages of only broad descriptions of the plan, were circulated to […]
Reuters International MAY 15, 2017 – People protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban outside of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Seattle, Washington, U.S. May 15, 2017. REUTERS/David Ryder […]
By Thomson Reuters Foundation – May 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES An Iraqi woman sits with children at a camp for internally displaced people in Hammam Al Alil on Sunday, […]
May 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby There is no question that in many parts of the world, including the Middle East, vulnerable religious communities are facing threats to their very survival or serious problems of discrimination. In situations such as these, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom […]
It is quite a popular thing to trample on religious liberty of the citizens of Pakistan provided it is done in the name of Islam By: Yasser Latif Hamdani 15-May-17 I hate to keep repeating myself, but repeat myself I must so long as necessary. Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam was a party founded […]