One in four children in Arab world live in poverty — UNICEF
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, […]
Some problems with USCIRF
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 […]
Ahraristan not Pakistan
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 […]
37 alleged of attack on Ahmadi place of worship released on bail
37 alleged of attack on Ahmadi place of worship released on bail National MAY 12, 2017 BY PAKISTANTODAY 37 men arrested for attacking an Ahmadi place of worship last year […]
Indian Goverment shows Constitution to Supreme Court, says ‘your job is not to interpret Quran’
Epigraph: “But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow […]
Yemen war: Emergency in Sanaa as cholera kills scores
Source: BBC A state of emergency has been declared in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, after an outbreak of cholera killed scores of people. Hospitals in the city, which is controlled […]
We deserve a secular State for a pluralist people
Source: the Irish Times Ireland’s population has moved on from the church but our politicians have not By Michael Nugent TDs Ruth Coppinger and Mick Barry hold signs saying […]
Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in China. We found that the Internet fuels — and fights — this.
Source: The Washington Post By Rose Luqiu and Fan Yang May 12 Children play near a cage protecting Chinese paramilitary policemen in Urumqi in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in 2014. […]
Muslims and Jews Break Bread, and Build Bonds
Source: The New York Times By SHARON OTTERMAN The Anwars, background, a Muslim family, were guests of the Firestones, who are Jewish, at a Sabbath meal in Brooklyn. Credit:Hilary Swift […]
Pope makes 2 Fatima children saints on centenary of visions
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD and BARRY HATTON FATIMA, Portugal (AP) — Pope Francis added two Portuguese shepherd children to the roster of Catholic saints Saturday, honoring young siblings […]
Pope says doubts Medjugorje apparitions are authentic
Source: Reuters By Philip Pullella | ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE Pope Francis has voiced serious doubt about the authenticity of alleged continuing apparitions of the Madonna in Medjugorje, a once-obscure […]
Christians, in an Epochal Shift, Are Leaving the Middle East
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Maria Abi-Habib Wall Street Journal Posted 2017-05-14 19:31 GMT An Assyrian militiaman stands guard during an Easter ceremony at the Saint John’s church in […]
A Russian honeytrap for Gen Flynn? Not me…
Source: BBC By Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News Image copyrightSVETLANA LOKHOVA When Svetlana Lokhova saw the internet light up with suggestions she was a Russian spy, she initially thought […]
India 10-year-old child rape victim in abortion plea
Source: BBC A panel of doctors has met in India to discuss the case of a 10-year-old rape victim who is seeking an abortion. The girl was repeatedly raped by […]
Canada: Hundreds of Quebec lumber workers among first to lose work after Trump’s softwood tariffs
thestar.com 2017/05/14 MONTREAL—Hundreds of Quebec forestry workers are experiencing the first sour tastes from the softwood lumber battle with the United States as they prepare for the start of layoffs. Starting Monday, Resolute Forest Products is cutting shifts at seven sawmills and delaying the start of forest operations that will […]
Donald Trump is CEO of the country, can fire anyone he wants
Source: TOI NEW YORK: US PresidentDonald Trump is “CEO of the country, he can fire anyone he wants”, America’s envoy to the UN Nikki Haley has said, while defending him for firing former FBI director James Comey. Haley said she believed that the criticism of Trump stems from discomfort with his […]
Immigration, Islam and the West
Source: ET Colonialism brought Europe and the West to Asia and Africa. The tide has now turned. Demographic change and immigration are now bringing Asia and Africa to the West. The West prevailed in the first encounter that took place in the 18th and 19th centuries. The lands it conquered […]
Bakhtawar criticizes law forbidding public eating during Ramazan, says ‘this is not Islam’
Source: The Express Tribune Perturbed by legislation making eating in public during Ramazan a jailable offence, Bakhtawar Bhutto took to Twitter to condemn the rule. The daughter of former […]
Women Rights: Islam and the West
Epigraph: “But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow […]
Barghouthi calls on commemorating Nakba through unity, civil disobedience
Barghouthi calls on commemorating Nakba through unity, civil disobedience 3 hours ago PNN/ Ramallah/ The Media Committee of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ society, present the summary of the twenty-eighth day of the collective hunger strike, which was embarked by the prisoners’ movement in […]