Canada floods: Montreal declares state of emergency
Source: BBC A state of emergency has been declared in the Canadian city of Montreal due to flooding caused by torrential rains and melting snow. The measure was declared on […]
7 subtle signs of depression you should not ignore
Source: Independent By Harriet Marsden The rising rates of depression, anxiety and suicide in the UK are extremely worrying. Current health secretary Jeremy Hunt appeared on today’s Andrew Marr Show to discuss […]
Egypt Azhar university head replaced after ‘apostasy’ remarks
Source: The Daily Star CAIRO: The head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar university, one of the world’s leading Islamic seats of learning, has been replaced after labeling a controversial Muslim reformer an […]
Swiss guards, loyal soldiers of the pope, take the oath
AFP news@thelocal.it 7 May 2017 swiss guardsvatican Share this article Swiss Guards at the swearing-in ceremony on May 6th. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Forty new Swiss Guards were sworn in at […]
LIBERAL GLARUS: Ancient form of assembly rejects burka ban
//tp.srgssr.ch/p/swi/embed?urn=urn:swi:video:43164502 https://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:43164502&locale=en EMBED CODE MAY 8, 2017 – 11:18 By a traditional show of hands at an outdoor assembly, voters in Glarus on Sunday voted against a proposal to ban the burka in public places in the mountain canton. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) The plan was backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, […]
Ahmadiyya Burial, ‘Serious’ religious saga
Source: The Point The Police in the Kanifing Municipality have averted “a serious confrontation” between the Muslims and Ahmadis of Tallinding on Saturday, the police spokesman said. PRO Inspector Foday Conta said the confrontation was due to the burial rite of a deceased Ahmadiyya man of Tallinding who died in […]
Our darkest moments
Source: Dawn SEVENTY-ONE deaths in 27 years. According to data collected by Al Jazeera, that is the estimated number of people killed in violence connected to blasphemy allegations. It includes the 12-year-old who lost his life in the town of Hub on Thursday, after a mob resorted to aerial firing […]
‘We must protect our country’: extremist Buddhists target Mandalay’s Muslims
Ultra-nationalist Buddhist group Ma Ba Tha has been spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric across Myanmar for years. Cosmopolitan Mandalay is at the heart of this hostility – which many fear is here to stay In a cluttered room in a monastery in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second city, a group of crimson-robed monks and […]
Today is the Birthday of David Attenborough: A Cordial Invitation to him to be a Theist
Epigraph Blessed is He in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things;Who has created death and life that He might try you — which of […]
Socks in sandals: Germans mock govt ideals for immigrant integration
Source: The Local The Interior Minister has come under fire for his statements explaining what Germany’s ‘Leitkultur’, or “guiding culture”, should be amid discussions of immigration and integration. Here’s a taste of how his critics have responded. Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière wrote in Bild’s Sunday publication ten theses describing […]
Strong win in state poll boosts Merkel’s party ahead of national vote
Source: The Local Angela Merkel. Photo: DPA. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives secured a strong win Sunday in state polls in northern Germany, preliminary results showed, giving a boost to her bid to retain power in national elections in September. Voters in the small, northern state of Schleswig-Holstein handed her CDU […]
Berlin orders barracks inspection after Nazi symbols found
Source: The Local The top brass of the German military has ordered an inspection of all of its barracks after discovering Nazi-era memorabilia at two of them, the defence ministry said on Sunday. “The inspector general of the Bundeswehr (Germany’s armed forces) has ordered an inspection of all of its […]
From Macron’s teacher to France’s first lady
Source:CNN The relationship between French President-Elect Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Trogneuxhas captivated the world. There is nothing cliche about their story, which began when a 15-year-old Macron took part in a school play directed by Trogneux, 24 years his senior. Trogneux went from being Macron’s teacher to his […]
The euro survives its biggest political test
Source: CNN France has chosen the independent centrist Emmanuel Macron to be its next president, ending a tumultuous campaign that had undermined the euro and raised real doubts over its continued survival. Macron captured an estimated 65% of the vote on Sunday, easily defeating the far right populist Marine Le Pen, […]
Are a million African migrants really on their way to Europe?
John R Campbell, SOAS “Already, I’m informed by very well informed guys and girls who are working on the area, and in the area at the moment, that there’s potentially […]
Marriage in Islam
Ata Ullah Kaleem, The Review of Religions, November 1992 In the beginning I am presenting below the English translation of the Arabic sermon which is delivered on the occasion of the solemnization of a Muslim marriage: All praise is due to God! We laud Him, we beseech help from Him […]
Netanyahu tosses Hamas policy paper on Israel into waste bin
Reuters International MAY 7, 2017 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem May 7, 2017. REUTERS/Oded Balilty/Pool (reuters_tickers) By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) – […]
REGIONAL VOTE: Glarus open-air assembly rejects burka ban
MAY 7, 2017 – bu Ticio remains the only Swiss canton to ban burkas(Keystone) Citizens in canton Glarus have rejected a proposal to outlaw the wearing of a burka in public. Participants […]
Talks begin on evacuating rebels from Syria capital
By AFP – May 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Buses carrying Syrian civilians and rebels, evacuated from Al Waer district of Homs, arrive to Jarabulus — which was liberated from the Daesh terror group as part of the operation Euphrates Shield, carried out by the Free Syrian Army with Turkish […]
Moroccan cleric defies taboo on women’s inheritance
By AFP – May 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Moroccans bang on pots as they gather in the northern city of Al Hoceima on Saturday, during a demonstration that involved […]