Reutes International MAY 8, 2017 – Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem speaks during a news conference in Damascus, Syria April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki/File Photo (reuters_tickers) BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said on Monday that his government would abide by the terms of a Russian plan for […]
Reuters International MAY 8, 2017 JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia is to disband an Islamist group that calls for a state based on sharia law, citing concern it undermines a secular state ideology in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country, officials said on Monday. Chief security minister Wiranto said a government panel […]
May 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Mark Suzman US President Donald Trump’s recently released 2018 budget blueprint proposes deep cuts in US foreign aid, prompting a discussion on the role of such spending in improving the health and wellbeing of the world’s most vulnerable people. This discussion is important, because, […]
Source: NPR BY NESRINE MALIK If Islam were a skin color, there would be a sliding scale along which you could determine just how Muslim you are. On the extremely […]
Source: BBC By Yolande KnellBBC News, Jerusalem The Archbishop of Canterbury is to meet Palestinian and Israeli political leaders as part of a 12-day tour of the Holy Land. His […]
Source: The Conversation The Russian Supreme Court recently sanctioned Jehovah’s Witnesses as an extremist group. This ruling criminalizes Jehovah’s Witnesses who express their beliefs and allows the Russian government to […]
Source: Reuters By Felix Onuah and Ahmed Kingimi | ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from […]
Source: Reuters Reporting by Bate Felix; Editing by Geert De Clercq Paris’ main Mosque said on Sunday that the election of centrist Emmanuel Macron as France’s next president over far-right […]
Source: Reuters By Lawrence Hurley | RICHMOND, VA. President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries faces a key legal test on Monday before a U.S. appeals […]
Source: Associated Press By TODD RICHMOND MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin-based atheist group has filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to strike down President Donald Trump’s order easing […]
Source: BBC The video shows tarsiers hunting for prey. Tarsiers are the only carnivorous primates on earth. They have huge eyes which can see the faintest of light. Tarsiers are […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
//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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]