It’s significant that Rex Tillerson went ahead with his Moscow trip so soon after the air strikes in Syria. It’s equally significant that a meeting with Putin went ahead – and, for once, Putin […]
The so-called ‘tourist’ police appear in their uniforms during the day and then the same officers, in civilian clothes, can be spotted at night in the downtown cinema complex in central Beirut. And as far as the Ein el-Helweh camp is concerned, where many Islamist supporters live, Lebanon is keeping […]
thestar.com OTTAWA—Few new Canadians go right from a citizenship ceremony to addressing Parliament. But then few people are like Malala Yousafzai — Nobel Peace Prize winner, a United Nations messenger of peace, a global advocate for education. And still just 19. The Pakistan woman, who survived a Taliban attack five […]
Around 1,500 Indian Sikhs with over 500 from various European countries and over 2,000 Pakistani Hindus and Sikhs have added colour to Beskahi festival that began in Hassanabdal on Thursday. https://www.dawn.com/news/1326743 This year’s festival marks the 319th anniversary of Khalsa (the righteous Sikh brotherhood). In 1699, Guru Gobind Singh (the […]
Source: Associated Press By HEBA AFIFY CAIRO (AP) — Outside of Cairo’s St. Mark’s Cathedral, the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope, a dozen high-ranking police officers are stationed on […]
Source: Reuters Egypt on Wednesday named the suicide bomber who attacked a cathedral in Alexandria as 31-year-old Mahmoud Hassan Mubarak Abdullah, describing him as a fugitive with links to militant […]
Source: NPR BY MICHAEL SULLIVAN AND ASHLEY WESTERMAN With her 8-year-old son’s head resting in her lap, Zubaida was sitting at home with some other women from her village in western Myanmar’s […]
Source: PR Ahmadiyya The Aafiyat Mosque inaugurated by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is pleased to announce that on 10 April 2017, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad inaugurated the Aafiyat Mosque (Mosque of Peace and […]
Source: The Conversation This Sunday, April 16, Christians will be celebrating Easter, the day on which the resurrection of Jesus is said to have taken place. The date of celebration […]
Source: NPR By BILL CHAPPELL Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has registered to run for his third term as Iran’s president, putting a jolt into next month’s elections. He’s the latest hardline challenger to […]
Source: Associated Press By STEVE PEOPLES NEW YORK (AP) — Sikhs in the United States are launching a million-dollar awareness campaign that aims to stop hate-fueled attacks by explaining more […]
Source: BBC By Claire Bates Image copyrightNEW CITIZENSHIP PROJECT When Irenie Ekkeshis’s eye started to itch she assumed it would soon settle down. It didn’t. Before long, she found herself […]
Source: BBC By Anna Merlan 12 April 2017 It’s not possible to keep up with 52-year-old Félix Ramón Guirola Cepero, and it’s not wise to try. On a bright winter […]
Source: BBC The attacks this week on Coptic churches in northern Egypt underline the dangers faced by the country’s Christian minority. But among the Nubians – an ancient nation that […]
Source: Fox News In a show of solidarity after the Palm Sunday attacks in Egypt, Muslim men and women rushed to mosques in Tanta to donate blood for those injured […]
REUTERS | ALI AKBAR | HASSAN FARHAN A 23-year-old student of Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan was killed and another seriously injured by a vigilante mob for allegedly “publishing blasphemous […]
Reuters International APR 13, 2017 – An interior view shows the building of a school, which was seized by Islamist militants in 2004 in the southern town of Beslan, Russia, April 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kazbek Basayev (reuters_tickers) By Kazbek Basayev and Andrew Osborn BESLAN/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia broke European human rights […]
Reuters International APR 13, 2017 – FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives for the swearing-in ceremony of Judge Neil Gorsuch as an Associate Supreme Court Justice in the […]
Reuters International APR 12, 2017 – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble in Baden-Baden, Germany, March 18, 2017. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach (reuters_tickers) BERLIN (Reuters) – Muslims who migrate to Europe should understand […]
By Veronica DeVore APR 10, 2017 A Catholic priest and a Protestant pastor blessed the new Gotthard rail tunnel at its opening in June 2016(Keystone) Are Swiss pastors really […]