Mosul humanitarian crisis deepens as displacement peaks
By AFP – Apr 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Iraqis, who have fled the city of Mosul due to the ongoing fighting between government forces and Daesh, wait to receive […]
How many more dead before peace?
Apr 06,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The chemical attack on a small town in the province of Idlib, in northern Syria, one of the last strongholds of rebels fighting the […]
Russia, Syria hit back as pressure builds over ‘chemical attack’
At least 86 people killed early Tuesday in rebel-held Khan Sheikhun By AFP – Apr 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A picture taken on Thursday shows 40-year-old Hassan Youssef, a victim of Tuesday’s suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhun, receiving medical care in a hospital in the nearby northwestern […]
Trump’s pride has been hurt at home, so he’s looking to bolster it with a win in Syria
Source: Independent There’s nothing like a nice little war to rally a country around you. Just ask George W Bush, who romped to a second term after a couple of […]
Assad has forced his secret police into the army to fight for Syria – and it will bring him closer to Trump
Source: Independent UK The very embodiment of the regime is now on the front line. This is Washington’s path to Assad Robert Fisk @indyvoices Isis is on the retreat in […]
The changing global religious landscape
April 06, 2017 The changing global religious landscape Muslims are projected to be the world’s fastest-growing major religious group in the decades ahead. By 2035, the number of babies born to Muslims is expected to modestly exceed births to Christians. Christians remain the world’s largest religious group, but they are […]
New Volume of the Muslim Sunrise: Houses of God: Church, Synagogue, Mosque, Temple
Editorial of Spring 2017 Volume By Mubasher Ahmad, Editor-in-Chief A synagogue, church, mosque or temple – a house of God is a sacred place for co-religious congregations to gather and […]
In Canada, Where Muslims Are Few, Group Stirs Fear of Islamists
Source: The New York Times By CRAIG S. SMITH STONEHAM-ET-TEWKESBURY, Quebec — Patrick Beaudry, bejeweled, tattooed and bearded, lives on a remote wooded hillside in rural Quebec, worrying about living […]
Police arrest 7 in wake of St. Petersburg subway bombing
Source: Associated Press By IRINA TITOVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — As part of a sweeping hunt for any accomplices of the St. Petersburg suicide bomber, investigators […]
Ken Livingstone faces fresh inquiry over Hitler Zionism remarks
Source: The Guardian By Rowena Mason Deputy political editor Ken Livingstone will face a new investigation into his recent comments that Hitler supported Zionism, as Jeremy Corbyn criticised his old ally […]
Malaysia passes child sex crimes law, does not ban child marriage
Source: Reuters A Malaysian MP said girls as young as nine were “physically and spiritually” ready for marriage, as the Muslim-majority Southeast Asian country passed a law on sexual offences […]
BBC Earth is nominated for Webby Awards
Source: BBC BBC Earth has been nominated for three awards at the 21st annual Webby Awards, described as the “Internet’s Highest Honour” and “The Oscars of the Internet”. The site […]
‘Doctor’s Orders: 20 Minutes of Meditation Twice a Day’ – How about 10 Minutes 5 Times a Day?
Source: Muslim Sunrise Spring 2017 Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In a study published in 2012 in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: […]
The African, and Muslim, Discovery of America – Before Columbus
Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick (Adopted with permission from the book, Deeper Roots, Muslims in the Americas and the Caribbean from before Columbus to the Present, by Dr. Abdullah Hakim Quick, […]
Fresh Air Weekend: Why Fewer American Women Are Married Than Ever Before
Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies, says the declining marriage rates among adult women reflect expanded choices available to women today. Originally broadcast in NPR in March 1, […]
Putting Faith into Action Women gather to share their wisdom.
connectionnewspapers.com: In today’s political climate, women can often feel powerless. But more than 100 women of various faiths came together recently to learn how they can and are making a difference in the world around them. #Hosted by the Women’s Auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the event was held […]
Book Review: Jesus before the Gospels
Jesus before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior Author of the book: Prof. Bart Ehrman Book Review by David Chivers, who […]
Iraq reopens hot springs spa amid Mosul war chaos
Reuters International APR 4, 2017 – An Iraqi man bathes in a sulfur pond at Hammam al-Alil city south of Mosul, Iraq April 3, 2017. Picture taken April 3, 2017. […]
CONDEMNATION: Switzerland calls for truth behind Syria chemical attack
APR 5, 2017 – UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura (left) and Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter during the Syria conference in Brussels(Keystone) Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter […]
LAND OF MANY TONGUES: Has migration changed the Swiss language map?
By Kai Reusser & Balz Rigendinger APR 5, 2017 – 18:15 Switzerland has always been a multilingual country – and is becoming a place of ever more languages. Since […]