Court OK of student-led school board prayers to be appealed
Source: Associated Press By KEVIN McGILL NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court in New Orleans will be asked to reconsider its ruling allowing student-led prayer at school board […]
The Guardian view on the Westminster attack: solidarity against terror -Editorial
Editorial It is the moment everyone feared would come. But it must be kept in proportion An armed police officer gestures as he stands guard in Parliament Square. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images Wednesday 22 March 2017 19.59 GMTLast modified on Thursday 23 March 201707.28 GMT It was only ever a matter of […]
IS claims responsibility for London attack; UK’s May defiant
Source: Associated Press By JILL LAWLESS and PAISLEY DODDS LONDON (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack by a man who plowed an SUV into […]
Nationalism the big winner in Bulgarian election
Source: Reuters By Angel Krasimirov | ELIN PELIN, BULGARIA Syrian refugee Fatema Batayhi says she has not left her home for five weeks, not since a hostile crowd confronted her […]
India meat crackdown leaves butchers concerned
Source: BBC Several slaughterhouses and meat shops have been shut in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comprehensively won state assembly […]
Trump to deliver Liberty University commencement address
Source: CNN By Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump will deliver the May commencement address at Liberty University, the largest Christian university in the world announced Wednesday. Trump, who […]
Pharmacist convicted of racketeering, fraud in fungal meningitis outbreak
Source: CNN By Chuck Johnston and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN)Jurors in the trial of pharmacist Barry Cadden delivered a mixed verdict Wednesday in connection with a deadly 2012 nationwide fungal […]
Canada: Imam calling for Jews to be killed in sermon at Saint-Michel mosque draws police complaint
Suggested Reading by the Muslim Times:The Muslim Times’ Collection to Show, Islam or the Holy Quran are Not Anti-Semitic Source: CBC Video of sermon posted to Dar Al-Arqam Mosque’s YouTube page […]
London attack: Eight held after armed police raids
Source: UK Eight arrests have been made in raids in London, Birmingham and elsewhere following an attack in Westminster that left four dead, police have said. Hundreds of detectives worked […]
Jordan King’s important role in renovating the Church of Holy Sepulcher
King’s important role in renovating Jerusalem’s holy grave Mar 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab For centuries, historic Christian churches have been unable to agree on a way to refurbish […]
Laptop ban sparks ire among Mideast travellers
By AFP – Mar 22,2017 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian passenger travelling to the United States through Amman types on his laptop before entering Beirut International Airport’s departure lounge on Wednesday (AFP photo) DUBAI — Travellers across the Middle East expressed frustration Wednesday at a ban on large electronic […]
Number of women working past 70 in UK doubles in four years
theguardian: by Julia Kollewe — ONS finds pronounced rise in women working past traditional retirement age, from 5.6% to 11.3% between 2012 and 2016 Many older workers say they are happy to continue in employment, but pension experts say women in particular have low levels of savings. Photograph: Getty The […]
Disappointed at refusal for Ahmadi mosque
Letter to the Editor South Wales Echo, UK Cardiff council has once again utterly disappointed me. The planning application to build an Ahmadi mosque in Canton has been in and out of council corridors for more than two years and the council couldn’t distinguish between Ahmadi Muslims and non-Ahmadi Muslims […]
More Evidence Supporting the House of Debt
AUGUST 8, 2014 BY ATIF MIAN AND AMIR SUFI Economists of all stripes are baffled by continued economic weakness in the United States. The easiest way to see the weakness is to compare where we are in terms of GDP today relative to historical trend growth, something we did in […]
From The Archives: The Search for “Enlightened Moderation” in Pakistan
Dr. Atif Mian – USA As part of an occasional series highlighting notable articles from the archives of The Review of Religions, we are pleased to present the following piece, originally published in 2004 in response to an op-ed written in The Washington Post on May 31, 2004, by then-President […]
Jesus’s tomb unveiled after $4m restoration
Source: The Guardian Wednesday’s ceremony will mark completion of nine-month renovation of most sacred monument in Christianity BY Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent The restored tomb in which Jesus’s body is believed […]
London attack: What we know so far
Source: BBC Four people have died and 20 people have been injured after what police are treating as terrorist attacks in Westminster, earlier on Wednesday. Here is what we know […]
Supermarkets Keep Slashing Prices and It’s Not Working
Source: Time By Jennifer Calfas Mar 21, 2017 Supermarkets are slashing prices to the point where for the first time in nearly 50 years, prices on items decreased on average. The […]
President Trump’s Former Campaign Chair Paul Manafort Once Worked to Advance Putin’s Interests
Source: Time BY Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day/AP Mar 22, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests […]
Whatever happened to Generation X?
Source: BBC By Lindsay Baker 21 March 2017 It’s a familiar and ongoing feud: baby boomers in one corner and millennials in the other. It seems the two generations are […]