Where a coconut can save your life
Source: BBC By Julie Bensman 10 March 2017 If you’re ever trapped on a deserted island surrounded by nothing except coconut trees, know that you’re not as doomed as you […]
Buying a New TV? Learn These 20 Crucial Words First
Source: Time John Patrick Pullen Updated: 9:09 PM PKT | Originally published: Mar 09, 2017 Correction appended Friday, Mar. 10 It’s not easy buying a TV, and retailers don’t like […]
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association London planted 175,000 trees in 16 areas across the UK till date
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-39194055 SoICanBreathe is a week of BBC stories exploring some of the different ways people are seeking to make the air cleaner. We asked you to tell us about what steps or suggestions you had for making a difference to air pollution. Tree planting Farhad Ahmad, 25, from the Ahmadiyya […]
[Video] Inside Britain’s largest mosque, Baitul Futuh, of Ahmadiyya Muslims in Morden
Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/inside-britain-s-largest-mosque-baitul-futuh-in-morden-a3482946.html The Standard has gained exclusive access inside Britain’s largest mosque to find out why security has been stepped up, how the mosque is recovering after fire damage, and who prepares behind the scenes for the arrival of 6,000 Muslims during Friday prayers. The Baitul Futuh Mosque in south London […]
UK: East London’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Community raised more than £3.5m for charity since 1998
Source: http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/15145564.Ahmadiyya_community_call_on_walkers_to_help_raise_charity_cash/ By Tom Barnes, Reporter Waltham Forest. Call 07795 507440 / thomas_barnes Waltham Forest Ahmadiyya community call on walkers to help raise charity cash Members of Waltham Forest’s Ahmadiyya community are calling on volunteers to get their walking boots on to raise charity cash. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Elders Association will […]
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) Wandsworth join the Great British Spring Clean campaign to ‘Keep Britain Tidy’
Source: http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/15141830.More_than_50_young_Muslims_take_to_the_streets_to_banish_the_borough_of_litter/ By Grainne Cuffe, Reporter – Wandsworth / @grainne_cuffe Young Muslims joined members of the local community to clean the streets of Wandsworth to “help keep Britain’s streets clean” last weekend. More than 50 youths from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) Wandsworth took the initiative to ‘Keep Britain Tidy’, as […]
UK: Ahmadi Muslims Elders Association hold Charity Walk Dinner
Source: http://www.loveforallhatredfornone.org/uk-ahmadi-muslims-hold-charity-walk-dinner/ The Ahmadiyya community’s elders association held a charity walk dinner, walk is planned for may 2017. Event was attended by 235 guests including representatives of over 55 charities. Event was chaired by Mr Rafiq Hayat National President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK.
UK: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA) at Morden’s Baitul Futuh Mosque in London join Sustainable Merton group for litter picking
Source: http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/15142091.In_pictures__The_Big_Tidy_Up_hits_Merton/ Groups from around Merton joined forced to clean up the borough for the ‘Big Tidy Up’ weekend. Volunteers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association (AMYA), based at Morden’s Baitul Futuh Mosque in London Road, joined forces with local environmental group Sustainable Merton for a litter pick in Morden town […]
IHC orders removal of blasphemous content from social media
Source: The Express Tribune By Rizwan Shehzad ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad High Court judge on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned to scrub off all blasphemous content from local social media accounts. […]
Ben Lee: why a Jewish-raised Hindu musician is singing songs about Islam for kids
Source: The Guardian Ben Lee: ‘I wanted to put out a record that describes the common ground we have, not the differences.’ Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/EPA By Brigid Delaney Protests about Donald […]
Why I’m not an atheist
Source: myAJC.com By Gracie Bonds Staples – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution CURTIS COMPTON Gracie Bonds Staples (front left), a choir member, participates in her Antioch Baptist Church North candlelight communion […]
‘This Will Be the Worst War’: Fears of Mass Displacement as Thousands Flee Conflict in Myanmar’s Northeast
Source: Time By Feliz Solomon / Lashio Mar 09, 2017 A steady stream of men, women and children arrive by the hundreds at Mansu Monastery in rural northeastern Myanmar. Each day […]
Saudi Arabia Must Empower Women If it Truly Wants to Move Forward
Source: Time Ian Bremmer Mar 08, 2017 Bremmer is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at TIME. He is the president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy, and a Global […]
How Descendants of a Slave and a Supreme Court Justice Righted a 160-Year-Old Wrong
Source: Time Melissa Chan Mar 08, 2017 More than a century after the Supreme Court declared that Dred Scott and his fellow slaves were not U.S. citizens, descendants of Scott […]
You’re Not Above the Law Ethics Watchdog to White House:
Source: The Daily Beast A top government ethics watchdog on Thursday pushed back against White House claims that its employees are not subject to ethics rules that bind every other federal government official. Walter Shaub, the director of the Office of Government Ethics, told Stefan Passatino, President Donald Trump’s deputy […]
US lawmaker introduces bill to declare Pakistan a terror state
TOI An influential US lawmaker has sought a “radical reset” of ties with Islamabad and introduced a bill in the Congress that pushes the American government to declare Pakistan a “state sponsor of terrorism”, or give a detailed justification for not doing so in a limited time. More:
Pastor Arrested for Chopping Up Teen
Source: The Daily Beast A woman and her dog were the first to find the headless torso. The duo stumbled upon the remains in a gas station dumpster in Jacksonville, Florida, on a Sunday morning in June 1994. The body’s head, legs, and hands were missing. Two bloodstained kitchen knives […]
Pope signals he’s open to married Catholic men becoming priests
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]
Working for Trump is an embarrassment
Source: CNN On Wednesday, former Governor Jon Huntsman accepted President Donald Trump’s offer to serve as US ambassador to Russia. Having previously served as an ambassador to China, Huntsman may feel prepared for the task at hand. But chances are he will become the latest Trump employee to face professional […]
South Korean president removed from office
Source: CNN South Korea has been plunged into a period of political uncertainty after the President, Park Geun-hye, was forced out of office by a corruption scandal. The country’s Constitutional Court upheld a parliamentary vote to impeach Park over allegations of corruption and cronyism. She becomes the country’s first democratically […]