Here’s What You Should Know About the Hindu Festival of Holi
Source: Time Joseph Hincks Mar 10, 2017 Every year millions of people in India, Nepal, and around the world celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi under clouds of technicolored powder. […]
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Will Shape Its Future
Source: Muftah By Usman Ahmad March 10th, 2017 Recent months have seen Pakistan’s blasphemy laws come under the spotlight once again. In January, five liberal-leaning bloggers and activists went missing under […]
Intruder breaches White House grounds
Source: CNN A man carrying a backpack was arrested Friday night after breaching security at the White House complex and was discovered by a Secret Service officer by the south entrance to the executive residence, officials said. The incident happened just before midnight while President Donald Trump was at the […]
Orthodox Church debate over women deacons moves one step closer to reality
Source: Religion News service By Catherine Clark Above every Greek Orthodox church’s altar, Theotokos, or Mary the Mother of Jesus, symbolically watches over the congregation. The figure, with arms outstretched, […]
Swiss parliament’s upper house rejects bill to ban burqas
Source: Associated Press By JAMEY KEATEN GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s upper house of parliament has rejected an initiative championed by a right-wing populist party to ban burqas and niqabs, the […]
Reza Aslan outrages Hindus by eating human brains in CNN documentary
Source: The Guardian Michael Safi in Delhi The American author filmed with a cannibalistic sect for his Believers series, with fears that it could increase hate attacks against Indian Americans […]
U.S. to Question India About Ban on Christian Charity
Source: The New York Times By ELLEN BARRY and SUHASINI RAJMARCH 9, 2017 Photo Pramod Dass, left, the director of Bethesda Charitable Endeavors, one of the Indian partners of Compassion […]
Myanmar Muslim minority subject to horrific torture, UN says
Source: BBC By Jonah Fisher Image captionThe Rohingya are a Muslim minority group from Myanmar A top UN official says “crimes against humanity” are being committed by the military and […]
Indonesia’s Sentencing of ‘Son of God’ Adds to Alarm Over Crackdown
Source: The New York Times By JON EMONTMARCH 9, 2017 Photo Ahmad Mushaddeq, a self-proclaimed messiah, in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 2008. He was imprisoned for blasphemy for the first time […]
Trump’s anti-Muslim policies may portend oil industry brain drain
Source: The Guardian Asa Merritt in Midland, Texas The ban is already affecting hiring decisions, despite an oil industry desperate for specialists like ones from majority-Muslim nations to work in […]
Legal challenges to Trump’s travel ban mount from US states
Source: Associated Press By MARTHA BELLISLE and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER SEATTLE (AP) — Legal challenges against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban mounted Thursday as Washington state said it would […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Queens organize a ‘women only’ event titled ‘Pioneer Women in My Faith’
Source: http://newyork.carpediem.cd/events/2889709-pioneer-women-in-my-faith-at-ahmadiyya-muslim-community-queens-ny/ 12th MARCH — 15:00 – 17:00
Canada: Ahmadiyya Muslim community Calgary try building bridges in High River by their Islam Understood Campaign
Source: http://www.highrivertimes.com/2017/03/09/campaign-seeks-to-remove-islam-misunderstanding By Kevin Rushworth, High River Times In order to build bridges and take down barriers, youth members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at community launched a nation-wide campaign to remove misconceptions surrounding the Islamic faith. Thousands of Canadian Muslim youth chose March 5 to travel to towns and cities across […]
Canada: People from King for Refugees attend open house at Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque in Maple
Source: http://www.yorkregion.com/community-story/7179996-ureport-people-from-king-for-refugees-attend-maple-mosque-open-house/ King Connection | By Nancy Hopkinson Several people from King for Refugees accepted the kind invitation of the Muslim Ahmadiyya Mosque in Maple to attend an open house on Sunday, March 5. The visitors arrived at 2 p.m. and were directed to the mezzanine upstairs to view the prayers. In […]
USA: Ahmadi Muslims in Fitchburg help bridge the gap between them and their non-Muslim counterparts
Source: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/letters/ci_30845659/heres-your-chance-meet-muslim Here’s your chance to meet a Muslim Sentinel & Enterprise UPDATED: 03/09/2017 08:55:35 AM EST In this age of misinformation, many Americans have misconceptions about Islam and a majority (62 percent) don’t even know a Muslim. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association aims to erase these misgivings and answer any […]
Erdogan Calls the Dutch ‘Nazi Remnants’ After Minister’s Landing Permission Canceled
Source: The Daily Beast Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed the Dutch as “Nazi remnants and fascists” after the Dutch government on Saturday canceled the Turkish foreign minister’s landing permission. Authorities in the Netherlands stripped the Turkish minister of his landing rights ahead of a planned rally in support […]
Muhammad Ali’s son says he was detained a second time at US airport
Source: ET Muhammad Ali, Jr., son of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, speaks during a forum on the consequences of US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on March 9, 2017. PHOTO: AFP Muhammad Ali Jr, the son and namesake of the late boxing great, […]
Blind faith
Source: Dawn By Irfan Hussain I HAVE often wondered why the people of Pakistan put up with all the awful stuff they endure on a daily basis. Why don’t they rise up in protest against the incompetence and corruption rampant in the country? The state provides virtually nothing in the […]
‘New coat of paint’
Source: Dawn ‘New coat of paint’ In another legal challenge, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint on behalf of several refugee assistance groups over the controversial executive order. “Putting a new coat of paint on the Muslim ban doesn’t solve its fundamental problem, which is that the Constitution […]
Pope Francis Signals Openness to Ordaining Married Men in Some Cases
By JASON HOROWITZMARCH 10, 2017 NYimes .com 201703/10 Pope Francis this week signaled receptiveness to appeals from bishops in the remote and overwhelmed corners of the Roman Catholic Church to combat a deepening shortage of priests by ordaining married men who are already committed to the church. In an interview with a German newspaper, […]