BURKA BAN Few veiled women fined in Ticino FEB 6, 2017 – 21:41 This billboard from the conservative Swiss People’s Party urges voters not to make it easier for third generation immigrants to become citizens. (Keystone) Six women have been fined since a so-called burka ban went into effect in […]
By Saeed Qureshi Mr. president God bless you but the start of your tenure of four years as the president of the United States of America seems to be thorny. […]
A good resource to tackle Islamophobia John Louis Esposito (born May 19, 1940) is an American professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He […]
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI Today CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s top Islamic authority on Sunday rejected President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s suggestion that legislation be adopted to invalidate the practice of […]
Source: Yahoo News By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Conservative criticism of Pope Francis intensified Saturday after his intervention in the Knights of Malta order, with posters appearing around Rome […]
Source: BBC An inquiry examining institutional sex abuse in Australia has heard 7% of the nation’s Catholic priests allegedly abused children between 1950 and 2010. In one religious order, over […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By JENNIFER LEVITZ and IAN LOVETT MALDEN, Mass.—A mother of three in this Boston suburb, Nichole Mossalam had never planned to run for office. But […]
Source: The New York Times By JONAH ENGEL BROMWICH Returning home on Saturday night after a dinner in Manhattan with some longtime friends, Gregory Locke boarded a No. 1 subway […]
Ibrahim Noonan; Galway – Ireland Maryra, also known as Hazrat Mariam by Muslims, is one of the most popular names given to Christian girls living in Western Europe. If you are firmly established in your Christian faith, then as a girl you would know that you had been named after […]
Source: BBC US President Donald Trump has attacked the judge who blocked his travel ban, saying Americans should blame the courts “if something happens”. Mr Trump also said he had […]
Reuters International FEB 6, 2017 – Refugees and migrants, most of them Afghans, block the entrance of the refugee camp at the disused Hellenikon airport as police officers try to disperse them, in Athens, Greece, February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis (reuters_tickers) By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) – A group […]
Source: Time Join naturalist Steve Backshall and his wife, double Olympic gold medallist Helen Glover, on an exhilarating adventure through Japan’s northern highlands. In this clip from the new series Japan’s […]
SADIK ÜNAY@sadikunay A storm was already looming on the horizon when President Donald Trump assumed power in the U.S. As one of the least popular American presidents in recent history, citizens have protested against his protectionist, populist, xenophobic and far-right political platform. Indeed, less than one month into his term, […]
Source: Time By Vivienne Walt/Paris Until just 10 days ago, the easy frontrunner to be France’s next president was François Fillon, a conservative Republican and former Prime Minister, whose straight-ace family […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY, Australia Reuters File Photo. Seven percent of priests in Australia’s Catholic Church were accused of sexually abusing children over the past several decades, a lawyer said Monday as officials investigating institutional abuse across Australia revealed for the first time the extent of the crisis. The statistics were […]
Source: Time By Alice Park To the age-old question “Is coffee bad for you?”, researchers are in more agreement than ever that the answer is a resounding “no.” A new […]
Source: CNN By Jethro Mullen America’s biggest tech firms have stepped into the legal fight against President Donald Trump’s travel ban. A total of 97 companies — including Apple (AAPL, […]
Source: The Daily Beast John Yoo, who once advised President George W. Bush to take “vigorous, perhaps extreme, measures to protect the nation” in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, wrote in an opinion column in The New York Times on Monday that he believes President Trump’s […]
NATURALISATION QUESTIONS By Thomas Stephens FEB 6, 2017 (Keystone) Swiss citizenship is highly sought after – and correspondingly hard to get. swissinfo.ch looks at how to get the naturalisation ball rolling, who is eligible for the fast track and how much it could all cost. I want to become Swiss. […]