Source: Religion News Service By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) In one of his last official acts, President Obama has designated Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and other civil rights landmarks in […]
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (Editor’s note: Since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s election, many Christians became convinced he was chosen by God to be president even though he […]
Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMON The abortion rate in the United States fell to its lowest level since the historic Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion nationwide, a new report finds. The report by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports legalized abortion, puts the rate at 14.6 […]
Source: Time Jeffrey Kluger Gene Cernan never knew about the plan NASA approved to cut him loose in space — or at least he didn’t know about it at the […]
Source: Time BY Ryan Teague Beckwith@ryanbeckwith Chris Wilson@chriswilsondc The country that Donald Trump will assume leadership of on Jan. 20, 2017 looks vastly different from the one that President Obama […]
Source: Dawn Last week, officials from Morocco’s interior ministry took to the markets. There they visited some merchants and handed them a letter. “We notice that you sell the burqa,” the letter noted, before asking the merchants to get rid of the existing stock within 48 hours and to not […]
Source: The Local Despite a major 2015 Constitutional Court ruling striking down absolute headscarf bans in schools, a lower court has rejected a case brought by a woman who was not allowed to teach due to wearing the garment. An Osnabrück court on Wednesday dismissed a complaint filed by a […]
Source: Review of Religions ADDRESS BY WORLDWIDE HEAD OF THE AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY AT THE CALGARY PEACE SYMPOSIUM IN CANADA On 11th November 2016, the Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya […]
Palestine: Fatah and Hamas to form unity government Source: Al Jazeerah Agreement reached after three days of talks in Moscow paving the way for the formation of a new National […]
Margareth S. AritonangThe Jakarta Post Jakarta | Tue, January 17, 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial candidate Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (gesturing) speaks during a visit to The Jakarta Post on Dec. 28, 2016. (JP/Wienda Parwitasari) The former president’s son, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, and his running mate Sylviana Murni would have won the Jakarta […]
Tama Salim, Haeril Halim and Hans Nicholas JongThe Jakarta Post Jakarta | Wed, January 18, 2017 Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi (left, seated) talks to Rohingya Muslims at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhiya, Cox’s Bazar, beside Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar on Tuesday. (Courtesy of Foreign Ministry/File) The government has […]
By Juan Cole | Jan. 18, 2017 | By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) Within months of taking office, President Donald Trump is likely to face one or more major international crises, possibly entailing a risk of nuclear escalation. Not since the end of the Cold War has a […]
Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies16 Jan 2017 Tens of thousands take part in a prayer at Jakarta’s National Monument during the December 2 rally against Jakarta’s governor Ahok. Photo: Dewi Nurcahyani Jakarta: About 5000 members of the Islam Defenders’ Front (FPI) turned up outside Indonesian police headquarters on Monday morning, […]
Reuters International JAN 17, 2017 FILE PHOTO – Gambia’s President Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit on Margarita Island September 27, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/File Photo (reuters_tickers) BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambian President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after refusing […]
GROWING DEMAND JAN 17, 2017 – Switzerland has some 10,000 fewer nurses than it needs. Supporters of a new initiative hope to encourage more young people to enter the field by improving working conditions and training opportunities. At a press conference in Bern on Tuesday, the Swiss Association of […]
Reuters International JAN 18, 2017 – Chelsea Manning is pictured in this 2010 photograph obtained on August 14, 2013.Courtesy U.S. Army/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Roberta Rampton and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. military intelligence […]
JAN. 17, 2017 Fatima al-Umour, the mother of slain 17-year old Qusay, rests her head on a family member’s shoulder moments after saying her final goodbyes to her son. (MaanImages/Yumna Patel) By: Yumna Patel BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The early morning traffic began to ease as the funeral procession departed from […]
Source: Ma’an News Agency BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The inauguration of the first Palestinian embassy in Vatican City will take place on Saturday, and will be attended by Palestinian President Mahmoud […]
Jan 17,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah The Middle East Paris peace conference aimed at solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, convened in Paris this week, has been condemned by Israel as a hostile move orchestrated by the Palestinians and the French. Although this is entirely untrue, it is customary for […]
By AFP – Jan 15,2017 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on September 3, 2016 shows French far-right party Front National (FN) president and member of the European Parliament, Marine Le Pen gesturing as she delivers a speech during a FN political rally in Brachay, northeastern France (AFP […]