Pope Francis encourages mothers to breastfeed in Sistine Chapel
Source: The Guardian Pope Francis has encouraged women attending a ceremony in the Sistine Chapel to feel free to breastfeed their children in the church. “The ceremony is a little […]
Reza Aslan On Why America Needs A Muslim ‘Modern Family’
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor As an American Muslim living in a climate of Islamophobia, Reza Aslan has had to develop a thick skin when speaking about […]
Muslim-Owned Eatery Offers Free Food To Anyone Who Needs It
Source: Huffington Post By Elyse Wanshel Associate Editor, Trends, The Huffington Post A small restaurant is giving with a big heart. Marché Ferdous, a Muslim-owned eatery in Montreal, hands […]
Vietnamese Refugee In Canada Now Helping Syrian Family Resettle
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor When Thuy Nguyen was just 12 years old, she left her native country of Vietnam and boarded a South Korean boat in […]
How American Colleges Became Bastions of Sex, Booze and Entitlement
Source: Time By Lisa Wade Lisa Wade is associate professor of sociology at Occidental College and the author of American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus. A demographic shift […]
Jerusalem lorry attack: Four Israelis soldiers killed
Source: BBC Four Israeli officer cadets have been killed in Jerusalem by a Palestinian man who rammed a lorry into them, in what police say was a terrorist attack. Three […]
Israel plot to ‘take down’ Tory minister: Astonishing undercover video captures diplomat conspiring with rival MP’s aide to smear Deputy Foreign Secretary
Israeli Embassy made vow to ‘take down’ Foreign Office deputy Sir Alan Duncan Bombshell footage covertly filmed in restaurant, obtained by Mail on Sunday Senior diplomat is egged on by a senior aide to another Conservative Minister By SIMON WALTERS POLITICAL EDITOR FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED: 7 January 2017 […]
Jerusalem attack: Four dead after lorry driver rams soldiers
Source: BBC Four people have died In Jerusalem after a suspected terrorist rammed a lorry into a group of soldiers, Israeli police say. “It is a terrorist attack, a ramming […]
India: Om Puri: ‘You could put him in any role and he would deliver’
NANDINI RAMNATH The acclaimed actor has died at the age of 66 from a heart attack Om Puri has died of a heart attack at the age of 66 — a sudden loss of one of Indian cinema’s most gifted actors, whose roles raged from raging intensity to […]
Muslim women visit Norwood House nursing home in Keighley
Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association with residents of Norwood House Nursing Home in Keighley / David Knights MEMBERS of a Keighley women’s group took a message of peace and harmony to the Norwood House Nursing Home. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association visited the home, in Greenthwaite Close, during […]
Macedonia’s ethnic Albanians demand country declared bilingual
ASSOCIATED PRESS SKOPJE, Macedonia Three ethnic Albanian political parties in Macedonia adopted a joint platform Saturday that demands a larger say in the country’s affairs in return for their support in forming a coalition government. Elections held last month gave the ruling conservative VMRO-DPMNE party 51 seats in the 120-member […]
Al-Farabi’s prayer
Promoted posts: We are all living in the Womb of God-the-Mother, 13.8 billion Years Pregnancy and After Monotheism, the Two Most Seminal Verses of the Quran As Al-Farabi combines the major strands of the Islamic intellectual tradition, his prayer is of particular importance not only for the students of Islamic philosophy but also for […]
Repair teams poised to begin work restoring Damascus water
By AFP – Jan 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES This frame grab from video provided By Yomyat Kzefeh Hawen Fi Dimashq (Diary of a Mortar Shell in Damascus), a Damascus-based media outlet that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows Syrian residents filling up buckets and gallons of spring water […]
Europe’s new ‘indispensable nations’
Jan 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Joschka Fischer After the shock of the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States in 2016, this will be a decisive year for Europe. Upcoming parliamentary elections in France, Germany, the Netherlands and possibly Italy will decide whether […]
Khasawneh attends Orthodox Christmas mass in Bethlehem
By JT – Jan 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III (centre) leads the midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank’s Bethlehem as Orthodox Christmas celebrations started on Saturday (AFP photo) AMMAN — Deputising for His Majesty King Abdullah, […]
The advertising guru harnessing Europe’s immigration fears
ALEXANDER SEGERT The advertising guru harnessing Europe’s immigration fears By Guy Chazan JAN 3, 2017 – A controversial poster from the Swiss People’s Party’s successful anti-minaret campaign in 2009 (Keystone) Swarms of black minarets bristle like missiles over a Swiss flag, next to a woman in a black burka. Black […]
Pakistani imam in Canada under police radar for hate speech against local publisher
Pakistan by Dawood Rehman | Published on January 5, 2017 🔗 CALGARY – Police in Canada are investigating allegations of hate speech by a local imam who called a publisher and its administration ‘devil’ and ‘kaafir’. Professor Syed Badiuddin Soharwardy, an imam at a mosque, has been under investigation by […]
17 Muslim American Women Who Made America Great In 2016
12/09/2016 Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post If there was ever a year that needed Muslim women to show the world just how great America already is, 2016 was it. Muslim Americans continue to face rising intolerance and Islamophobia as a result, in part, of aggressive attacks on their […]
Meet The 6 Religious Leaders Who Will Pray With Trump On Inauguration Day
The group includes two prosperity gospel preachers, one rabbi, one Catholic priest, one Hispanic Christian leader and the son of Billy Graham. 01/06/2017 03:59 pm ET Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post GETTY/FACEBOOKSix religious leaders will offer prayers and statements on Inauguration Day. When President-elect Donald Trump steps […]