October 1, 2016 September 30 was the birth anniversary of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi master born in 1207, and the Rumi Day named in his honor as a globally acclaimed poet. Born in Balkh, then part of eastern Iran but now in Afghanistan, Rumi went to […]
Source: BuzzFeed News BEDFORD, N.H. — A Baptist pastor said he was forced to remove a “Black Lives Matter” T-shirt he was wearing Thursday at a Donald Trump campaign rally […]
Source: Associated Press By COREY WILLIAMS DETROIT (AP) — An Islamic academy will get $1.7 million and be allowed to build a new school after it settled a federal lawsuit against a Michigan township that initially denied its zoning request. The Michigan Islamic Academy will move ahead with plans to […]
Katy Romy / Flurina Rothenberger “If young people have access to these tools, maybe they won’t drown trying to reach Europe,” said Benjamin Yao, an Ivorian teacher, interpreting the hope behind MOOCs, free online courses open to everyone. The dream is to offer better educational prospects to a generation of […]
Source: RNS By Kimberly Winston Kimberly Winston is a freelance religion reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She covers atheism and freethought for RNS. RNS) The Internal Revenue Service has reclassified one of the most famous Christian organizations, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. At the request of the […]
Source: The New York Times By SAM ROBERTS Archbishop Peter L. Gerety, who as a liberal leader of the Roman Catholic Church in America gave voice to the laity, to […]
Source: BBC By David Robson James Flynn is worried about leaving the world to millennials. As a professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand, he regularly meets bright […]
Source: BBC By Inka Piegsa-Quischotte “My name,” said the lady, clad from headscarf to sandals in shades of pink and purple, “is Bahia, which means ‘ocean of beauty and compassion’ […]
Source: Time By Kevin Freking/Associated Press JERUSALEM — President Barack Obama hailed Shimon Peres Friday as a man who showed the world that justice and hope are at the heart of the Zionist ideal and saw “all people as deserving of dignity and respect.” Wearing a Jewish skullcap as a sign […]
Source: Time BY Alex Altman Robert and Rebekah Mercer have emerged as powerful players in Donald Trump’s campaign, not to mention the fight for the GOP’s future. What is it they […]
Source: Time By Alice park There’s even more reason to exercise, especially as you get older. While study after study confirms the benefits of physical activity for the heart, mind and body, many older adults do not follow a regular exercise regimen. The findings of a new study may compel […]
Source: Dawn By ZULQERNAIN TAHIR LAHORE: The Council of Complaints of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (Pemra) dismissed on Thursday the complaints of the minority Ahmadi community against two private TV channels as ‘non-maintainable’. The decision was made after a mob entered the Pemra office in the Cantonment area, asking […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights recently released a report criticizing religious exemptions that infringe on civil rights ― and some conservative […]
RAY HANANIA | Published — Saturday 1 October 2016 Ray Hanania Many Arabs believed newly elected President Barack Obama would re-balance America’s heavily pro-Israel foreign policy, including establishing a Palestinian State. In fact Obama didn’t disappoint Arab world or Palestinian expectations when he embraced Palestinian rights and acknowledged Palestinian […]
Source: The Daily Beast By Majid Nawaz Playboy magazine has just featured an article about a hijab-wearing Muslim-American, Noor Taguri, “making a forceful case for modesty.” Yes. You read that […]
Source: ET Aside from the obvious human cost, the repercussions of war between the nuclear-armed neighbours will be far-reaching. PHOTO SOURCE: NDTV As if the world did not have enough conflicts to handle, Pakistan and India are adding to the tension. While experts rule out a full-scale war between the […]
Source: Dawn ACROSS the world, the politics of anger has been playing out over the past year. And it has become shriller with the passage of time. Britain’s vote to exit the European Union and the rise of Donald Trump’s fiery brand of politics have been the most overt and […]
Source:Euractive.rs Omissions in the work of state institutions in cases of violence against women, primarily a lack of exchange of information, increase the number of fatal outcomes, according to the findings of Ombudsman Saša Janković. Improving the framework for suppressing violence against women is one of the criteria in Serbia’s […]
Source: Balkan Insight Bulgarian MPs on Friday banned the wearing of veils that cover the face – a bill proposed earlier this year by the nationalistic coalition, Patriotic Front. The so-called “burqa ban” was passed on a second reading with overwhelming support. In a sign of ethnic tension over the […]
September 30 2016 12:25 AM Officials at the Lives and Livelihoods Fund Impact Committee meeting yesterday. The Lives and Livelihoods Fund (LLF), announced two years ago by Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates and supported by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), the Islamic Solidarity Fund for Development (ISFD), Qatar, Saudi […]