Source: BBC By Asad Hashim Pakistan’s lower house of parliament has passed a landmark bill giving its small Hindu minority the right to register marriages, the last major hurdle on the way to enacting a law aimed at protecting women’s rights. Activists say that Hindu women have been disproportionately targeted […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)With Adele’s song “All I Ask” playing in the background, a Maryland teenager opened her computer and wrote an emotional letter to […]
Source: Time By Zeke J Miller / Hempstead, N.Y. @ZekeJMiller&Philip Elliott Perhaps you can’t wing your way to the White House. At the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, authenticity proved to be no substitution for preparation. Strong words faded in the face of solid experience. And, in a […]
Source: Time By Joshua Goodman and Andrea Rodriguez / AP The 2,500 guests at the ceremony were asked to wear white as a sign of peace (CARTAGENA, Colombia) — Colombia’s government […]
Source: BBC By Anthony Zurcher; North America reporter It was a battle between the lawyer and the salesman, and for the most part the lawyer came out on top. It […]
US Secretary of State defends diplomatic efforts as Aleppo burns under a ferocious Russian-backed attack by the Syrian regime Bethan McKernan Beirut The US has been boxed into a corner in the face of a huge Russian-backed military escalation in the Syrian civil war, several experts have said. US Secretary […]
SEPT. 26, 2016 GAZA (Ma’an) — Israeli forces have prevented a Palestinian woman from leaving the blockaded Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing for a medical exam at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Tel Aviv.According to statement from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PHCR) released Monday, 52-year […]
Source: Time (HOUSTON) — A disgruntled lawyer wearing military-style apparel with old Nazi emblems had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition when he randomly shot at drivers in a Houston neighborhood Monday before he was shot and killed by police, authorities said. Nine people were injured […]
SEPT. 27, 2016 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities carried out a large number of demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank on Tuesday, destroying two family apartment buildings, a classroom, a restaurant, four water cisterns, and parts of a home in the latest instances of a policy which […]
By RAMZY MARDINISEPT. 27, 2016 Photo Peshmerga forces during an operation to liberate villages under the control of the Islamic State southeast of Mosul, Iraq, in August. CreditAndrea Dicenzo/European Pressphoto Agency ERBIL, Iraq — A military push to recapture Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, and the rest of Nineveh Province […]
Press Release: The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at, the Caliph, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad set to arrive in Canada The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada is excited […]
Source: Toronto Star Trump continues his pattern of unprecedented serial lying while Hillary Clinton makes four false claims. WASHINGTON—Again, there was no contest: Donald Trump was by far more dishonest than […]
Source: CNN Hempstead, New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton stepped onto the debate stage Monday night determined to show that only one candidate is ready to be president. Clinton poked, prodded and […]
http://yuseflateef.com; “Yusef Lateef has been a beacon of inspiration to the music world for many years. A devout (Ahmadi) Muslim, Yusef is beloved by Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and people of every stripe all over the world. He has had an enormous spiritual impact on all of us and has […]
By Raed Omari – Sep 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The government-owned National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) on Monday signed an agreement with Noble Energy under which the latter will provide 40 per cent of the Kingdom’s electricity-generating needs. In remarks to The Jordan Times on Monday, NEPCO […]
Sep 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh A new phase in the Syrian crisis was triggered by the Turkish intervention in the north of the country. While there are many reasons for this Turkish move, it very quickly ended the dream of a Kurdish state, which has been floated recently. […]
Sep 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY Elliott Abrams, a former Reagan and Bush administration official and a former colleague on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), wrote the article “The United States bars Christian, not Muslim, refugees from Syria”, provocative, as its title suggests, but […]
By JT – Sep 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah speaks to Scott Pelley of CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ during a recent interview (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah has said that “misunderstanding” of Islam and the region among Western allies and […]
theguardian: by Kate Hodal — Ministers and academics from France, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Italy, Hungary and UK will vie to succeed Margaret Chan as director general in July 2017 Margaret Chan will step down next summer after a decade at the helm of the World Health Organisation. Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters Six […]
theguardian: by Farrah Jarral — Margaret Ann Bulkley spent much of her life dressed as a man so that she could practice medicine – she was not the only one to go to such lengths. As the Medical Women’s Federation prepares to celebrate its centenary, one GP examines how much […]