Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood in Rome It was a typical Pope Francis touch, and one in keeping with the extraordinary life story of Saint Teresa of Kolkata, as the Catholic […]
Source: The Guardian A year after the worst hajj disaster in a generation, Saudi Arabia is issuing pilgrims with electronic bracelets and using more surveillance cameras to avoid a repeat […]
Source: BBC Angela Merkel’s ruling CDU party has been beaten into third place by an anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party in elections in a north-eastern German state, TV exit polls suggest. […]
Source: RT Italian politicians and the public are fuming over a “disgusting” satirical cartoon published by controversial French weekly Charlie Hebdo, which made fun of the victims of an earthquake […]
Source: Deccan Chronicle Lahore: A court has cleared all the 46 people accused of attacking a church and houses of Christians in a neighbourhood near Lahore’s Sanda police station over faulty investigation and prosecution. Reports suggest that the mob had attacked the Christian neighbourhood after accusing one of the residents […]
Source: The Daily Beast By JAMES KIRCHICK Hamdi Ulukaya is the model American immigrant success story. In 2005, the Turkish-born Kurdish entrepreneur purchased a defunct Kraft foods plant in […]
Source: Rabwah Times Karlsruhe, a German city close to the French border is hosting Germany’s largest annual Islamic convention this weekend. Over 35,000 Muslims are expected to attend the Jalsa […]
Source: Times Of India DHAKA: Bangladesh‘s fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami leader and media tycoon Mir Quasem Ali was hanged on Saturday night, the sixth Islamist to be executed for war crimes committed during the country’s 1971 Liberation War against Pakistan. Ali was hanged in Kashimpur Central Jail on the outskirts of the […]
Source: Religion News Service By Martin E. Marty, who is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addresses non-Ahmadi guests and members of Lajna Imaillah on day 2 of Jalsa Salana Germany. On Saturday 3 September 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad addressed an audience of more than 1,000 non-Ahmadi […]
Source: The Teaching Company By Professor Mark W. Muesse, Ph.D. Rhodes College The first of these 24 half hour videos can be watched online in Youtube. What is meditation? For thousands […]
theguardian: by Mazin Sidahmed — Nazma Khanam’s death comes just weeks after two men were shot in the back of the head after midday prayers, rocking the Queens Bangladeshi community The NYPD has no leads on who the killer is or what the motive may be, but many members of […]
Source: Time By Nikhil Kumar As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sept. 4, a string of top Indian politicians are heading to the Vatican to witness her canonization, underlining her popularity in her adopted home. Born in Skopje in present day […]
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin Certain ingredients that are common in antibacterial hand and body soaps are no longer allowed. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Friday […]
Source: Time BY Justin Worland Nearly 15% of land on earth is now protected, though some key areas needed to preserve biodiversity have been left out, according to a new […]
Source: Motto By Kate Samuelson Victoria Beckham has penned a powerful and sympathetic letter to her 18-year-old self, to accompany her cover shoot for the October issue of British Vogue. The mother-of-four reveals the insecurities with her looks and weight that she felt during her teenage years. “You are not […]
Source: BBC By David Robson Could you be fooled into “seeing” something that doesn’t exist? Matthew Tompkins, a magician-turned-psychologist at the University of Oxford, has been investigating the ways that […]
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) Long before the grand opening neared for the Smithsonian’s new museum devoted to African-American history, Amirah Muhammad had a difficult decision to […]
Source: USA Today Catholic Charities announced Thursday it is closing its adoption services and pregnancy counseling. The agency only placed two children in adoptive homes in 2015. Historically low teenage pregnancy rates and greater acceptance of single parenting has meant there was less need for the services. “The world has […]
Source: AJC By Chris Joyner The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Two days after news broke of a proposed mosque outside of Covington, Newton County Commission Chairman Keith Ellis confided to a constituent […]