PALMYRA, Syria (AFP) – Leading Russian musicians on Thursday staged a classical concert in the ancient theatre of Syria’s ravaged Palmyra in a show by the Kremlin to herald its successes in the war-torn country. Famed conductor Valery Gergiev led Saint Petersburg’s celebrated Mariinsky orchestra through pieces by Johann […]
RIYADH (AFP) – Saudi police shot dead two suspected militants and two others blew themselves up during a raid near the holy city of Mecca on Thursday, the interior ministry said. “The terrorists started shooting towards security forces, which they responded to”, leading to the deaths of a pair of suspects […]
Epigraph And when My servants ask you about Me, say: I am near. I answer the prayer of the supplicant when he prays to Me. So they should lend an […]
Source: The Guardian By Sam Levin in San Francisco Seven Muslim women who were kicked out of a southern California restaurant are suing the business for discrimination, alleging that they were […]
Source: Clevland By Eric Heisig, cleveland.com CINCINNATI, Ohio — A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the criminal convictions against more than a dozen members of an Amish community who […]
Source: BBC Police in Pakistan say village elders ordered the murder of a teenage girl because she had helped a school friend to elope. The 16-year-old was kidnapped from her […]
Source: BBC By Melissa Hogenboom 5 May 2016 There are many factors to consider when looking at the success of a species. Habitat, hunting prowess and how quickly it can […]
Source: BBC The European Commission has proposed reforms to EU asylum rules that would see stiff financial penalties imposed on countries refusing to take their share of asylum seekers. The […]
Source: Huffington Post By Mette Ivie Harrison Mormon in progress, mother of 5, author of ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ and ‘His Right Hand,’ Princeton PhD, All-American triathlete As I sat in church […]
Source: New Republic BY JOSEPH P. LAYCOCK Last month, my colleagues and I were moved by a beautiful and tragic New York Times editorial by Kate Bowler, a religion professor […]
Source: The New York Times By RUSSELL GOLDMAN What in the World offers you glimpses of what our journalists are observing around the globe. Let us know what you think:whatintheworld@nytimes.com […]
Source: The Washington Post By Adam Taylor As Londoners go to the polls on Thursday, Sadiq Khan is widely expected to win the election to become the city’s mayor. If he does, […]
Source: The Atlantic By MICHAEL O’LOUGHLIN Property-tax battles are rarely sexy. But a case now in front of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, about whether the 21 religious brothers and sisters […]
Source: Crux By Ines San Martin Vatican correspondent ROME— Probably the most trusted adviser to Pope Francis, and a man who holds the position traditionally considered the Vatican’s “Prime Minister,” […]
Source: Yahoo Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked challenged British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to crack down hard on Wednesday after fresh allegations of anti-Semitism in its […]
Source: Aljazeera Five people have appeared in a Pakistani court accused of blasphemy after a Sikh man complained they had desecrated his turban during a scuffle over a delayed bus. […]
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) Not all Americans […]
Source: Economist OVER the past few weeks, reports have been published in both Canada and Britain about the state of Muslim citizens’ opinion on a broad range of topics. The […]
By Ghulam Misbah Baloch, AMJ Missionary, Jamia Ahmadiyya Canada- Translated & updated by Zakaria Virk, Toronto 30-4-2016 Original article was published in Urdu in al-Fazl Int. London 18-24 March 2016. A shorter version was published in Ahmadiyya Gazette Canada. http://www.ahmadiyyagazette.ca/Articles/some-eminent-christian-scholars-in-qdin.html People visit places for various reasons i.e. education, pleasure, or business. […]
IBTimes.co.uk Top IDF officer compares modern Israel to 1930s Germany in bombshell speech – zakaria.virk@gmail.com – Gmail Voters are heading to the polls to have their say in elections for the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly of Wales, the Northern Ireland Assembly and 124 councils in England in what has been […]