WHAT REALLY GOES ON AT A MUSLIM MOSQUE?
24 FEB 2016 POSTED BY SHEHLA AHMAD, AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY TACKLING THE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT MUSLIM PLACES OF WORSHIP. President Obama recently made his first official visit to an American mosque. […]
PERSONNEL POLICIES: What Companies Can Do When Work and Religion Conflict
Kabrina Krebel Chang MARCH 15, 2016 Since 2007, the number of complaints for religious discrimination filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has risen significantly. It’s not hard to see why: An increase in immigrants of diverse faiths, greater workforce diversity, and the globalization of business all play […]
Britain’s first female-led mosque will not segregate men & women
Source: RT Female Muslims from the North of England plan to launch a mosque in Bradford open to all, but the first to be led entirely by women, it has […]
Prophet Muhammad’s Covenants with Christians
The historic covenants the Prophet Muhammad made with Christians could lead to greater tolerance and understanding today, according to a new research paper. Craig Considine, a sociology lecturer from Rice […]
Six scientists on the relationship between science and religion
The argument that to believe in God and to believe in science is irreconcilable is one that believers of every faith are used to (and tired of) hearing. None more […]
Education Matters UC’s intolerance policy goes dangerously astray on anti-Semitism
Source: Los Angeles Times For almost a year, the University of California has been struggling to address complaints that campus protests against Israel have crossed the line into harassment of […]
Franciscan leaders charged in child sex abuse case
Source: Pittsburg Post Gazette Actions by attorney general’s office represent one of the broadest-ever drives to hold Roman Catholic church accountable for clergy abuses of minors. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — One […]
Why a Contested GOP Convention Just Got More Likely
Source: Time Republican voters handed down a split decision Tuesday that suggests the race for the party’s nomination will go all the way to Cleveland, raising the prospect of a […]
CDC Releases National Standards for Prescription Painkillers
Source: Time It’s a step aimed at preventing prescription drug abuse and addiction The federal government published the first national standards for prescription painkillers on Tuesday in an attempt to combat the country’s prescription drug abuse crisis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the nonbinding rules to address […]
The world’s largest spider is the size of a dinner plate
Source: BBC You might think you would notice an eight-legged animal the size of a dinner plate, but in fact many of the world’s biggest spiders are easily overlooked. In […]
Did Charles Darwin use his children for science
Source: BBC When William Erasmus Darwin was born in December 1839, his father Charles began to meticulously record observations of his firstborn in a notebook. Now housed at Cambridge University […]
The hidden maths in great art
Source: BBC Art and mathematics. For many, this would appear to be synonymous with chalk and cheese. One is the domain of emotional expression, passion and aesthetics. The other, a […]
The secrets of success in India
Source: BBC Every year, Professor Dora Koop leaves her home in Montreal to teach a 10-day business school programme in India. Among her favourite pastimes there is observing something uniquely […]
Muslims, Protestants and Jews share common concerns in 2016 election
Source: RNS (RNS) This election season, Muslims face a slate of Republican candidates who demand curbs on immigration and compete over how tough they’d be on Islamic terrorism, if elected. […]
Switzerland loses top spot in happiness report
WHERE LIFE IS GOOD Switzerland loses top spot in happiness report By Simona Verrazzo MAR 16, 2016 – 11:08 Sunset along the shores of Lake Zug: the Swiss remain among the happiest in the world, at least according to the 2016 World Happiness Report. (Keystone) Switzerland’s status as the world’s […]
Syria peace talks in Geneva: where are we now?
EXPLAINER By Simon Bradley, Geneva MAR 14, 2016 – 11:26 A child injured in an unidentified bombing at Douma, north-east of Damascus, Syria on 10 March 2016 (Keystone) United Nations-brokered talks aimed at ending Syria’s five-year civil war are getting underway in Geneva on Monday. Here is a short guide […]
Female flight crew lands in S Arabia
Three Royal Brunei Airlines pilots have made history by being the company’s first all-female flight crew, making their first journey to Saudi Arabia, where women are not allowed to drive.The […]
China opens a new university every week
Source: BBC China has outstripped the US and Europe in graduate numbers and the gap is growing wider Global education Tuition fees: Is England more expensive than US? Top 10 […]
Europe’s ‘warehouse of souls’
MAHIR ALI WWW.ARABNEWS.COM Published — Wednesday 16 March 2016 IT is wise of Angela Merkel not to have panicked in the wake of setbacks for her Christian Democrats (CDU) in Sunday’s three regional elections. The German chancellor acknowledged the blow, but discounted the likelihood of abrupt changes to […]
A moral threshold to combat racism in Israel
Mar 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZI BAROUD Condemnations of the boycott of Israel seem to have fallen on deaf ears. Calls from Western governments, originating from the UK, the US, Canada and others, to criminalise the boycott of Israel have hardly slowed down the momentum of the pro-Palestinian boycott, […]