Egyptian Lawmakers Want to Ban Muslim Women from Covering Their Faces BY Lily Kuo: 08 March 2016 Egyptian lawmakers are pushing for a ban on the Niqab, a veil worn by women that covers most of one’s face, in what has become a fight over personal liberties and the government’s […]
Epigraph: “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Exodus 22:21 Israel’s Religiously Divided Society Source: Pew Research Forum Deep […]
Source: The Guardian Democrats assailed the amendment as hate masquerading as religious tolerance. Republicans took turns donning a “Beetlejuice”-style jacket on the senate floor. And both sides were invited to […]
Source: BBC A pioneering procedure to regenerate the eye has successfully treated children with cataracts in China. More than half of all cases of blindness are caused by cataracts – […]
Source: The Washington Post ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — During a speech to international business leaders here in late November, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif shocked the country’s powerful religious community by calling […]
Source: The Washington Post In D.C., where Republicans are scarce, Orthodox Jews actually are a large enough contingent to potentially affect the outcome of the GOP’s presidential primary that is scheduled […]
Source: Time ‘Because she is a woman, she has got our support’ U.N. Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka quietly acknowledged that she and U.N. Women support Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for […]
Source: New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama, resigned to his failure to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, is looking past his time in office and […]
Source: Time What TIME’s investigation into the real-estate seminars reveals The fate and reputation of Trump University, the adult education courses that carried Donald Trump’s name from 2005 to 2010, […]
Source: Time The White House will host an official state visit for the Canadian Prime Minister this week When President Obama first spoke to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last […]
Source: Daily Times LAHORE – Shahbaz Taseer – the abducted son of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer – will reach home on Wednesday (today) nearly after a gap of five […]
Can you tell the difference? Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Islamophobia has become frighteningly commonplace in the U.S. There’s a lot of hatred, misinformation and misplaced […]
Source: BBC Online activists targeting so-called Islamic State on social media say Twitter has suspended accounts which were being used to harass the terrorist group. An Anonymous hacker made the […]
Source: BBC A student pilot from Egypt has agreed to leave the US after posting on Facebook that the world would thank him if he killed Donald Trump. Emadeldin Elsayed, […]
Source: BBC Donald Trump has won three more states, Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii, in his bid to be the Republican White House nomination. In the Democratic race, Bernie Sanders had […]
A general view shows buildings under construction in the Israeli settlement of Har Homa in annexed east Jerusalem, on Monday. (AFP) AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Published — Wednesday 9 March 2016 pia: Starving Gaza animals are up for sale More JERUSALEM: Israel is razing Palestinian homes and other buildings constructed with […]
Mar 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – OSAMA AL SHARIF The US presidential race is attracting attention outside the United States because of the stark contrast among candidates, especially on the Republican side, over foreign policy and the increasing possibility that outsider billionaire Donald Trump could soon become the presumptive party […]
By AFP – Mar 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Syrians carry aid, in the form of diesel fuel, delivered by the Qatari Red Crescent in the rebel-held town of Beit Sawa, on the outskirts of the capital Damascus, on Monday (AFP photo) GENEVA — A new round of talks aimed […]
Source: RNS BEIJING (RNS) On a hazy Sunday morning, the fourth floor of a dingy gray office building in a far-flung region of this city is bursting with prayer. In […]
(RNS) Israel today grapples with profound existential questions of its national identity, including how Jewish the Jewish state can be. More than three-quarters (76 percent) of Israeli Jews believe their country can be both Jewish and democratic, a view rejected by majorities of Israeli Muslims and Christians, according to a comprehensive […]