By JT – Feb 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah has urged the world to invest in peace by giving refugees a future and assist host communities through a feasible approach that focuses on development and long-term planning. In an op-ed in The Independent published […]
Feb 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – PHILIP HAMMOND Today, the UK will co-host the conference “Supporting Syria and the region 2016”, with Germany, Kuwait, Norway and the United Nations. It will take an ambitious new approach to provide longer-term support for refugees through concrete action on livelihoods and jobs, and […]
Feb 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL HH Prince Zeid, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, has just issued a warning to all parties involved in the peace talks on the Syrian conflict, to not even think of granting amnesty to any person implicated in the commission of […]
Emotionally charged dreams that lessen the fear of death are surprisingly common. 10/26/2015 Carolyn GregoireSenior Health & Science Writer, The Huffington Post THOMAS BARWICK/GETTY IMAGES Barry, an 88-year-old patient in a hospice in upstate New York, had an extremely vivid dream one night in which he was driving somewhere unknown. […]
Source: Washington Post Organized religions have traditionally played a major role in charitable works — Christian and Muslim organizations have long established schools, hospitals and social service organizations. Catholic Charities […]
Source: BBC Barack Obama has condemned what he called “inexcusable political rhetoric” about Islam, an apparent reference to recent remarks by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. In his first visit […]
By Hannah Osborne August 5, 2015 15:30 BST IBTimes.co.uk Stephen Hawking has said that mini black holes could potentially provide enough energy to supply the world’s electricity demands – but could also destroy the planet. He made these comments as part of the BBC’s Reith lectures. The special series on black holes […]
The Muslim Times has the most extensive and the best collection on the theme of Religion & Science Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla, Religion Associate Editor When President Barack […]
Source: NPR President Obama is delivering remarks at a mosque in Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, in the first visit to an American mosque he’s made during his presidency. His visit, […]
Women at SC door for mosque gate-pass Source: Telegraph India New Delhi, Jan. 30: A group of Muslim women has decided to move the Supreme Court demanding entry into all […]
ascleiden.nl: The religious movement of the Ahmadiyya was founded by Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, an Indian Muslim scholar (1835-1908). It reached West Africa in the 1920s, but its importance in the West African public space only grew in the 1990s. Its followers combine the will for the restoration of true […]
Al Jazeera: On January 30, Latino Muslim leaders from around the United States gathered in Houston, Texas, for the opening of IslamInSpanish, a spacious, state-of-the-art community centre. As children bounced around […]
Nepali Times: At a time when ‘secularism’ has become something of a bad word in India, and the Hindu-right establishment in New Delhi is said to take a dim view of of neighbouring Nepal declaring itself ‘secular’ in its new constitution, a leading Indian thinker says the misunderstanding stems from […]
NY Times OP Ed: ISTANBUL — We Muslims like to believe that ours is “a religion of peace,” but today Islam looks more like a religion of conflict and bloodshed. From the civil wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen to internal tensions in Lebanon and Bahrain, to the dangerous rivalry […]
Source: CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN White House Producer Seeking to rebut what he views as perilous election-year bombast about Muslims, President Barack Obama heads Wednesday to a mosque in […]
A five-year-old Afghan boy, Murtaza Ahmadi, who became an internet star after a picture of him wearing a makeshift plastic Lionel Messi jersey went viral had his dream come true as he was seen wearing the Argentine football superstar’s Barcelona jersey. A visibly excited Murtaza Ahmadi was seen playing with […]
Source: BBC More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war. More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to […]
Source: BBC Zahi Khouri was nine when his Palestinian Christian family left their home in Jaffa. It was 1948; modern Israel was being born, and his parents, listening to the […]
Source: BBC A rare case of the Zika virus being transmitted through sex, not a mosquito bite, has been reported in the US. A patient infected in Dallas, Texas, is […]
Source: The Daily Beast A boy cuts off his own right hand because it offended God. Pedophilia is holy. To question is to risk execution. Welcome to a nation in […]