By Rula Samain – Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Religious leaders and environmentalists on Saturday stressed the importance of safeguarding nature and protecting the environment. At a one day event organised by the Catholic Centre for Studies and Media in cooperation with Konard Adenauer Stiftung, Christian and […]
Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – MUSA KEILANI Geneva III negotiations were launched this week in the hope of putting an end to the civil war in Syria, which, after five years, killed more than quarter of a million citizens and forced 8 million to become refugees, according to the […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Syrians constitute 46 per cent of non-Jordanians living in the Kingdom and 13.2 per cent of the overall population, preliminary results of the national census conducted in late November showed on Saturday. Of Jordan’s total population of 9.5 million, […]
. ISLAM’S LEGACY OF PLURALISM By Moin Qazi, India Jalaluddin Rumi, in his epic Masnavi 4: 415-18: states I speak of plural souls in name alone – One soul becomes one hundred in their frames; Just as God’s single sun in heaven Shines on earth and lights a hundred walls […]
Source: Gulf News Scientists who scoured the DNA of brain tumours, searching gene by gene for bad actors, were puzzled. The cancers had none of the mutations in growth-causing genes […]
Source: Gulf News Washington: President Obama will make the first visit during his presidency to a US mosque, the White House announced on Saturday, part of the administration’s push to promote religious tolerance at a time when rhetoric linking Islam with terrorism is growing. On Wednesday, the president will visit […]
Source: Huffington Post Yusuf Islam / Cat Stevens Musician, Artist, Writer, Producer and Philanthropist As we settle down into the grip of another New Year, the past slips further away into […]
Source: BBC Last year a record 1.1 million people sought asylum in Germany – and while politicians have been busy arguing over how best to deal with the influx of […]
Source: BBC It looks like a fireball has been travelling through the sky. Not so: this is actually a cloud that was captured earlier this week by photographer and weather blogger […]
Source: BBC More than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving in Europe over the past two years, the EU’s police intelligence unit says. Europol said thousands of vulnerable […]
Source: BBC Alexandra Harris, Weatherland “My thinking about people and weather has been inspired from the first by Virginia Woolf,” writes Harris, whose Romantic Moderns won the Guardian First Book […]
Source: BBC At least 45 people have been killed in three blasts near the Shia shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media say. The Islamic […]
Source: CNN CNN)The arc of history is bending backward, away from freedom and justice. It’s not what was supposed to happen, but it’s the troubling reality revealed in a new […]
Source: Belfast Telegraph By Madiha Walker A graduate in Arabic and Islamic studies. She writes on social affairs and culture, with a specific interest in gender and Muslim women in […]
Maajid Nawaz joins John Barron on the ABC pane; show The Drum. He’s joined on the panel by Rebecca Weisser, John Stanley and Sara Saleh on the panel to talk […]
Source: Huffington Post By Sam Levine; Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post The visit comes after he called for Muslim Americans to help fight extremism. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to […]
From Masarrat Ahmad Mundasgar, President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Mumbai Times of India (Mumbai) published our news in today’s newspaper on page 9: Read it online here: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Tiny-Ahmadiyya-sect-to-hold-peace-meet/articleshow/50788521.cms
Source: Dawn PARIS: France will recognize a Palestinian state if its efforts to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at an international conference fail, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Friday. He told […]
Source: China Daily A container train linking China and Iran departed from Yiwu City in east China’s Zhejiang Province loaded with Chinese small commodities on Thursday morning. According to the […]
Source: Huffington Post By Kabir Helminski; Sufi shaikh and author Many Christians and Jews, ignorant of what the Qur’an proposes, instead project on Islam a version of intolerance and aggression from their […]