Reactions to the new fashion line are mixed. Earlier this month, Dolce & Gabbana garnered international headlines when the Italian fashion line announced it had designed a new hijab and abaya collection for Muslim […]
Fariha Khan Become a fanAhmadi Muslim, GP, Writer in progress Posted: 22/01/2016 David Cameron saying that “Muslim women must learn English” makes a catchy headline. Something that made everyone stop in their tracks and listen to what he had to say, no matter what side of the argument you […]
Interview Conducted by David Böcking and Stefan Kaiser in Davos SPIEGEL.DE REUTERS German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble says that Europe needs to invest as much money as possible as quickly as it can in the Middle East and North Africa to slow migration. Thus far, Europe has failed to […]
dw.com © Provided by Deutsche Welle The US has imposed new visa requirements on 38 nationalities – including most Europeans – that have recently traveled to Iran, Syria, Iraq or Yemen. Added restrictions also imposed on dual citizens of those countries.Washington on Thursday began requiring visas for Europeans and Asians […]
By Craig Consindine, who is a Catholic American of Irish and Italian descent. Craig is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Rice University in Houston, Texas As an advocate […]
NY Times Op Ed: KARACHI, Pakistan — According to our security analysts, the massacre of students and teachers at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on Wednesday proves that we are winning against terrorism. A month before that, Pakistan marked the first anniversary of the Army Public School attacks in Peshawar, […]
http://ottawacitizen.com: The Liberal government is facing pressure to keep the Office of Religious Freedom open, after representatives from three influential faith groups wrote Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion on Friday asking him not to scrap it. The open letter from organizations representing Jewish, Sikh and Ahmadiyya Muslim Canadians underscores the potential political cost […]
Source: National Post Saskatchewan January 21, 2016 Right now, La Loche is devastated,” said an emotional First Nation chief after at least five people were killed, two were in critical condition and a suspect was taken into custody after a daytime shooting at the community school in the northern Saskatchewan community. Those in the remote […]
Source: Press Release Nadia Raza, a long-time tenured faculty member and award-winning teacher at Lane Community College, filed a lawsuit against LCC today because of its failure to respond effectively […]
Source: BBC Migrants arriving in Finland are being offered classes on Finnish values and how to behave towards women. Concerned about a rise in the number of sexual assaults in […]
Source: BBC A huge blizzard bearing down on the US east coast is expected to dump near-record levels of snow on Washington and the Mid-Atlantic region. More than 50 million […]
Source: Magic Valley BOISE • A bill challenging Idaho’s exemptions for faith healers whose children are injured or die could have a better shot at a hearing this year. “If […]
Source: BBC Gambia’s President, Yahya Jammeh, declared his West African country an Islamic republic, at a political rally, on 11 December – making it Africa’s second, after Mauritania. The president justified his announcement by saying he was breaking from The Gambia’s colonial past. The announcement was unexpected and similar to […]
Source: Al Jazeera Police in Tajikistan have shaved nearly 13,000 people’s beards and closed more than 160 shops selling traditional Muslim clothing last year as part of the country’s fight […]
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer By Tricia L. Nadolny, Staff Writer As Philadelphia City Council returned Thursday for its first meeting of the new term, bills were offered that would add teeth […]
Source: The Guardian The tying of a severed pig’s head to the gates of an Islamic school is being treated by police as a hate crime. The head was found […]
Source: Time Al-Shabab, the Islamic extremist group, claimed responsibility for the attack (MOGADISHU, Somalia) — Somalia’s security forces ended a deadly siege of a beachfront restaurant in the capital, with […]
The most unusual tribunal in the republic meets around 25 times per year, usually on Tuesdays in the gray-panelled conference room on the third floor of the Reichstag where conservative parliamentarians often meet. At the front sits the defendant, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her accusers sit at the long rows […]
Source: RT.com China has openly declared that it supports the independence of a Palestinian state which has East Jerusalem as its capital. Addressing the Arab League, the Chinese president also […]
By Lauren Markoe, who covered government and features as a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years before joining the Religion News Service staff as a national correspondent in 2011 (RNS) […]