Historic Vatican accord with Palestine takes effect
Source: AFP and Yahoo News January 2, 2016 The Vatican signed the accord in June, just over two years after the Roman Catholic Church recognised the Palestinian territories as a sovereign state […]
Syrian army launches assault against rebels near border with Israel
By Reuters – Dec 31,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A man carries an injured child amidst rubble near a burning vehicle in a site damaged from what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Assad in the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria on Wednesday […]
Saudi Arabia’s executions were worthy of Isis – so will David Cameron and the West now stop their grovelling to its oil-rich monarchs?
The executions were certainly an unprecedented Saudi way of welcoming in the New Year – if not quite as publicly spectacular as the firework display in Dubai which went ahead alongside the burning of one of the emirate’s finest hotels Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices 233 comments Saudi Defence […]
The Best Documentation of Muslim Heritage: Science and Islam, Jim Al-Khalili’s – BBC Documentary
Science and Islam is a three-part BBC documentary about the history of science in medieval Islamic civilization presented by Jim Al-Khalili. The series is accompanied by the book Science and […]
A reading list to expand your mind
Source: BBC David Robson – Writer My pick: How your eyes trick your mind It’s been a privilege to see my stories appear alongside the work of some really talented […]
New Twitter Policy Bans ‘Hateful Conduct’
Source: Huffington Post Twitter Inc has clarified its definition of abusive behavior that will prompt it to delete accounts, banning “hateful conduct” that promotes violence against specific groups. The social […]
2015 Proves That Our Solar System Is Way More Awesome Than We Realized
Source: Huffington Post We already know a lot about our solar system. It’s nearly 4.6 billion years old, andconsists of eight planets and five known dwarf planets, for starters. But […]
BCSO: ‘Ritualistic sacrifice’ not ruled out in child’s death
Source: News Herald CALLAWAY — Investigators have not ruled out that “ritualistic sacrifice” played a role in the death of a 3-year-old discovered in a suitcase with what appeared to be a knife wound to the chest, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office reported Wednesday. Investigators still were processing the scene […]
Accosted for her hijab, woman now teaches Muslim empowerment
Source: Associated Press When she was 16, Rana Abdelhamid was accosted on the streets of New York by a man who tried to pull off the head scarf she wears […]
Young Montrealers collect food to send larger message
Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association are delivering goods they’ve collecting during a food drive. Published Thursday, December 31, 2015 6:40PM EST A group of young Montrealers is delivering the goods they’ve collected during a holiday food drive, as they do every year. But this year, the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Pregnant Woman Sues Catholic Hospital For Not Letting Her Get Tubes Tied
Source: Buzz Feed On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union announced that it is suing Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital network, for refusing to provide a woman with the tubal […]
Jewish and Muslim hate crimes soar in London
Source: Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Attacks on Jews and Muslims in London, including assault and harassment, have soared by more than 60 percent over the past year, police statistics […]
Your favorite Fact Tank data in 2015
Source: Pew Research Center When Pew Research Center started the Fact Tank data blog back in 2013, our goal was to present data that would help people better understand the news of the day. But in looking at our top blog posts of 2015, we realized that the pieces we published often made news, too. […]
Time to call Trump out on degrading views
Source: CNN By Donna Brazile, A CNN contributor and a Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for civic engagement and voter participation at the Democratic National Committee. A nationally syndicated columnist, she […]
Students Who Killed Atheist Bangladeshi Writer Sentenced to Death
Source: Time Ahmed Rajib Haider was hacked to death in 2013 Two students in Bangladesh were sentenced to death on Thursday for killing a prominent atheist writer and blogger in […]
The amazing survival of the Baltic Muslims
Source: BBC It may not be the kind of place you would expect to stumble upon a mosque, but Muslims have lived among the forests and lakes of Lithuania for […]
Chicken grows face of dinosaur
Source: BBC Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid is believed to have crashed into Earth. The impact wiped out huge numbers of species, including almost all of the dinosaurs. One […]
Indonesian couple caned for violating Sharia law, police official says
Source: CNN Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)An unrelated man and woman who had been seen alone together were caned in public in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, for violating Sharia law, a police chief […]
Asia Bibi, under sentence of death for blasphemy in Pakistan, forgives her persecutors
Ruth Gledhill CHRISTIAN TODAY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 30 December 2015 Asia Bibi is in prison in Multan in Punjab, awaiting the result of her appeal against her conviction for blasphemy. Asia Bibi, the Christian woman who has spent her seventh Christmas behind bars under death sentence in Pakistan for blasphemy, has […]
UK Soldiers May Face Iraq War Crime Charges
An inquiry into allegations of murder, abuse and torture by British forces between 2003 and 2009 could result in prosecutions. 05:02, UK,Saturday 02 January 2016 skynews.com British soldiers may face prosecution for war crimes, an inquiry head says Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share by […]