Religion News Service: Every election cycle an elaborate courtship ritual goes on between political candidates and clergy. Watch for it in 2016. Candidates seek out major clergy (and denominational officials, and activists, etc.) to…help validate their candidacies; (appear to) seek advice; appeal to certain constituencies; reach large in-person audiences; get pictures […]
By Ed Stetzer | December 30, 2015 | 14 Comments (RNS) Americans are overwhelmingly concerned about religious liberty — that’s good. What’s troubling, but perhaps not surprising, is that they […]
New Republic: An Appetite for Wonder: The Makings of a Scientist by Richard Dawkins (Ecco Press) If an autobiography can ever contain a true reflection of the author, it is nearly always found in a throwaway sentence. When the world’s most celebrated atheist writes of the discovery of evolution, Richard […]
Economist: ORHAN OSMANOGLU cradles a French handkerchief embossed with the letter H. “This is all I have left that’s my great-great-grandfather’s, the caliph’s,” he says. His family has fallen far since those illustrious days. Abdulhamid II lived in a palace, Yildiz, in the heart of Ottoman Istanbul; Orhan lives in […]
A 63-storey skyscraper in downtown Dubai that was engulfed by fire on Thursday has been evacuated and the blaze is 90 percent under control, authorities in the Gulf emirate said. Large tongues of flame shooting skywards enveloped the luxury hotel and residential block, which lies across a plaza from the […]
Prof Larycia Hawkins, was fired for saying that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. Kelly James Clark 29/12/2015 Suppose there is a God who a long, long time ago spoke to Abraham, promising to bless the world through his descendants. Suppose his descendants told their friends who told their […]
Source: China Daily For the first time, Merkel’s New Year’s speech, which centers around the current refugee crisis this year, has been translated into Arabic. The version with Arabic […]
The video is courtesy of Bilal Aslam Khan Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The so called Muslim scholars putting fuel on […]
It is reported that Hadhrat Khalifa-tul-Masih IV. – before he was elected Khalifa – during his stay in London was in town during the New Year’s Eve celebrations. When it was time for the New Year he took a Newspaper and put it on the floor and performed some ‘Nawafil’ […]
Source: Newsweek BY LUCY WESTCOTT ON 12/30/15 AT 9:04 PM The “True Islam” campaign, created by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, aims to correct misconceptions about the religion and unite […]
By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Wishing a happy and a prosperous new year 2017 to all our readers from the whole of our Editorial […]
Source: Pulitzer Center BY NICK SHINDO STREET A light rain was falling as young men and women — some in hip European street clothes, others in hijabs or ankle-length robes […]
By Taryn Finley; Black Voices Associate Editor, The Huffington Post The traditional image of Jesus as a blue-eyed, blonde-haired white man is historically inaccurate. In her latest video for MTV […]
Source: Huffington Post By Gail Stearns Dean of Wallace All Faiths Chapel, Chapman University, Mindfulness facilitator I am privileged to work in a context where I meet amazing and very […]
For 70 years, a slice of the Atlantic Ocean has spawned conspiracy theories to explain the disappearance of planes and ships Image Credit: Published: 10:45 December 31, 2015 By Giles Milton Add to My Gulf News SHARE The message picked up by the control tower was as bizarre as it […]
Source: Dawn Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo refrained from openly rejecting the idea of joining the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition of 34 countries to fight terrorism, but his chief security […]
Source: Sentinel and Enterprise By SABAHAT AHMED member of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Fitchburg Chapter Currently, I identify as a Muslim, but have to wonder, if I […]
Over 250,000 carpets with estimated market value of Dh2.5 billion go on display in Dubai World Trade Centre Image Credit: Clint Egbert/Gulf News This year’s Carpet and Art Oasis is one of the main highlights of the 21st Edition of the Dubai Shopping Festival. Published: 16:11 December 30, 2015 Mary […]
Source: Huffington Post When early Catholic and Protestant missionaries came to China in the 16th through the 19th centuries, they found that something called the “Mandate of Heaven” (天命) was […]
President Muhammadu Buhari. (Reuters) AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Published — Thursday 31 December 2015 LAGOS: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday said he had no new intelligence on some 200 schoolgirls kidnapped almost two years ago, and that his government would negotiate with any “credible” Boko Haram leadership for their release. […]