Huff Post: Welcome to this week’s ALL TOGETHER, the podcast dedicated to exploring how religious ideas and spiritual practice inform and shape our personal lives, our communities and our world. The show is hosted by Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, the Executive Editor of HuffPost Religion. This week we talk to […]
Authorities in Makkah have thwarted plans for a beauty pageant in the holy city, citing the Shariah law that prohibits such a show as reason for the decision. The pageant, […]
By Pamela Constable November 14 at 11:07 PM In a corner of Washington National Cathedral, several hundred Muslim worshipers and other invited guests gathered Friday afternoon for a first-ever recitation […]
292. Commandment to give full measure and full weight, and diminish not unto people their things [7:86] And to Midian We sent their brother Shu‘aib. He said, ‘O my people, worship Allah; you have no other deity but Him. A clear Sign has indeed come to you from your Lord. So […]
294. Commandment – do not cut off the highway for travellers (for theft and robbery) [29:30] ‘Do you indeed come lustfully to men and cut off the highway for travellers? And you commit abomination in your meetings!’ But the only answer of his people was that they said, ‘Bring upon us the punishment […]
293. Commandment – if an unrighteous person brings you any news, ascertain the correctness of the report fully [49:7] O ye who believe! if an unrighteous person brings you any news, ascertain the correctness of the report fully, lest you harm a people in ignorance, and then become repentant for what you have […]
Guardian: Misrepresentative portrayals of Muslims and other minorities will not stop unless newspapers are threatened with sanctions, Mehdi Hasan said yesterday. The columnist and political director of the Huffington Post […]
Multi-faith clergy pray at Nevada Governor’s Mansion seeking God’s mercy on Ebola In a remarkable interfaith gesture, faith leaders from various traditions prayed together in Nevada Governor’s Mansion in Carson City (USA) on November 13 evening seeking God’s mercy on Ebola and for its worldwide victims and their loved […]
The Star: A Sheffield mosque is to hold a peace conference to commemorate the centenary of the start of World War I. The Bait-ul-Afiyat Mosque in Sussex Street is to […]
FP: The U.N. secretary-general is the world’s chief diplomat, but most of the world doesn’t get much say in who gets the nod. In the end, it’s the U.N. Security […]
theguardian: by Angela Manoghan — The research by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman [pdf] illustrates the evolution of wealth inequality over the last century. The chart shows how the top 0.1% of families now own roughly the same share of wealth as the bottom 90%. The picture actually improved in the […]
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvilla — On Friday, the the Washington National Cathedral was filled with the sounds of Muslim prayers. Muslims and people of other religious traditions have participated in Christian […]
theguardian: by Owen Bowcott — Lawyers pursuing compensation claim on behalf of child, say mother’s heavy drinking constitutes crime of poisoning The case has triggered a debate about the rights of the foetus and calls for women who drink excessively during pregnancy to be prosecuted. Pevere damage inflicted on an […]
Amal El-Wahabi is the first person in the U.K. found guilty of funding Syrian terrorism LEON NEAL / AFP/Getty Images FILE PHOTO Amal El-Wahabi, a British woman who tried to send 20,000 euros ($25,000) to her husband fighting with the Islamic State group in Syria has been jailed for 28 […]
Source: patch.com Members of the widely persecuted Ahmadiyya Muslim Community work for peace and justice in various ways, one of which is that every member aims to give a copy of […]
Source: graphic.com.gh The Agona Swedru branch of the Local Council of Churches has presented 10 mattresses valued at GH¢1,200 to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Hospita at Agona Swedru. The donation was to […]
Source: youtube.com/mtaOnline1 Fatih Matter is an informative and contemporary English question and answer programme exploring various matters relating to faith and religion. The question being asked is regarding the use of […]
Nov 11 (Reuters) – The Mormon church has admitted that founder Joseph Smith married about 40 women including a 14-year-old and others who were already the wives of his followers, […]
Dawn: ISLAMABAD – Pakistani-Briton Ayan Qureshi, who has only just started going to primary school, successfully completed the assessment to become the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional on the planet. A five-year-old kid broke the previous record of six and a half by passing the exam at the age of five […]
Barbarity of burning a Christian couple alive in Pakistan is worse than the beheadings by the Islamic State. Haroon Siddiqui, Thestar.com 2014/11/12 ASIF HASSAN / AFP/GETTY IMAGES Pakistani minority Christians protest the murder of a Christian couple who were killed for alleged blasphemy in a small village in the province […]