Pope Francis: Vatican begins landmark synod to discuss family life
Source: BBC Pope Francis opened the synod with a mass at the Vatican’s St Peter’s Basilica on Sunday morning Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories Francis: The […]
How the world’s health organizations failed to stop the Ebola disaster
A Perfect Storm…. Possible Pandemic By 2015… CDC Director: ‘A Scene Out Of Dante… WHO: ‘We Could Have Responded Faster’… Mothers Afraid To Touch Their Children… Hopes Pinned On Radical […]
Ahmadi Muslim Ataul Quddous Ahmed to raise £35,000 for 8 different charities
Source: birminghammail.co.uk More than 150 people covered distances of 5km and 10km in the first Where’s Wally run in the city to help the National Literacy Trust. First to cross the finish line in the 10k was Ataul Quddous Ahmed, a 27-year-old journalism student who’s raising £35,000 for eight different charities. He said: […]
USA: “Muslims for Life” blood drive to be held in Lexington
Source: kentucky.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA is holding its fourth annual nationwide Muslims for Life blood drives between Aug. 15 and Nov. 15. In Lexington, the blood drive will take […]
Ghana: President John Dramani Mahama Donates To Muslim Community In Wa
Source: news.peacefmonline.com President John Dramani Mahama has donated 50 bags of rice and 50 boxes of cooking oil valued at GH₵13,500.00 to the Muslim Community in Wa to help in the […]
Metro transports nearly 1m pilgrims
MAKKAH: HANI HAZAIMEH Published — Sunday 5 October 2014 Makkah’s state-of-the-art metro will have transported nearly one million pilgrims by the end of this Haj season, said a top official. […]
Woman completes co-wife’s family — gives her a boy and then a girl
MINA: SIRAJ WAHAB Published — Sunday 5 October 2014 Some stories are too strange to be believed. One such is that of a 46-year-old pilgrim from Aurangabad in India’s Maharashtra state. It is a story of sacrifice and love for another human being. Yusuf Khan was married to Parveen Jahan […]
Palestinian problem is central to region, but Israelis control U.S. foreign policy – Brahimi
Philip Weiss on September 27, 2014 In The Nation, Barbara Crossette interviews Lakhdar Brahimi, 80, the Algerian who served as a leading diplomat for the United Nations over a couple […]
Noam Chomsky: Only One Thing Will Make Israel Change Course
Israel’s brutalization of Palestinians through exercises like “mowing the lawn” will persist without a change in U.S. policy. BY NOAM CHOMSKY For a century, the Zionist colonization of Palestine has proceeded primarily on the pragmatic principle of the quiet establishment of facts on the ground, which the world was to […]
First womb-transplant baby born
Source: BBC Health A woman in Sweden has given birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb, in a medical first, doctors report. The 36-year-old mother, who was born without a uterus, received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s. The British medical journal The Lancet says […]
Biden apologizes to Turkish president for ISIS remarks
Russia Today: US Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after alleging that the leader allowed foreign fighters allied with the Islamic State to cross into Syria. Erdogan was outraged over the remark. READ MORE: Biden blames US allies in Middle East for rise of ISIS […]
Ben Affleck Blasts Bill Maher for Racist Views on Islam During Heated Debate (Video)
thewrap.com: “Your argument is, ‘You know, black people, they shoot each other,’” Affleck tells the “Real Time” host Ben Affleck and Bill Maher engaged in a heated debate over the nature of Islam on Friday evening’s episode of HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher.” “It’s the only religion that acts like the mafia — […]
Polygamy: Religion Twisted To Fit the Needs and Whims of Men
Polygamy: Religion Has Been Twisted To Fit the Needs and Whims of Men Inside Polygamy: Reader Response By Rafia Zakaria, 04 October, 2014 If the comments and letters are evidence, Pakistani men have discarded the second portion of the relevant clause on polygamy, the one that […]
Loss of smell may be predictor of death in elderly
Being unable to smell bacon frying may be far more dire than simply missing out on one of life’s pleasures. In older adults, it could be a predictor of increased […]
Perth’s Muslim children bearing brunt
“I’M just a simple kid. I’m not a terrorist”. These are the heartbreaking words of a 10-year-old Perth boy who has become an unwitting victim of the terrorist activities of […]
Celebrating Eid, Francis and Yom Kippur
Jews, Muslims, And Christians All Have Holidays On Saturday, October 4th It’s a match made in heaven! The world’s three Abrahamic faiths are bridging their great divide in a pretty […]
POST ANTI-IMMIGRATION VOTE : Swiss billionaire may fund new bilateral initiative
Wyss said during the February vote some people had been stirring up ‘imaginary fears’ about Switzerland’s future Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss says he would be prepared to finance an initiative […]
How to assess fragmenting Arab states
BY RAMI G. KHOURI, THE DAILY STAR, LEBANON SUMMARY One of the most significant common factors that has characterized the Arab world in recent years has been the birth and spread of non-state actors – organizations, parties, militias – that have assumed the role of traditional governments in many countries. […]
King Abdullah of Jordan sits down with President Putin
Russia is vital in dealing with regional challenges in the Middle East and without Russia, the region “would be a lot worse off” King Abdullah II of Jordan underlined as he sat down for a one-on-one with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s Kremlin, on Thursday. King Abdullah attended the meeting […]
Arafat: Merits of the day
Allah the Almighty preferred some months to others, some days to others and some nights to others and selected specific times in the year to be seasons of worship and […]