Source: examiner.com Festivities in a new temple dedicated to the Indian monkey god Hanuman in Frisco, Texas, earlier this month remind us that a minority of religions exists within the shores of the United States that is relatively silent. The faith that is the subject here, of course, is Hinduism, which in […]
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has surely grasped a strong handle which knows no breaking. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 2:257) One of the […]
System is expected to be the world’s largest with 247 million covered by 2019, The Straits Times : The scheme will assure lower-income Indonesians such as Mr Paimin of free […]
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]
JEDDAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED ARABNEWS Published — Wednesday 15 January 2014 The plight of a Bangladeshi farm laborer who is suffering from cancer and who has not been paid in two years finally came to an end following intervention by the Qassim governorate. Rubi Hussain, who has been working for his […]
ABC News: by Lucy Carter — A team of researchers from the University of New South Wales has uncovered a link between junk food and memory loss. The team placed rats on a diet high in sugar and fat and compared their performance with rodents on a healthy diet. Lead […]
Source: CNN Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Nigerian authorities arrested 10 people believed to be gay men under a bill signed this week that bans same-sex marriages, rights groups said. Police detained men in various states and have dozens of pending arrests based on perceived sexual orientation, according to Amnesty International. “Reports […]
Source: CNN JANUARY 15 – RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN: Girls wait in line to receive free food during a rally marking the birthday of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad on January 14, 2014. Thousands of Pakistanis celebrated by participating in religious processions, ceremonies and distributing free meals among the poor. More:
Source:CNN.COM (HLNtv.com) — “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson is ruffling feathers again, this time for comments he made years ago about how girls should marry when they’re still teenagers. “They got to where they’re getting hard to find, mainly because these boys are waiting ’til they get to be about 20 […]
By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Had he lived to see January 15th, 2014 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 85 years-old. He would have witnessed the death of […]
Source: CNN I am sure that many marriage equality opponents reading this are shouting “I told you so!” as their predictions that plural marriage would follow same-sex marriage come nightmarishly true. Many grew up as I did, in a time and place where the single-wage-earner nuclear family was the unquestioned […]
Source: TOI: SYDNEY: Australians sweltering through an extreme heatwave were warned that the worst was yet to come Thursday, with hundreds of fires raging in several states and temperatures nearing record highs. Most of southeast Australia has been in the grips of a scorching heatwave that triggered a devastating wildfire on the west […]
WEF: Economic, societal and environmental risks dominate list of global risks LONDON: The growing gulf between the rich and the poor represents the biggest global risk this year, the World Economic Forum has declared ahead of this month’s Davos summit. The institution issued the gloomy warning in its annual Global […]
NEW DELHI: Less than 13 months after Nirbhaya’s brutal gang-rape had city authorities promising a safer Delhi for women, precious little seems to have changed. Horror and shame revisited the capital on Tuesday, when a 51-year-old Danish tourist was repeatedly raped by eight-nine men in a garden just a stone’s throw away […]
Source: Asia Times: Russia faces serious threats to its stability from Islamic insurgencies. Recent suicide blasts in Volgograd were a painful reminder of this. Historically, Russia has tried to suppress Islamic movements (also religious activities in general) not only in Russia but also in Central Asian states (especially in the […]
By Ari Yashar First Publish: 1/15/2014, 11:23 AM Aryeh King, Jerusalem Councilman of the United Jerusalem faction, has begun a new campaign distributing thousands of fliers to Arab residents of Jerusalem, urging them to leave Israel. “You have many large countries that you can live in. Understand that we returned […]
ET: LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday he had not so far seen any evidence that the English government of Margaret Thatcher had helped India plan a deadly […]
Source: Huffington Post By FRANK JORDANS 01/15/14 BERLIN (AP) — Chimpanzees who share are chimpanzees who care, it seems. A study published Wednesday appears to confirm that friendships are forged […]
Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in Muzaffar Ahmad of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is perhaps the first civilian Pakistani who caught the suicide bomber alive without any use of weapon and handed over to the police. […]
Dated: 2014 Source: ahmadiyyatimes.blogspot.in The killings are the direct result of a reckless disregard by Pakistani authorities of the hate-materials routinely published against Ahmadi Muslim which openly provoke and incite public […]