STORY SUMMARY Cardinal Beshara Rai said Saturday that Christians should act to stop the spread of fundamentalism and terrorism in the region. The town’s priest Father Nicolas Daoud presided over […]
SHIBLI ZAMAN ARABNEWS Published — Friday 13 September 2013 Many Jews and Christians view Islam from the outside, they find parallels to their own faiths that usually inspire a great deal of curiosity. These parallels are often doctrinal, sometimes regarding the biographies of Prophets shared between the three Abrahamic faiths […]
JEDDAH: IRFAN MOHAMMED Published — Sunday 15 September 2013 The Haj pilgrim transportation sector is in a dilemma. In a bid to provide employment to Saudi youth, the Ministry of […]
The Kingdom’s ongoing efforts to transform itself into a knowledge-based society have resulted in a tremendous rise in the number of institutions of higher studies focusing on science and research. While the number of universities and colleges in the Kingdom has shot up to 333, the private sector has also […]
The head of the opposition Free Syrian Army on Saturday rejected an agreement between the US and Russia to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons stock by mid-2014. “We cannot accept any part of this initiative,” Gen. Selim Idriss told reporters in Istanbul, saying it is a blow to the two-and-a-half-year uprising […]
Source Twitter: Harris Zafar (@Harris_Zafar) tweeted at 5:02 AM on Sun, Sep 15, 2013: We did it!! @MuslimYouthUSA created 600 food relief bags for the poor in less than 3 minutes, shattering @Walmart’s Guinness record. #AsOne What happens when @MuslimYouthUSA gathers hundreds of #Muslim youth @ annual retreat? They set […]
The Muslim Times’ has added a question mark at the end of the title. Source: CNN There he goes again — Russian President Vladimir Putin, portraying himself as the world’s champion of peace and democracy. And, of course, doing it at America’s expense. This time, Putin’s PR machine managed to […]
Source: youtube.com | wikipedia.org | muslim.org Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed Azad (Urdu: مولانا ابوالکلام محی الدین احمد آزاد, Bengali: আবুল কালাম মুহিয়ুদ্দিন আহমেদ আজাদ) (11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was an Indian scholar and a senior political leader of […]
Today is Yom Kippur and the Muslim Times team wants to join our Jewish readers in prayers on the holiest day of the year for the Jewish people. When your Daily eDigest is not in e-mail: It is also available in the website, in the main menu below the Mosque of Medina Sin, Repentance And […]
Source: calgaryherald.com It’s highly ironic that the federal government recently established the Office of Religious Freedom and yet religious rights are divided in our own country. The federal government used the headquarters of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a minority Islamic sect, to launch the Office of Religious Freedom. And yet Quebec […]
Source: modernghana.com The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Mr Paul Evans Aidoo, has observed that Ghana needs every citizen and community to promote peace and reconciliation for development to spread to every […]
Guardian: A college has abandoned its ban on Muslim face veils after a storm of local protest, a planned demonstration and the involvement of the prime minister. Birmingham Metropolitan College climbed down […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Jaweed Kaleem: jaweed.kaleem@huffingtonpost.com Twenty years ago, Evgenia Cherkasova and Elena Kornilov were doctoral students in their mid-20s, living in the same housing complex at Penn State University. As they pursued their degrees — Cherkasova in philosophy, Kornilov in physics — both started families, and to take a […]
Source: Politiken – News in English A 20 metre minaret is being raised in Nørrebro Work began this morning to raise Denmark’s first tall minaret atop the country’s first purpose […]
ET: NEW DELHI: Indian rights groups voiced dismay Saturday over death sentences handed to four men for a fatal gang rape, saying it was unlikely to reverse the country’s “rape crisis” despite a clamour for their execution. After a seven-month fast-track trial, Judge Yogesh Khanna said Friday the four men should […]
Source: CNN To some, the chunk of territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is all Israel. To others, it’s all Palestine. For most — as is true so often in this region of shifting truths and manipulated historical narratives — it’s a bit of both. More:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Original Sin (disambiguation). See also: Fate of the unlearned Michelangelo‘s painting of the sin of Adam and Eve from the Sistine Chapel ceiling According to a Christian theological doctrine, original sin, also called ancestral sin,[1] is humanity’s state of sin resulting from the fall of man,[2] stemming from Adam’s rebellion in Eden. […]
Russia Today: Assad’s government must submit a comprehensive list of its chemical weapons stocks within a week ahead of their transfer and destruction, US Secretary John Kerry said at a […]