Source: Channel News Asia YANGON: Religious leaders have called for calm in violence-hit central Myanmar and urged the government to step up security, state media said on Sunday. The outbreak of religious violence in the town of Meiktila has claimed at least 32 lives and displaced about 9,000 people, according […]
Source: Huff Post, by Kelly Bulkeley. Two kinds of answers have been offered to this riddle. The first claims that the mind is nothing but the brain. Every aspect of mental life can be entirely and completely explained as a product of the physical properties of neural functioning. The second […]
Pope Francis has travelled to Castel Gandolfo to have lunch with his predecessor Benedict XVI in an historic and potentially problematic melding of the papacies that has never before confronted […]
LONDON, March 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — A Muslim community is beginning its UK centenary celebrations with a National Peace Symposium in the capital. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will converge on […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid The case of the missing Messiah is a mystery that has intrigued countless minds through the ages. Pope Innocent III predicted Christ’s return and doomsday in 1284. William Miller made his call in October, 1844. Alexander Dowie launched his campaign at the turn of […]
Alislam.org: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is a dynamic, fast growing international revival movement within Islam. Founded in 1889, it spans over 200 countries with membership exceeding tens of millions. Its […]
Dawn: It favoured greater autonomy to the provinces but it turned in favour of a strong and assertive centre in the post-independence period. The resolution for the establishment of a separate homeland for the Muslims of British India passed in the annual session of the All India Muslim League held […]
Source: CNN Yangon, Myanmar (CNN) — Buddhist monks and others armed with swords and machetes Friday stalked the streets of a city in central Myanmar, where sectarian violence that has left about 20 people dead has begun to spread to other areas, according to local officials. Members of the Buddhist […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Easter is around the corner. Today I asked a simple question from the different Christian friends that I came across. I asked […]
Dr. Abdus Salam, Nobel Laureate in physics summarized Sarton’s history pertaining to the Muslim scientists in an article, Islam and Science – Concordance or Conflict? Salam highlighted Sarton’s evaluation of history in this article and it was published in Review of Religions in March 1995, he said: Barely a hundred years after the Holy Prophet’s […]
Source: Dawn.Com Chief Election Commissioner Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim chairs a meeting of the ECP. — INP/File Photo ISLAMABAD: A consultative meeting of the Election Commission of Pakistan for the selection of a caretaker prime minister was taking place on Saturday, DawnNews reported. The meeting was being chaired by Chief Election […]
Epigraph: “The God of Islam is the same God Who is visible in the reflection of the laws of nature and is discernible in the book of nature. Islam has […]
Barack Obama has persuaded Israel to apologise to Turkey for the loss of nine lives on board the Mavi Marmara – the lead ship in an aid flotilla trying to breach the blockade of Gaza – in […]
Source: Express Tribune By Pervez Hoodbhoy Published: March 22, 2013 A new pope was elected in the Vatican this month on March 13, 2013. Born in Argentina as Mario Bergoglio, he is now the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church. The pomp and glory, the global publicity, the weeping crowds […]
By Uri Avnery: (Hebrew: אורי אבנרי, also transliterated Uri Avneri, born 10 September 1923) is an Israeli writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. A member of the Irgun as a teenager, Avnery sat in the Knesset from 1965–74 and […]
Source: ScienceDaily. Mar. 22, 2013 — Recent research in laboratory medicine has revealed crucial differences between men and women with regard to cardiovascular illness, cancer, liver disease, osteoporosis, and in the area of pharmacology. Typically perceived as a male illness, cardiovascular disease often displays markedly different symptoms among women. While a […]
Aisha Stacy ARABNEWS: AND with Him are the keys of the unseen; no one knows them except Him. And He knows what is on the land and in the sea. […]
Mar 23, 2013 – 02:20 By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) – Opposition campaigners from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect will meet this weekend to support a democratic alternative to his rule and try to distance the community from wholesale association with the government’s attempts to crush a two-year […]
VATICAN CITY: ARAB NEWS Saturday 23 March 2013 Pope Francis yesterday called for the Roman Catholic Church to “intensify” its dialogue with Islam, echoing hopes in the Muslim world for […]
Prashant Rao ARABNEWS Saturday 23 March 2013 Abdullah Ocalan’s cease-fire call marks a key turning point for the Kurdish nation that 25 years ago was hit by the deadliest use of chemical weapons ever and had begun an armed conflict for independence. The cease-fire call, set out in a letter […]