Source: TOI NEW DELHI: India is downgrading its diplomatic ties with Italy and has asked its ambassador-designate to that country Basant Kumar Gupta, who was scheduled to leave for Rome on Friday, not to proceed to take up his posting. The government which is reviewing the entire gamut of bilateral […]
Source: The Local: The authorities arrested four members of a radical Salafist group before they could murder Markus Beisicht, the head of the anti-Muslim far-right Pro NRW party. The police apprehended two of the suspects in Leverkusen near Cologne, where they were apparently observing Beisicht. Two others were arrested in […]
Source: Asia Times: By Francesco Sisci BEIJING – The names of popes are policy statements on the governance of the Roman Catholic Church, and it is no coincidence that the new pontiff has chosen to call himself Francis, the name of saint of Assisi in the 12th century, but also […]
Asian Human Rights Comission: When a small lady weighing hardly 60 kilograms working for the betterment of poor slum-dwellers, and amongst the under-privileged in poorer residential areas, is viewed as a dire threat to the Taliban and the local administration, the sanity of these institutions, and those that man them, […]
Source: CNN According to veteran Vatican journalist Marco Politi, the initial traction in the papal vote was not for then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. “From the first leaks we understand that there was a strong candidate,” Politi told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday. “The Italian Archbishop of Milan, Scola, who entered […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Does it matter that the new pope comes from Argentina? It matters greatly, because Argentina shaped the life and the views of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis. Through Francis, Argentina will help shape the church. More than any country in Latin American, Argentina is […]
This is a collection of some articles mainly from the author below who is considered to be an authority on Goethe. See the link below for details: More: Katharina Mommsen […]
His Holiness, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad Collected by Adam Walker, UK Source: The Belfast Telegraph World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Successor of the Promised Messiah, His […]
The Toronto Star One civil servant calls situation “absolutely embarrassing”; 168-page report detailing the communication barriers Canadian government scientists face now in front of Information Commissioner Federal Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault is being asked to investigate the “muzzling” of Canadian government scientists in a request backed by a 128-page report […]
West Africa SOURCE: BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/7chapter6.shtml TRADE Islam first came to West Africa as a slow and peaceful process, spread by Muslim traders and scholars. The early journeys across the Sahara were done in stages. Goods passed through chains of Muslim traders, purchased, finally, by local non-Muslims at the southern most […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS STAFF Friday 15 March 2013 The holy city of Madinah will soon have a state-of-the-art Qur’an museum with impressive facilities, said Prince Sultan […]
AISHA STACEY ARABNEWS Friday 15 March 2013 Before talking about how a believer behaves when ill or injured it is important to understand just what Islam teaches us about the […]
NEW YORK: ARAB NEWS Friday 15 March 2013 The US war in Iraq has cost $ 1.7 trillion with an additional $ 490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $ 6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Friday 15 March 2013 Inspired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s interfaith dialogue initiative, the Kochi-based International Interfaith Dialogue India (IIDI) recently […]
The Jordan Times Petra | Mar 14, 2013 | 21:31 Updated: Mar 14, 2013 | 21:31 AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday congratulated Pope Francis I on his […]
Our Favorite Christian Prayer:http://t.co/4u1oCf5I8i pic.twitter.com/f8UnMW93KX — The Muslim Times (@The_MuslimTimes) January 3, 2015 Source: Huffington Post By Doctor David Liepert, who is a convert to Islam and is an […]
Storrs, Connecticut, USA March 13, 2013 “I love Muhammad” day was celebrated in University of Connecticut located in Storrs in the Student union hall. After recitation by Mr Ahmad Kusi, two young children recited an Arabic qaseeda in honor of Prophet Muhammad. Members of the audience saw a segment of […]
London: The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jamaat) issued a Press Release today. It would like to offer its congratulations to the Roman Catholic Church and its members across the world upon […]
The World Gold Council had some words of advice for central banks around the world: It may be time to diversify away from the U.S. dollar. While the dollar remains the world’s main reserve currency, the WGC said in a research report that its “optimal” strategy would involve, what else, […]
The civil war is hotting up on Syria’s southern front Mar 16th 2013 | RAMTHA |From the print edition THE ECONOMIST TWO long years ago, on March 18th, Syrians rose up in Deraa, a dusty town on the agricultural plain of Hauran that spreads south into Jordan. The revolt marked […]