Source: CNN The faithful fill St. Peter’s Square as Pope Benedict XVI attends his last public audience on Wednesday, February 27, in Vatican City. Benedict’s decision to resign earlier this month caught a lot of Vatican watchers, apparently even some in his inner circle, off-guard. (CNN) — The love of […]
Source: Jacksonville.com, by Wayne Ezell. “The future of the Islamic world is one of the two defining forces for us in the next quarter century,” she said. “The other is globalization.” Both pose major policy challenges for the United States, she adds. After 40 years as a foreign correspondent, noted […]
Source:Countercurrents.org, by Sazzad Hussain. The discovery of oil in 1934 made Saudi Arabia to gain prominence among the western colonial powers and with the British-US oil companies, corporate world and arms producers, it emerged as a powerful country. After taking up of the custody of the holy mosques of Mecca […]
City University pulls Islam prayer space over sermons content By Jennifer Lipman, February 28, 2013 Follow Jennifer on Twitter A London university that was found to have serious problems with campus radicalisation has won praise from extremism monitor Quilliam after withholding campus space for Muslim prayers unless staff are permitted to […]
Havana Real Estate “Boom” Lures Investors & Exiles New America Media, News Analysis, Louis Nevaer Just over a year after the Cuban government permitted the first sale of real estate between private parties, a housing boom is emerging in Havana. Sequestration Nearing, Calif. Schools Get Breathing Room […]
Courtesy: The Daily Star GALLOWS for Sayedee War crimes tribunal finds him guilty of 8 out of 20 charges, hands death for 2 offences Julfikar Ali Manik and Mahbubur Rahman Khan Ending all speculations, the first war crimes tribunal yesterday sentenced Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee to death in its […]
The orangutans are the two exclusively Asian species of extant great apes. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are currently found in only the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra. Classified in the genus Pongo, orangutans were considered to be one species. However, since 1996, they have […]
Dalil Boubakeur is one of France’s most prominent Muslims. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, he discusses what retiring Pope Benedict XVI did wrong in bridging the Muslim-Catholic divide and how […]
Source: BBC Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation on Thursday – the first by a Pope for more than 600 years – is forcing the Vatican to consider some unusual questions. Here […]
By: Zarar Hayee, Duluth News Tribune Source: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/259778/ Since 1976 the United States has celebrated February as Black History Month. We celebrate Black History Month to commemorate the efforts and perseverance of African- Americans in American society. In school we learned how blacks were forced to give up their seats and […]
Source: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/259779/group/homepage/ By: Waqas Khalid, for the News Tribune Actor Denzel Washington uttered some pretty famous words in “Remember the Titans,” one of the best sports movies of our era. “I don’t care whether you’re black, white, green, or purple, I want my offensive players on this bus,” he said, […]
By ALEX ALVAREZ (@soalexgoes) While the U.S. has deemed it illegal to place bets on who will become the next pope — the selection process is considered an election — […]
Eric J. Lyman, Special for USA TODAY At 8 p.m. sharp local time (2 p.m. ET), Benedict will become the first pontiff in 600 years to retire. VATICAN CITY — […]
Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=45092 A Dhaka tribunal on Thursday handed death penalty to top Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. The 73-year-old Jamaat nayeb-e-ameer […]
Source: http://omidsafi.religionnews.com/2013/02/28/how-to-pray-presence-in-the-heart/ By Omid Safi A man came to see the Prophet Muhammad (S). Before talking with the Prophet, he quickly performed his prayers. When he walked up to the Prophet, the Prophet sent him back to do his prayers over again, and said: ”You did not do your […]
PORT-LOUIS, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — Scientists have discovered the existence of a micro-continent lying under the Mauritius and Reunion islands in the Indian Ocean, the Nature Geoscience magazine published on its website. The researchers from Oslo, Liverpool and Witwatersrand universities said that the micro-continent which has been given the name, […]
By Catherine Chomiak, Producer, NBC News ROME – In a policy shift, the United States on Thursday announced plans to channel non-lethal assistance directly to Syrian rebels in the battlefield […]
Muhammad in the Bible: by David Benjamin Kildani (former Roman Catholic Bishop of a Uniate Chaldean diocese) “There has never lived upon this earth a Prince – Prophet like Muhammad, who belonged to […]
Source: Inquirer News. KUALA LUMPUR—The Philippines and a Muslim separatist group hope to finalize a peace agreement ending a decades-old insurgency by April, a government negotiator said Thursday. Manila and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are working to put the finishing touches to plans for disarmament and wealth- and […]