Muslims host Hebrew Conference in South Asia
Muslims host first ever Hebrew Conference held in South Asia The Jews Press: The first-ever Hebrew language and culture conference in South Asia was hosted at the Jawaharlal Nehru University […]
Switzerland: More foreigners and fewer naturalisations
The number of non-Swiss living in Switzerland rose slightly in 2012 to 1.825 million, a three per cent increase over 2011, the Federal Migration Office reported on Friday. Foreigners continue to make up roughly 20 per cent of the population. The increase was primarily attributed to migration by citizens of […]
North Korea Is Believed to Have Conducted Third Nuclear Test
Source: Newyork Times: American and South Korean officials reported seismic activity in North Korea on Tuesday that appeared to be evidence of the country’s third and long-threatened nuclear test and a new challenge for the Obama administration in its effort to keep the country from becoming a full-fledged nuclear power. […]
European ministers to hold summit over horse meat scandal
Ministers from across Europe are to meet in Brussels tomorrow to discuss tightening regulations on processed meat in the wake of the growing scandal over horse meat found in beef […]
Benedict once said that he had “no talent for…administration or organisation”.
Source: The Economist: In fact Benedict XVI’s papacy is likely to be remembered as overly passive. Though he acknowledged that the church needed to go on “a long penitential journey” to atone for sins committed by its clergy, the church he presided over was slow to react to sexual-abuse scandals […]
British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemns North Korea nuclear test
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, has “strongly condemned” a nuclear test carried out by North Korea today, calling it a “violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions. Mr Hague’s comments […]
Iraq at the brink: A decade after the invasion
by Ramzy Baroud ARABNEWS Tuesday 12 February 2013 Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign “Operation Desert Fox” devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998, I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. I was disappointed with the fact that our busy schedule […]
The Vatican’s woes God’s bankers A beleaguered papacy is embroiled in intrigue. Some scent a succession struggle
Source: The Economist: God’s bankers FEW things annoy Vatican officials more than lurid novels that depict the papacy as the secretive heart of a global conspiracy. Pope Benedict XVI’s most senior official, his secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, this month accused journalists of trying to imitate the American […]
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to build world’s largest desalination plant
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Tuesday 12 February 2013 The Saline Water Conversion Corporation yesterday announced its plan to establish the world’s largest desalination plant in Rabigh, northwest of Jeddah, […]
HISTORIC ANNUAL MUSLIM CONVENTION CONCLUDES WITH ADDRESS BY WORLD LEADER
Source: Ahmadiyya Press Desk London. The three-day, 89th Annual Convention (Jalsa Salana) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Bangladesh concluded yesterday in Dhaka with a powerful and faith-inspiring address by the Fifth Khalifa, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, His Holiness, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad. The Khalifa addressed […]
Rising inequality in America is causing the economy to sputter
By Naomi Wolf The Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary The hit of this year’s Sundance Film Festival was a low-key affair called “Inequality for All,” in which Robert Reich, a labor secretary in the Clinton administration, explains how rising income inequality and the demise of the middle class is causing […]
President Ernest Bai Koroma commends the Ahmadiyya Mission in Sierra Leone for exemplifying Islamic values for education, peace and tolerance since its establishment
Source: SLBC President Ernest Bai Koroma has commended the Ahmadiyya Mission in Sierra Leone for exemplifying Islamic values for education, peace and tolerance since its establishment. President Koroma was speaking at the fifty second Jalsa Salana Annual conference of the Ahmadiyya Mission in Sierra Leone. Ref:
SAUDI MINISTER, ISLAM FORBIDS SORCERY: ARAB NEWS
(MENAFN – Arab News) Justice Minister Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Isa met Tuesday with a delegation from the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to discuss the Saudi judiciary system among other topics.The delegation talked about the sorcery-related issues in detail, seeking answers on the concept of witchcraft and […]
Catholics shocked as pope resigns, but little emotion
By Alexandra Hudson, Cristiano Corvino Story Summary Catholics reacted with shock on Monday to the sudden abdication of Pope Benedict, although the mood among many was one of respect rather […]
Imams In Short Supply in U.S. As Islam Grows
npr: John Burnett. Islam in America is growing exponentially. From 2000 to 2010, the number of mosques in the United States jumped 74 percent. Today, there are more than 2,100 American mosques but they have a challenge: There aren’t enough imams, or spiritual leaders, to go around. The 200 mostly Pakistani-American […]
With Pope Benedict’s Resignation, It’s Time to Move From Religion to Spirituality
Huff Post: Matthew Fox. The lack of conscience in the yes-men Benedict and Pope John Paul II appointed to positions of decision-making means that Catholics should not be holding their breath expecting the Holy Spirit to elect a decent leader. The church as we know it is finished and that is a […]
Papal Resignation, Papal Infallibility and Mother Mary
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD The Holy Quran presents mother Mary as a paragon of virtue and chastity and a chapter of the Quran is named after […]
WHY SIR SYED LOSES AND ALLAMA IQBAL WINS: EXPRESS TRIBUNE
Why Sir Syed loses and Allama Iqbal wins in Pakistan Iqbal said what people wanted to hear — and his genius lay in crafting it with beautifully chosen words. By Pervez Hoodbhoy Published: February 9, 2013 The writer retired as professor of physics from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad Syed Ahmad Khan […]
Pope Benedict’s resignation brings end to paradoxical papacy
Pope Benedict XVI Source: Guardian UK John Hooper in Rome The Guardian, Monday 11 February 2013 07.07 EST Pope Benedict XVI was intellectually remorseless but personally timid – lacking in […]