Source: NY Times. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington National Cathedral, where the nation gathers to mourn tragedies and celebrate new presidents, will soon begin performing same-sex marriages. Cathedral officials tell The Associated Press the church will be among the first Episcopal congregations to implement a new […]
The Telegraph: All of a sudden, we Brits are taking an interest in universities that are neither Russell Group nor red-brick, but positively Continental. It’s something that would have been […]
Editor’s note: This is part of a series on the alleged spread of Islamic terror cells in America’s “backyard.” See part one here. LIMA, Peru — Is Venezuela providing operational support to Islamic terrorists? That deadly serious question is increasingly troubling foreign policy and security experts as the South American country […]
Source: COUNCIL BY LAWRENCE MACHADO THE Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Australia (AMAA) are inviting residents to celebrate Australia Day at their centenary hall at Marsden Park on Sunday, January 27. The […]
Express Tribune: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday denied Indian allegations that its troops killed two Indian soldiers in a second cross-border ceasefire violation in days and called on UN observers to investigate. India summoned Pakistan’s high commissioner to New Delhi to protest against Tuesday’s killings, in which India’s chief military spokesman said […]
ARAB NEWS Wednesday 9 January 2013 GENEVA: The World Food Program said on Tuesday it is unable to help an estimated 1 million Syrians who are going hungry, blaming a lack of security in the war-stricken country. This month, the agency aims to help 1.5 million of the 2.5 million […]
MOSCOW: The second round of Russia-US consultations on Syria involving international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will be held in Geneva on Friday, Moscow’s top negotiator in the talks said Wednesday. “The trilateral meeting between (Russian Deputy Foreign Minister) Mikhail Bogdanov, (US Undersecretary of State) William Burns, and (UN-Arab League envoy) […]
AMMAN — Violent riots erupted at the Zaatari Refugee Camp on Tuesday as heavy rain submerged hundreds of tents. According to a security source, Syrian refugees clashed with security forces […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Bangladesh will retain Islam as the state religion in amendments the government is proposing to its constitution, a government minister said yesterday, […]
More Ads With Inflammatory Messages About Islam Appear In NYC Subway January 8, 2013 9:28 PM Share on email3 View Comments (credit: CBS 2) Filed Under Local, News, NY News,Radio.com – News,Syndicated Local Related Tags 911, ads, American Freedom Defense Initiative, Islam,Pamela Geller, Twin Towers,World Trade Center NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Another set of inflammatory ads has appeared […]
Understanding Islam is easy now G. V. R. SUBBA RAO SHARE · COMMENT · PRINT · T+ PHOTO: V. RAJUBook-lovers browsing the pages of Quran at a stall put up at the ongoing Vijayawada Book Festival in Vijayawada on Tuesday. Andhra PradeshVijayawada arts, culture and entertainmentbooks and literature religion and beliefislam Publishers bring Quran and other […]
Huff Post: John Stauffer. For Douglass, there was an intimate link between individual conversion and social reform. The path of reform flowed outward from self to society. Before eradicating social evil, you first had to purify the self. Consequently Douglass and other abolitionists tried to live righteously, abstaining from tobacco, […]
Science Daily: The conventional notion of male breadwinner and female homemaker still guides at least some behaviors, even for couples in which the woman is the primary financial provider or at least one partner wishes to have a nonconventional arrangement. Working-class couples who buck the tradition of marriage are far […]
RT: A United States congressman has introduced a bill that would repeal the 22nd Amendment, which currently limits the president to serving only two terms as commander-in-chief. Should the bill become a law, it could allow President Barack Obama to run for reelection yet again in 2016. The bill, H.J. […]
(On September 17, 1994, Alabama’s Heather Whitestone was selected as Miss America 1995.) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: “I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we […]
Oxford, England, Jan 8, 2013 / 02:02 am (CNA).- A group of 11 Anglican nuns who were received into the communion of the Catholic Church Jan. 1 were lauded for […]
Resistance is growing within the ranks of the Centre Party over a radical new party programme which includes proposals on free immigration, polygamy and an end to compulsory schooling. Several regional party chapters in southern Sweden are now organizing against the proposed 2013 party programme, reports the newspaper Dagens Nyheter. […]
Source: New Religion via Nasim Malik of Sweden. Ummad Farooq speaks out against sectarian violence in Pakistan, weeks after his brother was murdered for being an Ahmadi Saad Farooq (left) with younger brother Ummad Farooq (right) By S. Taalay Ahmed I’m sitting across the table from Ummad Farooq in a small […]
Source: The Spiegel By Christoph Scheuermann REUTERS Cameron speaks on the BBC’s ‘Andrew Marr Show’ on Sunday. Britain’s right-wing conservative movement is making life difficult for Prime Minister David Cameron. The UK Independence Party wants to lead the country out of the EU, and its approval ratings are higher than […]
Source: Asiatimes: Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel’s likely nomination as US defense secretary creates a dilemma for the Israel lobby. Opposition would risk ties with President Barack Obama and failure threaten its “invincible” aura in Washington’s corridors of power. Acquiesce, and it would have to deal with a fiercely independent […]