Posted by Interfaith America News Subscription information can be found below this message. Coming Events 2013 Homeles Census—Upcoming Interreligious Events Silicon Valley Interreligious Council SiVIC NEWS Community Service Opportunity: Volunteers Needed for 2013 Homeless Census and Survey Every two years, jurisdictions are required by the Federal Department of Housing and […]
Information about suicides in the IDF was first published by an anonymous Israeli blogger who was subsequently investigated by Israel Police and the Military Police. By Gili Cohen | Dec.27, 2012 | HAARETZ ISRAEL In the last 10 years, 237 soldiers killed themselves, according to official statistics released by the […]
By Jamal Khashoggi Sunday, 13 January 2013 Saudi Arabia feels safe, or at least it should, when its wings are all right. “Saudi security” is based on an old strategy that withstood the change of times, leaders and the world around it; a strategy that always needs a strong Pakistan […]
By Al Arabiya The first Muslim woman to win an Olympic gold medal could be the first female to break men’s long-standing in heading the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for 2013, a newspaper reported Sunday. Nawal al-Moutawakel, who is IOC’s vice-president, became the first Moroccan, African, Arab, Muslim woman to […]
Authors: Faith Karimi and Harmeet Shah Singh Source: CNN In an incident eerily similar to a sexual assault that sent shock waves worldwide, Indian police say a woman was gang-raped over […]
Tarek Fatah The Huffington Post An unprecedented protest is unfolding in the Balochistan city of Quetta in Pakistan. Thousands of people have staged a sit-in, and are using coffins to block a road to protest the slaughter of Shia Muslims by Sunni Muslim terrorists allied with the Taliban. On Thursday […]
Source: The Economist. WHO and what is Tahir ul Qadri? And, more importantly, who is behind him? Those are the questions now racing through political Pakistan, with no firm answers. The religious cleric, previously a minor figure politically, has been living in Canada since 2006, where he acquired Canadian citizenship. Since he arrived […]
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Source: Wikipedia Qutub Minar pronunciation (help·info) (English: The Qutub Tower; Urdu: قطب مینار) also Qutub Minar, is the tallest minaret in India [1] and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[2] Located […]
Anwar Sadat (left), Carter, and Begin at Camp David, Maryland, 1978 James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President […]
Source: ET The only thing we know about Tahirul Qadri’s January 14 Long March in Islamabad is that it will be attended by a lot of people. We still don’t know who has gathered those people and if they are being paid to attend. We don’t know who is behind […]
By TCN Staff Reporter Islam is the only solution to the challenges of mankind Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India: Three day Spring of Islam conference by Jamate-e-Islami Hind at Hyderabad was […]
Use Pen to counter Islamophobia: Yvonne Ridley Source: IANS Hyderabad, Jan 13: Award-winning British-born journalist Yvonne Ridley has called upon Muslims to join together and publish the truth to counter […]
Source: MSN Pakistan has one of the highest cases of liver diseases, and Delhi’s Apollo Hospital has played host to over 400 Pakistani patients in the last eight years New Delhi: When Pakistani raiders were beheading Indian soldiers, a group of Indian doctors were helping their Pakistani counterparts to do […]
By Amy Banton abanton@aikenstandard.com Carl Medearis is a man of two worlds. Medearis, an international expert in the field of Arab-American and Muslim-Christian relations, spoke at Cedar Creek Church Saturday evening. He has dedicated his life to promoting peace between two different worlds and has worked with former state Gov. […]
Source: Huff Post. By Dan Williams ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN BORDER, Jan 11 (Reuters) – Breaking cover from a lookout point disguised as a dune, four soldiers storm into the open, ploughing through the sand with rifles aloft. Their battle cries are like seagull calls, and from under their helmets, ponytails flap. Team […]
Story Summary If the U.S. government can go around assassinating anyone it suspects is a criminal, can any other party do the same to Americans? A few years ago the U.S. government also obtained a court ruling allowing it to seize and kidnap any person in any country (the case […]
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JEDDAH: JASSIM ABUZAID ARABBEWS Sunday 13 January 2013 Enver Hoxhaj, Kosovo foreign minister, paid a special visit to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) headquarters in Jeddah yesterday, meeting with […]
RIYADH – Saudi diplomatic missions abroad issued a total of 10.77 million visas last year. “This is a record figure compared to previous years, and the increase was 13.6 percent over 2011 and 79.7 percent over 2005,” said Assistant Foreign Minister Prince Khaled Bin Saud Bin Khaled. Speaking to the […]