Gomoa Potsin (C/R), Nov. 4, GNA – Mrs Ama Benyiwaa-Addo, Central Regional Minister has acknowledged with admiration the invaluable and collective efforts with which stakeholders have managed and sustained the […]
UA Muslim community thrives despite small size November 5, 2012 | Filed under: Featured Story,News | Posted by: Ashanka Kumari When Rashmee Sharif wakes up each day, she begins with a prayer. This is something that she will do four more times before the day’s end. Sharif, a second-year master […]
Muslim Brotherhood Statement on Islamic Law and National Identity Translation of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood statement regarding Sharia (Islamic Law) and its importance in society, and therefore in the country’s new national charter. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded for the purpose of reviving the spirit of Islam and awakening faith in […]
Petra | Nov 04, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Latin Patriarch of Jordan, Palestine, Cyprus, Syria and Israel Fouad Twal on Sunday commended His Majesty King Abdullah’s support for Palestinians and the holy sites in Jerusalem. During a visit to Madaba Governorate, Twal highlighted the situation in Palestine, which […]
Source: Open Faizabad saw a brazen attack on Muslims on 24 October. From what led to this carnage, it is clear that it was not spontaneous but orchestrated COMMUNALISM CALCULATED ATTACK: Chowk area of Faizabad where shops of Muslims were targeted by arsonists on 24 October (Photos: RAUL IRANI) The […]
Written by Ram Puniyani Pakistan has been facing innumerable troubles, not entirely due to its own faults. The whole politics of oil, the designs of Empire and the subservience of Mullah-Military complex to the US designs have brought in lot of misery in the region. Currently one is painfully witnessing […]
Twitter.com: One of the first to be on the scene, Humanity First USA, serves the hungry victims of Sandy. Please remember them in Prayers See Source: #HumanityFirst volunteers cooking and […]
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani Apparently, ‘secular’ is some sort of a bad word and anyone using this word in connection with Quaid-e-Azam is automatically a traitor Our Urdu press, conspiratorial, nationalist and rightwing, is full of nazriati (ideological) warriors. This article is a rebuttal of two of the most popular standard-bearers […]
File Photo Two years ago on May 28, eighty-six members of the Ahmadiyya community were massacred in their places of worship in Lahore, during the Friday congregation. Since then, an all-out war seems to have been declared against them with the oppressors becoming more vitriolic and aggressive. “Since the extremists […]
Spider Webs on Trees During 2011 Floods in Sindh
Business Insider: Over the past few weeks, there’s been a growing buzz about central banks playing a greater role in explicitly serving as funders of government. The idea that people (journalists and Wall Streeters, mostly) have been talking about is the notion that central banks could buy government debt (as […]
Philippine News: An inflow of capital has pushed up the peso that threatens asset price bubbles Reforms pushed through by President Benigno Aquino have put the Philippines back on the map for international investors but authorities are struggling to control an inflow of capital that has pushed up the currency […]
Humanist: by Beena Sarwar. Those calling for a global blasphemy law should heed the lessons from Pakistan In Pakistan a democratically elected but weak government struggles to hold on to power against tremendous odds. If, despite the challenges, it completes its tenure and makes it to the next election it […]
In this age of information and its explosion, you will be taken for a ride, if you do not keep abreast with the latest, the best and most accurate information. You will be taken for a ride not only by the ordinary con artists but also by journalists, politicians and even the so called religious scholars. Try the […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/world/asia/gays-in-pakistan-move-cautiously-to-gain-acceptance.html?ref=todayspaper LAHORE, Pakistan — The group meets irregularly in a simple building among a row of shops here that close in the evening. Drapes cover the windows. Sometimes members watch movies or read poetry. Occasionally, they give a party, dance and drink and let off steam. Related Times Topic: Homosexuality […]
Dr. Dirks is a Sunni Muslim, his views about crucifixion are in keeping with his identity, but, rest of his scholarship, can be very helpful to Ahmadi Muslims studying Christianity. In the book, The Cross and The Crescent, Dr. Dirks, a former ordained minister (deacon) in the United Methodist Church, […]
The Israel Today: Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat last week said it was time for Israel to finally implement true religious freedom and allow Jews to pray atop the Temple Mount. […]
By Abdallah Bawazir The rising tide of radical Islamism has sparked growing unrest on the idyllic islands of Zanzibar. Daniel Howden reports from Stone Town. Workmen are raising the walls around the Assemblies of God Church on the outskirts of Zanzibar’s Stone Town. Sweating in the heat and humidity, they […]
Kerala, India: ‘Divya Smrithi’ – A Public Meeting on World Religious Figures was conducted as part of Kozhikode Zonal Conference 2012 in Kerala, India on Saturday the 3rd of November. By the grace of God, the event was a grand success. It highlighted the noble characters of world religious leaders: Prophet […]
(Here is a great Travel writing piece by Anton Denise as he vacationed in Fiji) Fiji: Fish swim past the see side by: Anthony Dennis From: escape The infinity edge swimming pool at Likuliku. Picture: Anthony Dennis I’VE just had a close shave with a school of Bleeker’s parrotfish. Or was it Schlegel’s parrotfish? […]