Houston enhances its link with Arab culture
By MARIA PETRINGA, ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON JANUARY 4, 2012, IN THE LIFE & STYLE SECTION OF ARABNEWS.COM The city of Houston, Texas, is widely known for its achievements in energy, […]
Houston enhances its link with Arab culture
By MARIA PETRINGA, LIFE.STYLE@ARABNEWS.COM The city of Houston, Texas, is widely known for its achievements in energy, space and medical technology. During the past few decades, thanks to its excellent […]
Jesus’ miracle: Surviving the Cross
By Zia H Shah Jews were not expecting a suffering Messiah or one who will die on a cross, as Deuteronomy said, “And if a man have committed a sin […]
Makkah governor calls for study to curb Haj squatters
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal has urged the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Institute for Haj & Umrah to conduct a detailed study on how […]
February 2011 Alislam-eGazette: Metaphysics, Religion and Science
So said Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community “The God of Islam is the same God Who is visible in the reflection of the laws of nature and is discernible in the book of nature. Islam has not presented a new God but has presented the […]
Why Banks Shun 30 Million Americans?: The Unbanked and the Debanked
CNBC: They are 30 million consumers, representing a quarter of U.S. households, who earn a collective $1.3 trillion a year. But banks don’t want to serve them, because they lose money. And the nonfinancial institutions who do serve them may not be offering them much value in the long term. […]
Orthodox world celebrates Christmas: Which one is the real Christmas?
RT: More than 30,000 churches and cathedrals across Russia have held religious services as Russia celebrates Orthodox Christmas. In Moscow alone, around 90,000 people have attended liturgies. The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill, has delivered the Christmas Liturgy in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, where about […]
Aidan Dwyer’s Bright Idea Is Something New Under the Sun
13-year-old Aidan Dwyer whose parents had been hoping to install solar panels on their Long Island house, but their yard was too small and their roof wasn’t suitable. There was, however, enough room for a tree. Perhaps, Aidan postulated, trees arranged their branches to improve the collection of sunlight. If […]
November 2011 Alislam-eGazette: Universal Brotherhood in Islam and Hajj
Friday Sermon about human compassion and International brotherhood This sermon was delivered on September 12, 2003 by Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih V. The subject of this sermon is humanitarian values in Islam. We will review a few excerpts and quotes from this sermon: After the initial recitation Huzur […]
Book of the Week: Manji – Another Pawn Advanced
A so-called ‘insider’ exposed by Ansar Raza All religions, Islam being no exception, must confront the severe criticism of its teachings. In the past 14 centuries many Orientalists, based on […]
Religious Beliefs Battle Hypertension, Norwegian Study of Church Attendance Suggests
ScienceDaily (Dec. 23, 2011) — Does a belief in God confer any health benefits? With the help of a large Norwegian longitudinal health study called HUNT, researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) were able to find a clear relationship between time spent in church and lower blood […]
The Only Seven Countries In The World Where Facebook Isn’t The Most Popular Social Network
Facebook is on its way to global domination, but there are still seven major markets where it is not the leading social network, according to a new report from comScore. We’ve included charts showing how Facebook compares to its rivals in these markets. Before you click through to take a look, […]
These Landscape Sculptures Were Carved From Old Books
Contemporary artist Guy Laramee has a talent for transforming the pages of thick books into beautiful natural landscapes and historical scenes. The skilled excavator, who is also an accomplished music composer, stage writer and director, and painter has created two series of carved books, titled The Great Wall and Biblios, that provide incredible […]
Mystery of disappearing 3.5 ton underwater statue off Italian coast
Italian police are trying to solve the mysterious disappearance of a 3.5 ton statue of a saint which has stood on the seabed off the coast of Calabria since 2007. […]
Dutch floods threatening dyke forces mass evacuation
Dutch soldiers and police evacuated 800 residents from a northern area of the Netherlands where an inland dyke has started leaking and is at risk of breaking after heavy rains. […]
God’s more than a watchmaker
By Christopher Howse How a misapprehension of the New Atheists has been exploded. I’ve just read a book only because it was reviewed enthusiastically by Sir Anthony Kenny, the philosopher and former Master of Balliol. What might have stopped me otherwise was the facetious abuse that often seeps out of […]
Persecution of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community – New website launched
source: http://www.persecutionofahmadis.org/ Introduction Introduction to Section PERSECUTION ARCHIVES and Index This section contains a Chronology of important events that involved persecution, a sub-section of facts and figures in a tabulated form, a file of official documents relevant to persecution, a repository of other important documents and another one of […]
Discussion on blasphemy stifled in Punjab Assembly
Source: Express Tribune: Women chant slogans in favour of late Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer’s assassin, Mumtaz Qadri during a Sunni Tehrik rally in Islamabad on January 4. PHOTO: ZAFAR ASLAM/EXPRESS LAHORE: Days after religious groups protested in Lahore against the death sentence awarded to former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer’s murder Mumtaz […]
After ugly attacks on Jerusalem mosque, a ‘Good Samaritan’ emerges
Amidst a series of audacious attacks carried out apparently by young Israeli settlers this week, one of the extremists’ targets stood out. It was a site I’d never heard of right in the centre of the city: The Nebi Akasha mosque, built more than 800 years ago. They spray-painted on the outside stone walls […]
Finding God everywhere in Lebanon
By Michael Young The Daily Star, Lebanon Readers will forgive me if I use a personal milestone as the premise for what follows. The year 2012 marks 20 years since […]