The Church will publish legal advice on Monday that says that homosexual clergy in civil partnerships can become bishops – as long as they remain celibate. The legal guidance makes clear that it would be wrong for a cleric’s sexual orientation to be taken into account when considering their suitability […]
For some people struggling to lose weight, researchers say it may help to engage in a little “magical thinking” as a way to cope with the stress of dieting and being overweight. Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/17/does-magical-thinking-help-people-lose-weight/#ixzz1PkZiuCRU
Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta, one of Malta’s peaceful Muslim communities, has launched a national doorstep and publicity campaign to reassert true Islamic principles of peace and loyalty. The campaign was longed with the message of: Lealà – Ħelsien – Rispett – Ugwaljanza – Paċi. Members of Ahmadiyya Community are presenting people […]
AS it turned 100 last week, I.B.M. was looking remarkably spry. Consumer technologies get all the attention these days, but the company has quietly thrived by selling to corporations and governments. Profits are strong, its portfolio of products and services looks robust, and its shares are near a record high. […]
Up to last Friday: Almost 9,700 Syrian people crossed into Turkey in last couple of weeks to find shelter in Turkey. Top officials of Turkish and Syrian relief organizations met Friday in Istanbul after the mass influx of Syrians who have fled to neighboring Turkey to escape violence in their […]
Dutch society and its values must take precedence and integration policy should go, home affairs minister Piet Hein Donner told parliament on Thursday evening during the presentation of his integration bill. Donner spoke of a ‘change of direction’ in which the government ‘will distance itself from the relativism contained in […]
Bronisław Komorowski (R) and Micheline Calmy-Rey (L) The strength of the Swiss franc may cause problems not only for the Polish borrowers but also for the Swiss economy and its export, President of Switzerland Micheline Calmy-Rey said yesterday in Warsaw. Calmy-Rey came on a one-day visit […]
By RFI France wants to extend European sanctions against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to “economic entities”, as security forces fire on Friday demonstrators killing six, according to opposition sources. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/europe/20110617-france-wants-tougher-syria-sanctions-friday-protests-continue
Iraq’s parliament speaker tells Al Jazeera unaccounted reconstruction money is three times the reported $6.6bn. Osama al-Nujaifi, the Iraqi parliament speaker, has told Al Jazeera that the amount of Iraqi money unaccounted for by the US is $18.7bn – three times more than the reported $6.6bn. Just before departing for […]
The minority has been under constant attack even though it keeps a low profile. DESIGN: SAMAD SIDDIQUI KARACHI: On a Friday afternoon, there is pin-drop silence around the Ahmadi place of worship in Karachi’s Drigh Road area. Worshippers quietly enter through a side door, watched over by a number of […]
Egypt’s women were on the front line of protests in Tahrir Square that led to the ousting of former President Hosni Mubarak, but they are becoming increasingly concerned that they are being sidelined as a new Egypt takes shape. There are fewer women in the cabinet than under Mr Mubarak. […]
Children who see their parents drunk are twice as likely to regularly get drunk themselves, a survey of young teenagers has suggested. Poor parental supervision also raises the likelihood of teenage drinking, said the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The Ipsos MORI survey found the behaviour of friends is also a powerful […]
MONTREAL — A former Lac St. Louis soccer referee is blowing the whistle on rules she said prevent her from practising her religion. Sarah Benkirane, 15, was told after two years of refereeing for the soccer association that she was out of a job, after a complaint surfaced over her […]
Socialism … is gaining ground in the most powerful and advanced countries, the object of which is to admit the poorer sections to a gradually increasing share in power and […]
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani has stated that relations between the two ‘allies’ had reached the “lowest level in history” and that the feelings of mistrust towards the US was growing among his countrymen. Huqqani in his article in the US media, likened the current situation […]
A noted Saudi scholar has claimed that Bahrain’s embattled Al Khalifa royal family is seeking Indonesian mercenaries to help maintain its iron grip over the country. Ali al-Ahmad, head of Washington-based think-tank the Institute for Gulf Affairs, told Iran’s PressTV on Sunday that Bahraini officials had traveled to Indonesia, Malaysia […]
How to Die? Clerics in Pakistan are not teaching how to live but how to die! The Blasphemy laws and misinterpretation and completely misunderstanding of the beautiful Islamic teachings by the clerics in Pakistan have resulted in hate and intolerance campaigns. The clerics are openly preaching hatred and intolerance in […]
Shape up. That’s the simple message, on the way we treat women, from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. It’s contained in its “concluding observations and recommendations” published on February 2, following consideration of a report presented in Geneva on January 19 by an 11-member […]
Shehrbano Taseer too gets threats for her views against extremism Karachi: A day after her father was gunned down by an extremist, a grieving Shehrbano Taseer wrote on Twitter, “A light has gone out in our home today.” It wasn’t long before the 22-year-old realised something else: Her father’s death […]
The meteorologic data indicates that for two thirds of the days of the year, air currents arrive from Western and Eastern Europe, and for more than one-fifth of the year, air currents arrive from Saudi Arabia, Jordan and North Africa. Air pollution from North Africa and Europe containing toxic materials […]