The plight of Pakistan’s religious minorities RICHARD POTTER Editor’s Note: This is part one in our series on Pakistan’s persecuted religious minorities. Click here to read part two, focused on the Ahmadi Muslim population. Credit: Pakistani Christian News Nestled in the outskirts of Bangkok, hidden from the tremendous flow […]
BORDER CROSSINGS JUNE 9, 2016 CHOOSING BETWEEN SHADOWS: PART II RICHARD POTTER Editor’s Note: This essay is the second in a two-part series on persecuted religious minorities fleeing Pakistan and seeking […]
Momani says no changes to sealed border policy By Khetam Malkawi – Oct 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Border Guards help Syrians cross the border into Jordan in this May 4 photo (Photo by Hassan Tamimi) AMMAN — Based on recent developments and upon further discussions with international agencies, […]
When a Syrian peasant woman approaches our table in a small Ottoman restaurant, the locals step forward to give her coins. It puts to shame the liars of the Brexit campaign and their hatred of the foreigners who supposedly threaten little England Robert Fisk Kilis @indyvoices 176 comments Syrian refugees […]
Queen Margrethe’s comment came in a wide-ranging interview with Der Spiegel. Photo: JAN WOITAS/Scanpix Published: 04 Oct 2016 00:57 GMT+02:00 With Denmark once again engaged in a national conversation about what makes one ‘Danish’, Queen Margrethe II told German newspaper Der Spiegel that she represents “all people who are citizens […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad makes comments during a meeting with Chairman of Torstar. On 5 October 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was visited by Mr John Honderich, Chairman of the Board at Torstar Corporation (media […]
MIGRATION SERIES (PART 4) By Duc-Quang Nguyen OCT 6, 2016 – 16:17 The free movement of people accord is in the line of fire as Europe battles with its migration crisis. But which European countries have more people leaving than arriving? We took a look at the data. It’s over […]
Her Majesty urges Germany to support refugees by investing in Jordan By JT – Oct 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Her Majesty Queen Rania delivers a speech at the Day of German Industry in Berlin on Thursday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — Her Majesty Queen Rania on Thursday […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP KAPITAN ANDREEVO, Bulgaria This file photo taken on February 11, 2011 shows a barbed wire fence near the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing point between Bulgaria and Turkey. (AFP Photo) The EU’s beefed-up version of its struggling border force went into operation Thursday, in a rare […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred; saving a life is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Reuters By Crispian Balmer | ROME More than 5,000 migrants […]
Ahmadiyya Muslims at event to welcome spiritual leader say they’re working hard to fit in By John Rieti, CBC News Posted: Oct 04, 2016 A young Ahmadiyya Muslim girl welcomes the caliph, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, with a sign that means ‘Welcome, present one.’ The spiritual leader arrived in Toronto on Monday […]
‘Immigration’s just a phenomenally important source as far as the vitality of religion in Canada’ By Judy Aldous, CBC News Posted: Oct 04, 2016 2:00 AM MT Last Updated: Oct 04, 2016 2:00 AM MT Father Ephrem Kardouh serves communion to a young girl at St. Basil’s Melkite Greek Catholic Church. […]
The rights group has criticized developed countries for not accepting enough refugees. BY JACK MOORE ON 10/4/16 AT 11:58 AM CLOSESyrian Refugees In Jordan Struggle To Go To School Just ten countries host more than half of the world’s refugees with wealthy nations showing a lack of responsibility in absorbing […]
WORK INTEGRATION How Graubünden integrates asylum seekers in the job market SOCIETY http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:42438540 EMBED CODE OCT 3, 2016 – 17:00 People fleeing conflict or persecution have to battle to be recognised as refugees by countries like Switzerland. It’s another challenge to integrate into a foreign culture, especially without a job. […]
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) will be ripped apart unless Brussels fat cats abandon their doomed migrant quota policy, the Austrian foreign minister has warned. By JOEY MILLAR PUBLISHED: 21:20, Mon, Oct 3, 2016 GETTY The EU’s proposed migrant quota could rip apart the 28-country club Sebastian Kurz said the “totally […]
September 29, 2016 Said Alam Khan PESHAWAR – The UNHCR has formally inaugurated its second Voluntary Repatriation Centre (VRC) at Azakhel in Nowshera district on Wednesday to facilitate safe and dignified return of Afghan refugees. The opening of new centre would enable UNHCR to facilitate return of up to […]
Sep 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY Elliott Abrams, a former Reagan and Bush administration official and a former colleague on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), wrote the article “The United States bars Christian, not Muslim, refugees from Syria”, provocative, as its title suggests, but […]
ASYLUM STUDY SEP 23, 2016 – 09:14 Europe is in the grip of a migration crisis. Here, Italian officers rescue a woman from a crowded wooden boat carrying more than 700 migrants (Keystone) Europeans are more likely to accept asylum seekers who have a higher employability, have been persecuted […]
MIGRATION SERIES (PART 3) By Duc-Quang Nguyen SEP 22, 2016 – Phrases like “refugee crisis” and “migrant waves” have routinely made the headlines in recent years. But is the prevailing feeling that Europe is facing an unparalleled level of mass migration backed by hard numbers? Here is a much quoted […]
Sep 20,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL World leaders are meeting in New York where the United Nations General Assembly is holding the first-ever summit on “Addressing large movements of refugees and migrants”. With numbers of people forced to flee conflict and hunger in their countries unprecedented since World War II, […]