Up to 20 people stabbed at Pennsylvania high school
(CNN) — A male sophomore went on a stabbing spree at his Pittsburgh-area high school early Wednesday, an emergency management agency spokesman said. At least 20 students at Franklin Regional […]
Ukraine crisis: Is Russia ready to move into eastern Ukraine?
Source: BBC Ukraine’s interior minister has warned pro-Russian activists who have taken over state buildings in eastern cities to enter talks to find a political solution or face “force”. Arsen […]
Flood hero from Southfields honored on national television
Source: Your Local Guardian By Tom Gillespie, Reporter, 18th March 2014 A public-spirited schoolboy has been declared a ‘Flood Hero’ by the ITV morning show Daybreak. Zafar Ahmad, 16, rushed […]
King calls for ‘culture of dialogue’ as he meets Pope
Epigraph And thou shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are savants […]
Ukraine crisis: Protesters declare Donetsk ‘republic’
Pro-Russian protesters who seized the regional government building in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk are reported to have declared a “people’s republic”. The rebels have called for a referendum on […]
How Jesus became God – Ehrman vs Gathercole
Epigraph: Indeed they are disbelievers who say, ‘Surely, Allah is none but the Messiah, son of Mary,’ whereas the Messiah himself said, ‘O children of Israel, worship Allah Who is my Lord […]
Book Review: The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World
Source: The Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication of North America, spring 2014 volume – Muslim Sunrise 2014 spring By Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Epigraph: […]
Scottish Independence: Role of religion ‘should be recognised’
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Pulse signal discovered in ocean by a Chinese Ship
Source: China Daily PERTH, Australia – Haixun 01, a Chinese patrol ship searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, detected a pulse signal with a frequency of 37.5kHz per second […]
Sex Abuse Cost The U.S. Catholic Church Nearly $3 Billion According To Report By Bishops Conference
Source: The Huffington Post By Yasmine Hafiz The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops released their eleventh annual report on the progress of implementing the Charter for the Protection of […]
Jesus a Muslim? Fail
Epigraph: The Messiah, son of Mary, was only a Messenger; surely, Messengers like unto him had indeed passed away before him. And his mother was a truthful woman. They both […]
God Is Not a Christian by Desmond Tutu
Source: The Huffington Post The following is excerpted from the Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s new book, ‘God Is Not A Christian: And Other Provocations.’ This talk also comes from a forum […]
Turkey Twitter ban: Constitutional court rules illegal
People across Turkey have staged a number of street protests against the ban Continue reading the main story in BBCRelated Stories Turkish tweets from hidden networks Twitter ‘ignored Turkish courts’ […]
Science and religion need each other
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US Supreme Court strikes down overall donor limits
Source: BBC Critics say the ruling will expand even further the influence of big money in politics Continue reading the main story Related Stories US high court weighs election limits […]
Cheney rips Obama over Middle East, NSA
David Jackson, USA TODAY April 1, 2014 Mother Jones has obtained a tape of a closed door speech by Dick Cheney in which the former vice president rips President Obama over […]
Thrust for ‘Arabic’ science urged
Source: TheGulfToday DUBAI: An Iraqi born British physicist, Prof. Jim Al-Khalili, has called for rejuvenation of science advancement in the Arab and Muslim world by building infrastructures and changing attitude […]
UK: Number of Muslims in prison doubles in decade to 12,000
Source: The Independent The number of Muslims in the prison population has more than doubled to nearly 12,000 in a decade, figures from the Ministry of Justice show. The dramatic […]
‘Anyone but Modi’: many Indian Muslims fear the worst
Source: Dawn.com By ADAM PLOWRIGHT and ANNIE BANERJI AYODHYA: Some recoil at his name, while others still refuse to acknowledge his popularity. India’s Muslims have watched the rise of election front-runner Narendra Modi […]
Another victory for Erdogan
Global Post: ISTANBUL, Turkey — By the early hours of Monday morning, it appeared clear that the party of Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, won an extraordinary victory in countrywide municipal […]