Islam would say the rule of celibacy for priesthood is an unnatural rule. Someone is beginning to see the light. A true religion should have a deep insight to human nature. Top Irish Catholic cleric calls for church to end celibacy for priests By Peter Taggart, CNN Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) – A respected former Catholic bishop [...]
By Richard Allen Greene, CNN People look at Zeinab Chami a little warily sometimes, she says, especially when she travels outside big cities. She started wearing a headscarf when she was in her early 20s, making herself “a visible Muslim.” That “can really be an emotional strain,” she says. Life is getting harder for American Muslims, [...]
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish ‘Facebook’ separates the sexes By Jessica Ravitz, CNN (CNN) - Showing that modernity might, just might, find its place even in a world predisposed to the most traditional of customs, in walks FaceGlat: an ultra-Orthodox Jewish answer, at least for some, to Facebook. Among the most conservative of Orthodox Jews, often referred to as Haredi Jews, [...]
CNN’s Soledad O’Brien looks at how some are fighting debt from the pulpit in “Almighty Debt: A Black in America Special,” premiering October 21 at 8 p.m. ET. Moncks Corner, South Carolina (CNN) – Every day, before sunrise, Zubaidah Gibbs wakes to pray, then spends hours more singing praises to God under a tree outside her home. She [...]
Discipleship of Jesus The Baptist to John By Sh. Omar Baloch Chapter 1: John Teaches Jesus Jesus’ followers once asked him “teach us to pray as John taught his disciples”, and Jesus teaches them the prayer that he had learned from John and also gives the gist of what the purpose of their movement was [...]
{وَالَّذِي هُوَ يُطْعِمُنِي وَيَسْقِينِ وَإِذَا مَرِضْتُ فَهُوَ يَشْفِينِ} And Abraham prayed, “And He feeds me and quenches my thirst and when I fall sick then He (Allah) cures me.” [Soorah Shu'araa: 80] In this statement of the Quran by Abraham is a great scientific fact. That is our food is directly related to our health [...]
by Shibli Zaman In the late 16th century a young boy collecting scraps of wreckage from the docks wondered if he’d ever leave Faversham in the borough of Kent, the hottest place in the entire United Kingdom. It was a marshy place of little importance to anyone but the brigand. Its docks were a haven [...]
John Ward or Birdy (c. 1553 – 1622), also known as Jack Ward and under his Muslim nameYusuf Reis, was a notorious English pirate around the turn of the 17th century who later became a Muslim operating out of Tunis during the early 17th century. His real name was Captain Jack Ward and he was also known as Jack Birdy. He [...]
One version goes back to the early 1800′s, and that the cowboy hat evolved from the Sombrero. And the Sombrero came from Muslim Spain. From the Sombrero came the bowler hat, and the cowboy hat. The story goes that cattle herders, arriving from the East to work on the plains, adopted the sombrero and remodelled [...]
When we think of Indians we picture a warrior with a spear or bow and arrow sitting on a horse. But, the Indians did not always have horses. In fact, they did not always have bows and arrows, but that is a different story. This page is about horses and Indians. So, even before there [...]
