By Web Desk / Aroosa Shaukat Published: October 6, 2013 The gathering outside the Lahore church. PHOTO: MALIK SHAFIQ LAHORE: The Muslim and Christian communities came together during Sunday mass in a show of solidarity in Lahore. Hand in hand as many as 200-300 people formed a human chain outside the St Anthony’s Church adjacent to the District […]

     September 29, 2013 by admin Filed under newsletter-india Mumbai, September 27, 2013: A group of leading Islamic officials met a group of bishops in Mumbai and with one voice condemn the massacre perpetrated at a Protestant church in Pakistan. For Suhail Lokhandwala, a former chairman of the Minorities Commission, “The true Islam does not endorse any kind […]

Do you know what happened to the girl in this iconic Pulitzer prize winning photo from the Vietnam War? 8 June 1972, a plane bombed the village of Trang Bang, near Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in South Vietnam after the South Vietnamese pilot mistook a group of civilians leaving the temple for enemy […]

Nigel and Trish Branken took their children and moved into a dangerous neighbourhood to teach them how to embrace the world with God’s love: When my wife and I moved into Hillbrow, Johannesburg over a year and a half ago, the main concern expressed by many of our loving friends was for our children. People […]

Nick Vujicic Of ‘Life Without Limbs’ Shares Moving Moment With Muslim Malaysian Family The Huffington Post | By Yasmine Hafiz Posted: 09/06/2013 12:58 pm EDT Nick Vujicic was born without arms or legs, but he hasn’t let it stop him from changing lives — one young life in particular. The Christian evangelist and motivational speaker […]

The Rev. Will D. Campbell, in 1992, at work in his Tennessee home. (AP) The white Southern preacher, who practiced what he called the ‘ministry of reconciliation,’ reached out to bigots too. By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times June 8, 2013, 3:33 p.m.  The Rev. Will D. Campbell was a poor white boy from Mississippi who preached his […]

Onlookers feared the worst as a row flared between EDL chief Tommy Robinson and Muslim political commentator Mohammed Ansar. Embrace: Ansar with EDL chief Robinson Raoul Dixon / NNP As thousands of English Defence League and anti-fascist protestors took to a city’s streets yesterday, a remarkable scene unfolded away from the crowds in a back […]

Muslim leaders at York Mosque invited members of the English Defence League (EDL) in “to talk over a cup of tea” after receiving agressive threats in the wake of the Woolwich attack. Professor Mohamed El-Gomati, who is an elder at the mosque, told the York Pressthat EDL members threatened to hold a demonstration outside the mosque, […]

     The Huffington Post  |  By Jaweed Kaleem Posted: 05/23/2013 1:36 pm EDT  |  Updated: 05/23/2013 2:28 pm EDT Muslim leaders from across the globe paid tribute Holocaust victims this week during a visit to Auschwitz, the former Nazi concentration camp, where they prayed at the Wall of Death for those who were killed by genocide […]

  On May 12 Pastor Timothy Murphy began a fast of solidarity with the Guantanamo inmates who are on a hunger strike.   By Jerry Campbell CLAREMONT, Calif. (RNS) Last Sunday (May 12), Timothy Murphy began a fast of solidarity with the Guantanamo inmates who are on a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. As […]

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Herald Sun April 12, 2013 3:04PM POLICE have praised commuters who came to the defence of a man being racially abused on a Melbourne train. Furious passengers who united to take a stand against a woman who exploded in a hateful rant on Wednesday night. In a show of force against […]

Greg Clarke 8 MAY 2013 “The concept of the church’s care of ‘the poor’ was basic to the founding of the earliest hospitals. The hospital was, in origin and conception, a distinctively Christian institution, rooted in Christian concepts of charity and philanthropy. There were no pre-Christian institutions in the ancient world that served the purpose […]