BRISBANE man Dr Taher Forotan has taken out national honours at the 2013 Pride of Australia ceremony in Sydney this morning. Taher Forotan is a refugee from Afghanistan and was awarded for his work helping other refugees through the Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma. Pic: Sarah Keayes Source: News Limited An Afghan […]

29 October 2013 Last updated at 00:29 GMT By Catherine WynneBBC News In 1996, a black teenager protected a white man from an angry mob who thought he supported the racist Ku Klux Klan. It was an act of extraordinary courage and kindness – and is still inspiring people today In 1996, a black teenager protected a […]

People keep asking me what it feels like to have been assaulted in a hate crime. Honestly, I can’t come up with a better response than simply “gratitude.”I’m thankful for a few reasons. If they had attacked me any more violently, I may not be awake right now to tell my story. If they had […]

BRIAN JONESTODAY 7:38 AM Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani advocate for womens rights and access to education, appeared on the Daily Show last night, ahead of Friday’s pending announcement for the 2013 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Her answer to one of Jon Stewart’s questions left him speechless. An outspoken critic of the Taliban’s tactics […]

  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, […]