In the beginning of the Lenten Season I happened to talk a good friend of mine in a metro city. It was Ash Wednesday so we began talking with the special rituals of the day. He told me that he and his wife attended the special prayer services but his son chose to remain at home. He pointed that hear

The churches contribution to workers goes way behind the year 1891, when Pope Leo XIII released the first encyclical of the Catholic Church, Rerum Novarum, when he made us aware of the rights and dignity of labour. Rerum Novarum focused on the workers contribution to the Catholic Church. Thus the Eu

From last 9 years are struggling for our pride, fighting to remove the label of terrorist. Islam is considered to be the most dangerous religion in the world. Muslims are not even considered human these days. There are always some cruel intimates in a society but that doesn’t mean that the whole soc

The Importance of the Resurrection for Christian Faith
Can we call Christians Easter people or people of “the eighth day,” the day of the new creation, the day of the Lord’s Resurrection from the dead?
Does Resurrection stands as the great hope of the People of God of the New Covenant, the Churc

Iraqis say Allah kareem (God is generous) as a way of expressing trust in the hands of fate to take care of them in an uncertain future. As the shape of Iraq’s new government slowly comes into focus after the second national elections since the fall of Saddam Hussein, there is reason for Iraqis to f

At 9:20 am on 10 March, a routine office meeting was shattered by the sound of armed militants storming World Vision's office in northwest Pakistan. The gunmen opened fire and detonated a bomb, destroying the office as they left. Six World Vision staff members, including two women, were killed. Eigh

In the halls of the United Nation's New York bureau, officials have been considering a proposal to unify the UN’s many organisations promoting women’s equality and rights into a single “gender entity”. This entity would have a greatly increased budget – exactly how much is still being debated – and

Following five years of tense relations between the United States and Syria, the Barack Obama Administration has appointed a new ambassador to Damascus – the current Deputy Ambassador to Iraq, Robert Ford. The nomination shows the central importance of Iraq to US-Syria relations. The US war on Iraq

Even after seven years of launching the programme, there is no awareness about this scheme even in different stakeholders, forget about the farmers. A study done by Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group in Uttar Pradesh revealed that only 5% farmers know about crop-insurance scheme whereas 95 % of th

It was supposed to be an exercise in cross-cultural reporting: find a story that would highlight the common humanity shared by all nations and peoples.
As a Jordanian and an Israeli we were a logical pairing. Our countries are neighbours supposedly at peace, yet both are part of a regional conflict

A bearer of hope, Pakistani American rock star Salman Ahmad’s recent memoir, Rock & Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star’s Revolution, is suffused with the warmth of spirituality and the author’s deep-rooted faith in God. “We can only wake up each day and go out and plough the fields, armed with our God-c

Veiled Voices is a film filled with loud, bright stories that enlighten an audience in need of authenticity about Islam in general and the lives of Muslim women in particular. Brigid Maher, a director, cinematographer and editor who teaches in the Film and Media Arts Division at American University

The Magen Abraham synagogue, in the heart of downtown Beirut, is bustling with renovations. Workmen are busy returning this 80-year-old place of worship to its former splendour, although the local Jewish community has dwindled dramatically – from over 22,000 prior to 1958 to less than 300 by the end

The concept of mission comes from the Great Commission of Lord Jesus to his disciples to make disciples from all nations. ( St. Matthew 28:19-20). The material supports initiated by the apostles and the missionaries were originally aimed at helping the lesser privileged people and to demonstrate the

TB cure is still a distant reality for these villagers
Around 110 kilometers of state capital of Uttar Pradesh, residence of Ganga Jamuni village are fighting against-tuberculosis (TB) since their three generations. This is the third generation of TB cases in many families of this village. ‘My fore