In a shocking display that does not bode well for the Catholic Church and its stance on defending the multitudes of Christians currently being persecuted in Islamic countries, Magdi Christiano Allam, a prominent covert from Islam to Christianity, has left the Catholicism. He reasoned that he could not abide the church’s “weakness” and policy of
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has helped Arab countries and Turkey increase military aid to Syrian rebels in the past few months, The News York Times reported on Monday. The report – citing air traffic data, interviews with unnamed officials as well as statements of rebel commanders – said the airlift now includes more
Anti-Muslim mobs rampaged through three more towns in Myanmar’s predominantly Buddhist heartland over the weekend, destroying mosques and burning dozens of homes despite government efforts to stem the nation’s latest outbreak of sectarian violence. President Thein Sein had declared an emergency in central Myanmar on Friday and deployed army troops to the worst-hit city,
An alleged al-Qaeda terrorist who fought against US soldiers in Afghanistan and went on to plot a bomb attack against American diplomatic facilities in Nigeria was charged Wednesday in New York. Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, also known as "Spin Ghul," was charged by a grand jury with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to
Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may be released from prison in three weeks’ time, the country’s Justice Minister Ahmed Mekki said on Sunday. Mubarak's conviction over his responsibility for the murder of demonstrators in Tahrir Square in 2011 was overturned two months ago, and a date for a new trial has been set. However,
The United States has quietly unblocked almost $500 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority which had been frozen by Congress for months. An announcement of the renewed aid to the PA was made by a top U.S. official on Friday, shortly after President Barack Obama concluded his visit to Israel and the PA.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has begun to push for a resumption of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) after meetings with the two sides, PA officials told AFP on Sunday. "Kerry began the U.S. administration's real intervention," a high-ranking official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "The U.S.
Egypt’s Islamists on Sunday blocked access to the media production zone in Cairo in protest against what they said was media bias against ruling Islamist President Mohammed Mursi. Al Arabiya correspondent reported that security forces have used teargas to disperse protesters. Clashes had erupted earlier between protesters supporting President Mursi and security forces outside
The Egyptian state prosecutor decided on Sunday to extradite to Libya two former regime officials wanted on charges of corruption, a judicial source told AFP. Former Libyan ambassador Ali Maria and Mohammed Ibrahim, the brother of senior Qaddafi-era official Ahmed Ibrahim, were arrested in Cairo on March 19 along with Muammar Qaddafi’s cousin Ahmed
In August 1994, Tom Clancy published the novel “Debt of Honor” whose climactic end featured an embittered Japan Air Lines pilot, Captain Sato-driven mad by the death of his sons and brother by America- who slams his 747 into the US Capitol building during a joint session of Congress, and murders almost the entire US
