by Sean Reilly | Jul 22, 2008
A Christian father in Pakistan is trying without success to gain custody through the courts of his two pre-teen daughters who were kidnapped and made to convert to Islam – writes Anto Akkara. On 12 July 2008, a judge in Pakistan’s Punjab province ignored...
by Sean Reilly | Jun 2, 2008
An interfaith television game show, believed to be the first in Britain, in which Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh contestants compete against one another for cash prizes is to be broadcast weekly from the London studios of the Islam Channel from mid-June...
by Sean Reilly | May 29, 2008
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali of Rochester, who earlier this year caused anger by suggesting that some Muslim communities were ‘no go areas’, has created a fresh argument by claiming that the collapse of a ‘Christian nation’ has left Britain in a moral vacuum. The comments...
by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
The leadership of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) has praised an initiative by King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia for a reinforced dialogue between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They said in a statement that they considered it to be an ‘important...
by Sean Reilly | May 9, 2008
The Quilliam Foundation, a new think tank, is named after William Quilliam (1856-1932), an Englishman who embraced Islam and set up the first mosque in Britain, in Liverpool. According to the founders of this initiative, the history of European Islam — and especially...
