International Features

Project aims to preserve seeds of crops that once grew across historic Palestine, and to safeguard waning biodiversity. By Dalia Hatuqa Ramallah, occupied West Bank – A search for rare seeds may seem like something out of a fairytale, but for Vivien Sansour it is a quest to bring back what years of Israeli occupation practices and climate change have …

Larycia Hawkins was tearful at times during a news conference on Wednesday, where she discussed her departure from Wheaton College. | Kevin Tanaka/Sun-TimesWheaton College will review its handling of academic freedom issues and endow a scholarship in the name of the professor who has agreed to leave the Christian college after months of controversy over her remarks expressing solidarity with …

Samy served 33 years as private driver for royal family A Saudi royal family went out of their way and gave a warm farewell home party to its non-Muslim Sri Lankan private driver after 33 years of service. Several royal figures broke protocol to attend the party which was held at Prince Abdul Raman bin Farhan Al Saud’s palace in …

Vatican City (AFP) – The Vatican's first accord with the Palestinians — an agreement that Israel has attacked as counter-productive to the Middle East peace process — has come into force, the Holy See announced Saturday. The accord was signed in June, just over two years after the Roman Catholic Church recognised the Palestinian territories as a sovereign state in …

By Mathew Rodriguez Very often, when faced with injustice, people will take a stand. Well, one woman decided to make a stand. In a Facebook post, Mona Haydar described her decision to step out of her comfort zone and into the public. Armed with a box of doughnuts and coffee, Haydar constructed a stand outside a library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, …

Donald Trump wants Muslims banned from entering the US – but without them the country would be a much poorer place What have Muslims ever done for America? If your sole source of information were Donald Trump, you’d think that the answer was not much – apart from murdering its citizens and trying to destroy its values. The Republican presidential …