Wed 22 September 2021: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui in Meerut on Tuesday night on charges of alleged illegal religious conversions, reported PTI. Siddiqui is one of the prominent clerics from western Uttar Pradesh and the president of Global Peace Center as well as Jamia Imam Waliullah Trust. The […]
Continue Reading
Mon 20 September 2021: The new culture secretary of the United Kingdom has been accused of Islamophobia after describing Muslim women wearing a burqa – a full-body covering with a face veil – as a “medieval” dress code. She was appointed to the post during a Cabinet reshuffle last week. Within the bounds of U.K. […]
Continue Reading
Mon 20 September 2021: Anti-Muslim hatred and xenophobia, which disrupt the daily lives of Muslims, have taken politics hostage in the West, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Sunday. Erdoğan noted that both ideologies have been shaping state policies and have become destructive trends that pose a direct threat to social peace. Erdoğan arrived in New York […]
Continue Reading
Sun 19 September 2021: When it comes to resolving clerical abuse, Pope Francis has urged Catholics to focus on the victims rather than the Catholic Church’s reputation. “Only by facing the truth of these cruel behaviours and humbly seeking the forgiveness of the victims and survivors, will the Church be able to find its way,” […]
Continue Reading
Sat 18 September 2021: French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Friday announced the closure of the Muslim-owned publishing house Nawa, describing it as contrary to Western values and having separatist tendencies. Taking to Twitter, Darmanin wrote: “I have started the termination process due to some of the works of the Islamist publishing house Nawa, in […]
Continue Reading
Sat 18 September 2021: A French court convicted a billboard owner to a €10,000 fine on Friday after he used a sign to mock COVID measures by portraying President Emmanuel Macron as Adolf Hitler. Michel-Ange Flori announced on Twitter that he will appeal the court’s decision in Toulon, southern France. “I can’t believe it,” he […]
Continue Reading
Fri 17 September 2021: After a long legal fight, two ornately adorned 18th-century doors stolen from a Cypriot church decades ago have finally arrived on the split island from Japan. On Thursday, the Orthodox Church of Cyprus legally took over the doors of the church of Saint Anastasios in Peristeronopigi village. The church, which was […]
Continue Reading
Thu 16 September 2021: After receiving information about a possible threat to a synagogue, German police arrested four people, including a 16-year-old boy, on Thursday. Late Wednesday, police increased up security around a synagogue in Hagen, a town of 200,000 people on the outskirts of Germany’s Ruhr industrial region in the west. The warning came […]
Continue Reading
Thu 16 September 2021: “Abortion is murder”, the Church cannot change its position, but “every time the bishops have not confronted the problem as pastors, they have taken sides politically.” These were Pope Francis’ words during a conversation with journalists on the papal flight from Bratislava to Rome, at the conclusion of his trip to […]
Continue Reading
Tue 14 September 2021: On Monday, a militia leader was sentenced to 53 years in prison for the 2017 bombing of a mosque outside of Minneapolis that “terrified” the community of Somali immigrants it served. After a five-week trial, Emily Claire Hari, 50, was found guilty of five federal crimes linked to the pipe bombing […]
Continue Reading
