Fri 09 June 2023: New Zealand Muslim parents have raised concerns about schools participating in ‘Pride Weeks’, an annual celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community. Scheduled to be held from June 12 to 16, the event has already sparked controversy. In a letter addressed to New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, Syed Mujeeb, a concerned Muslim […]
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Thu 08 June 2023: Pope Francis is recovering after undergoing abdominal surgery in Rome amid concerns over the pontiff’s already fragile health. “The Holy Father is well, this is the news that you and the whole world were waiting for,” Sergio Alfieri, the doctor who performed the operation at the Gemelli Hospital in the Italian […]
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Sun 04 June 2023: In his first appearance on a major television network on Sunday, Pope Francis once more made a call for peace and spoke out against war. “It is a story as old as humanity: With peace you always win, maybe a little, but you win; With war, you lose everything. Everything! And […]
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Four members of the Afzaal family were killed when a driver ran them over with a pick-up truck in London, Ontario, on June 6, 2021, in what authorities said was an anti-Muslim attack. Sat 03 June 2023: Advocates welcome funding for anti-Islamophobia education campaign in London, Ontario, as ‘step towards positive change’. Muslim community […]
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Thu 01 June 2023: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Franco Mulakkal as bishop of Jalandhar in northern India, who was acquitted last year of repeatedly raping a nun over a two year period. The Vatican announced the decision on Thursday, without giving any further information. Mulakkal, 59, was appointed bishop of the Diocese […]
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Thu 01 June 2023: Saudi Arabia has extended its ‘Makkah Route Initiative’ to Turkiye, making it easier for pilgrims from the country to plan and make their trips to the Islamic holy cities of Makkah and Madinah. Launched in 2019 as part of the ‘Guests of God Service Programme’, which itself is one of the […]
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Thousands of people in Grozny took to the streets on Tuesday to rally against a recent burning of the Quran. Photo: Yelena Afonina / TASS Wed 24 May 2023: Thousands of people marched to the streets of Grozny, regional capital of Chechnya, on Tuesday to protest the recent burning of the Quran. Nikita Zhuravel, […]
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Wed 24 May 2023: The attorney general of Illinois in the midwestern United States has released a 696-page report revealing widespread sexual abuse on the part of Roman Catholic clergy in the state — abuse it says went under-reported and, in some cases, tolerated. The report tallied 1,997 child survivors across seven decades, from the 1950s through 2019. Among […]
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Tue 23 May 2023: In April, education minister Bernard Drainville issued the ban on prayers in schools after reports of at least two Canadian schools permitting students to gather on school property for prayer were reported. Six Muslim organisations in Canada have urged the country’s Superior Court court to review and declare a provincial proclamation unconstitutional […]
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Sun 21 May 2023: The inclusion of the term Islamophobia in a UNESCO draft resolution on discrimination and racism is a positive step for all Muslim communities and humanity at large, Türkiye’s First Lady Emine Erdogan has said. The Turkish first lady in a tweet on Friday said the development, which was made possible at […]
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