Tue 27 January 2026: Palestinian Christian leaders are warning of the erasure of one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, as gangs of Israeli settlers continue to terrorise ancient villages in the illegally occupied West Bank. Beit Jala, a Christian town just west of Bethlehem, has maintained an unbroken Christian presence since the […]
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Sun 25 January 2026: Pope Leo XIV on Saturday stressed the risks of generative artificial intelligence, how it could usurp human identities and relationships, influence public opinion and deepen social polarisation In a message marking the World Day of Social Communications, the pope said AI systems reflect the worldview of their creators and can shape patterns of […]
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Edinburgh Central Mosque. Mon 19 January 2026: Unidentified individuals were seen vandalising Edinburgh Central Mosque in Scotland on Friday, spraying an Islamophobic message with red paint on the outside wall which read “leave Scotland” and “get out of Scotland.” Police in Scotland are investigating the incident as a potential hate crime after members of the […]
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Sun 18 January 2026: Senior clergy say outside agendas are fracturing Christian unity in the Holy Land and undermining their authority. Senior Christian leaders in Jerusalem have issued a warning against outside interference threatening the unity and future of Christianity in the Holy Land, singling out “Christian Zionism” and political actors linked to Israel. In […]
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Fri 16 January 2026: A madrasa believed to be nearly 900 years old will be brought into light in the central Anatolian city of Kayseri, after its remains were identified during an urban renewal project, local officials said. The discovery of the Islamic school was made near the Melik Mehmed Gazi Tomb, just south of […]
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Wed 14 January 2026: In a move that has left many uncomfortable, the Jammu and Kashmir Police have launched a Valley-wide exercise to collect detailed information on mosques and religious functionaries, seeking extensive personal, financial and ideological data. The order has triggered concern among clerics, political leaders and civil society groups. Individuals connected with mosques […]
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Mon 12 January 2026: Every few years, a familiar anxiety resurfaces in British public discourse: that sharia law is establishing a parallel legal system and threatening the sovereignty of English law. Those fears were reignited following Donald Trump’s recent speech to the UN, where he claimed that London wants “to go to sharia law”. Such claims ignore two […]
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Fri 09 January 2026: Pope Leo XIV told diplomats to the Vatican on Friday that war was “back in vogue,” delivering a speech warning of sabre-rattling and a weakness of multilateralism. “A diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force, by either individuals or groups […]
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Tue 06 January 2026: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly endorsed controversial policy changes at Haram Al-Sharif, backing far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir in moves that undermine decades-old arrangements governing worship at one of the most sensitive religious sites in the world. Speaking on Sunday, Netanyahu confirmed that recent changes allowing Jewish prayer […]
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Sun 28 December 2025: If 2025 revealed anything uncomfortable about India’s trajectory, it was not the arrival of something new, but the normalisation of what should never have become acceptable: Islamophobia, hate speech, violent collective punishment and institutional discrimination, says our correspondent in India. For many Indian Muslims, the year did not feel like a sudden […]
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