Sat 06 December 2025: Croatian police said Tuesday that a Catholic nun who claimed to have been attacked by a stranger with a knife had actually harmed herself and then filed a false criminal report. A Croatian nun who claimed she was stabbed by a Muslim migrant shouting religious phrases fabricated the entire incident, police […]
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Sat 06 December 2025: Three decades on from the day Hindu mobs razed the historic Babri Masjid to the ground, India’s Muslims still refuse to forget its legacy. In a nation increasingly dominated by Hindutva nationalism, that unyielding memory has become the a powerful act of resistance,” writes journalist Rushda Fathima Khan. Despite the construction […]
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Sat 06 December 2025: A recent survey released by a French rights group on Thursday revealed an increase in religion-based discrimination, particularly against Muslims. According to the new 2024 edition of the Access to Rights survey conducted by the Defenseur des droits (Defender of Rights), 7% of more than 5,000 respondents reported experiencing discrimination based […]
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Fri 05 December 2025: In a major enforcement drive against noise pollution, Muzaffarnagar police have removed more than 55 loudspeakers from various mosques across the city for violating Supreme Court-mandated sound limits, officials confirmed on Wednesday. The action was carried out in areas under Civil Lines, Kotwali, and Khalapar police stations as part of a […]
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Wed 03 December 2025: Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday criticised anti-migrant activists who stoke “fears” of Islam and said co-operation between Christians and Muslims in Lebanon should be an example for Europe and the United States. The 70-year-old pope spoke to reporters on the plane at the end of his visit to Türkiye and Lebanon — his first […]
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A woman with a headscarf walks past an election campaign poster of the anti-immigration party Alternative fuer Deutschland AfD, in Marxloh, a suburb of Duisburg, Germany September 13, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay Wed 03 December 2025: A German court has ruled that a Muslim woman cannot serve as a judge or prosecutor if she refuses to […]
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Thu 27 November 2025: Pope Leo XIV embarks on his first foreign trip on Thursday, roughly six months after his election as head of the Catholic Church. The six-day journey begins in Türkiye and continues to Lebanon on Sunday, passing through two predominantly Muslim countries that host Christian minorities. Vatican State President Pope Leo XIV, at the […]
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Sun 23 November 2025: Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), the largest faction in parliament, has called for a series of harsh anti-Islam measures, including a blanket ban on headscarves in schools, a new “law banning political Islam”, and an immediate halt to mass immigration. Responding to plans by the ruling coalition government to introduce a […]
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Tue 18 November 2025: The Dutch Cabinet has postponed plans to ban law enforcement officers from wearing visible religious symbols following a warning from the Council of State, local media reported on Monday. The government put on hold the move to implement a ban on religious symbols including headscarves for special investigating officers, known as BOAs, as […]
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Mon 17 November 2025: The Vatican has returned 62 Indigenous artifacts to Canada’s Catholic bishops, describing the gesture as “a concrete sign of dialogue, respect and fraternity.” The handover comes after prolonged calls from Indigenous communities for the repatriation of cultural objects taken during the colonial era. On Saturday, the Vatican formally returned the 62 […]
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