Wed 22 July 2020: A Saudi Arabian man who was missing for three days has been found in the middle of a desert in Riyadh province while he was in the “sujood” or prostration praying position, prompting hundreds of social media users to pray for him online. The man’s family filed a missing person report […]
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Mon 20 July 2020: Government takes flak for controversial documentation center plans that would observe Muslim associations The center-right People’s Party (OVP) and Green Party government in Austria is preparing to institute a controversial surveillance program on Muslims in the country in a supposed bid to fight against so-called “political Islam.” In the initiative announced by the […]
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Mon 20 July 2020: Ahead Eid al-Adha Muslim festival, overall sales of sacrificial animals could fall due to new COVID-19 restrictions Traffic jams, crowds of buyers, and chants from sellers were the usual scenes at a sprawling makeshift cattle market at the highway that connects the port city of Karachi to the rest of the […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: Muslim pilgrims who will partake in this year’s limited Hajj amid the coronavirus pandemic have started home isolation, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umrah said on Sunday. “According to the health protocol approved for Hajj, pilgrims who met the health requirements and conditions for this year’s Hajj began today the 7-day home isolation procedures,” the […]
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Sun 19 July 2020: Religious leaders send letters to Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate praising reopening of Hagia Sophia as mosque Leaders of Muslim communities around the globe are welcoming Turkey’s decision to make Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia a mosque again and congratulating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the move. In letters and phone calls to […]
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Sat 18 July 2020: Thousands of Sudanese Islamic groups and supporters of ousted president Omer Al-Bashir staged a protest on Friday in the capital Khartoum against a new set of laws that have scrapped various Islamic laws, Anadolu Agency reports. The anti-government protests, which erupted from numerous mosques following Friday prayers, accused the government of apostasy and urged people to […]
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Fri 17 July 2020: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stated that the number of churches and synagogues in Turkey is twice the number of mosques in any European country. This came in a speech after he chaired a government meeting at the presidential complex in Ankara on Tuesday, where he pledged to preserve the World Heritage […]
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Fri 17 July 2020: Master architect Yilmaz says 329 Ottoman works turned into churches and bell towers across Europe ISTANBUL (AA) – Searching and traveling across the lands that constituted the Ottoman Empire, a master architect traced Turkish buildings in 18 countries and found at least 329 of them turned into churches or bell towers. Speaking […]
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Thu 16 July 2020: France’s newly-appointed Prime Minister, Jean Castex, has vowed to be “intransigent” in defending France’s official secularism, promising to fight “radical Islamism in all its forms” as “an absolute priority”. Unveiling a new government policy in Paris on Wednesday, Castex told the National Assembly that the French Republic was “shaken to its […]
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Wed 15 July 2020: Stoking a potential controversy, embattled Prime Minister K.P Sharma Oli on July 13 claimed that the “real” Ayodhya lies in Nepal, not in India and that Lord Ram was born in Thori in southern Nepal. As he accused New Delhi of “encroaching on cultural facts” amid frayed diplomatic relations between the […]
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