Sun 01 March 2020: Riyadh imposed temporary ban on entry of pilgrims over fears of coronavirus Saudi Arabia has unveiled an electronic system to refund Umrah fees in the wake of the kingdom’s decision to suspend entry for pilgrims over fears of coronavirus. In a statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah said […]
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Sun 01 March 2020: (AFP) The Vatican unseals the archives of history’s most contentious popes on Monday, potentially shedding light on why Pius XII stayed silent during the extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust. Two hundred researchers have already requested access to the mountain of documents, made available after an inventory that took […]
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Fri 28 February 2020: Saudi Arabia’s suspension of Umrah travel due to the spread of coronavirus has forced some Muslim pilgrims to abandon their plans as airliners cancel flights last minute, but travel agencies are optimistic that the measures will be short-term, according to agents in the industry. As the deadly coronavirus spread to the […]
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Mon 24 February 2020: Egyptian parliament is mulling a bill that aims at granting the country’s president the right to appoint Grand Mufti, local media reported yesterday. The parliament’s religious and endowment affairs committee head, Osama Al-Abd, along with 60 other lawmakers recently submitted a draft law on the country’s “Al-Azhar Fatwa Global Centre,” which […]
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Sat 22 February 2020: Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary called for profiling of Muslim men at airports because “that is where the threat is coming from,” in an interview with the Times newspaper. The budget airline boss told the British newspaper that checks for families should be less stringent, while calling for the focus to […]
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Tue 18 February 2020: Mysterious artists such as Banksy are being praised for their works but they cannot have the same approach to a Muslim woman, says Pakistani painter Today the internet and social media have become a prominent tool for many artists to reach a wider audience. This new technology that offers a two-way […]
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Mon 17 February 2020: ‘We are totally committed to fight against all forms of populism that try to use Islamophobia to win votes,’ says UN head The UN chief on Sunday voiced his concern over rising Islamophobia in the world, calling it “intolerable.” Antonio Guterres’ remarks came during a joint news conference with Pakistan’s Foreign […]
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Mon 17 February 2020: At the British Museum, a collection of artefacts from the Muslim world is on show, which tells the history of a journey to Mecca always forbidden to non-Muslims. It features a succession of examples of the rich visual language of Islamic culture past and present, artwork created to reflect the powerful […]
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Sat 15 February 2020: (AFP) The foreign ministers of China and the Vatican have met in the first high-level encounter between the sides — a new sign of improving relations between two states with no diplomatic ties. The talks between China’s Wang Yi and Archbishop Paul Gallagher in the German city of Munich on Friday […]
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Sun 15 February 2020: The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad by Thomas Hegghammera is a biography on Abdallah Azzam and no doubt going to be the standard work on the Palestinian scholar who is seen as the founding father of global jihad. But Azzam’s legacy is also a contested one and Hegghammer […]
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