Category: Religion

Mon 03 June 2019: The table was over 3,000 metres long and hosted nearly 7,000 people Egypt has won a Guinness World Record for the world’s longest iftar table. The enormous table, which was over 3,000 metres long, hosted nearly 7,000 people. It was set up in the country’s new administrative capital, which is being […]

Sat 01 June 2019: After a month of limiting nicotine in take, Ramadan can be a great time to quit smoking for good As Ramadan draws to an end, those fasting will begin to reflect on the holy month and how their bodies feel. For some, Ramadan will have been a time to embrace a […]

Sat 01 June 2019: The Saudi Supreme Court called on Sunday for sighting the Shawwal month crescent moon on Monday, the 29th day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.  The sighting of the moon marks the end of Ramadan and the advent of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, which Muslims around the world would celebrate on […]

Mon 27 May 2019: Uzbek student Luiza Muminjonova wanted to work in the country’s booming Islamic tourism sphere but last year she was expelled from a university in the capital Tashkent. The 19-year-old’s only fault was being a pious Muslim and wearing the hijab, a staple of female Islamic dress. “How dare they discriminate me and […]

Mon 27 May 2019: Thousands of bottles of liquor were crushed by a steamroller in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Monday as police warned tipplers off booze during the sacred fasting month of Ramadan. Nearly 90 percent of Indonesia’s 260 million people are Muslims, whose religion requires them to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and […]

Sun 26 May 2019 An unidentified arsonist did considerable damage to a mosque in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, but there were no casualties, the mosque’s head reported on Saturday. Ömer Oral, the head of Hagen’s Great Mosque Society, told Anadolu Agency that the arson attack took place at 10.00 a.m. when the assailant set fire […]

Sat 25 May 2019: For the last three weeks, Muslims around the world have been observing the month of Ramadan by fasting from food and drink from sunrise to sunset — a period of about 16 to 18 hours in the United States. The six to eight non-fasting hours, then, are an important time to […]

Thu 23 May 2019: Malaysian officials are disguising themselves as cooks and waiters to catch Muslims who don’t fast during Ramadan, with a rights group on Thursday blasting the “disgraceful act of spying”. Thirty-two enforcement officers from a local council in the Muslim-majority country are going undercover at food outlets as part of the scheme, The New Straits Timesnewspaper […]

Thu 23 May 2019: MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Danish adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses jailed for six years in Russia after being found guilty of organizing a banned extremist group lost his court appeal on Thursday, a spokesman for the group said. Armed police detained Dennis Christensen, a builder, in May 2017 at a prayer […]