Category: Religion

Wed 17 July 2019: Saudi Arabia said it will allow some businesses to stay open 24 hours a day, an announcement that triggered puzzlement over whether it was ending rules that require shops to shut for Islam’s five daily prayers. A cabinet decision on Tuesday permitted stores and restaurants to operate all day in exchange […]

Tue 16 July 2019: Follow these tips so you can spend your time in Saudi Arabia focusing on the true purpose of your trip – worship, rather than rushing around trying to find something you forgot Hajj is the most beautiful spiritual journey that a Muslim can make, but that’s not to say that the […]

Tue 16 July 2019: TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The simple act of walking has become a display of defiance for a young Iranian woman who often moves in Tehran’s streets without a compulsory headscarf, or hijab. With every step, she risks harassment or even arrest by Iran’s morality police whose job is to enforce the […]

Tue 16 July 2019: MAKKAH — The Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques has mobilized more than 10,000 men and women staff to implement its operation plans for the upcoming Haj. Sheikh Abdurahman Al-Sudais, head of the presidency, said that the plan covers 140 initiatives in the administrative, service, guidance, engineering, technical, technological […]

Mon 15 July 2019: MAKKAH — The municipality of Makkah is planning to set up special tracks in a number of streets in Makkah for the blind to use without the need for help from the others, according to Makkah daily on Sunday.  The municipality said the special tracks for the blind will be established in […]

Sat 13 July 2019: The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has completed massive renovations at a historic mosque in Johannesburg’s Soweto township. “We were approached by leaders of the Soweto Mosque to assist in repairing its roof, but we decided to renovate the entire mosque,” Mehmet Akif Sekerci, TIKA’s coordinator in South Africa, told […]

Sat 13 July 2019: Adnan Oktar and gang are charged with espionage, attempt to murder and sexual abuse Turkish prosecutors have completed the indictment against the controversial Turkish televangelist, Adnan Oktar, and his collaborators, judicial sources said on Friday. Oktar, who owns a TV channel, was arrested in mid-2018 along with over 200 collaborators, following […]

Fri 12 July 2019: The Saudi General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Scholars welcomed pilgrims, who have begun arriving in the Kingdom to perform Hajj this year. Earlier, the Saudi cabinet renewed its call to all pilgrims not to politicize this Hajj season or raise any political or doctrinal slogans and devote their time […]

Fri 12 July 2019: Turks were left shocked and horrified when it was revealed that businessman Muzaffer Yıldırım, the partner of Turkey’s famous comedian Cem Yılmaz, is currently refusing entry to women wearing a headscarf or hijab in his hotels and cafes in Istanbul. On June 29, when Turkish businessman Engin Yakut went to the […]