Category: Religion

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 […]

Wed 22 May 2019: Since Abraham built al-Ka’ba and called for Hajj 5,000 years ago, its doors have been of interest to kings and rulers throughout the history of Mecca. Historians say that when it was first built, the Kaaba had no door or roof and was simply made of walls. The first person to […]

Sun 19 May 2019: An Austrian lawmaker has worn a headscarf during her address against a controversial bill that prohibits primary school girls across the country from wearing hijab — Muslim women’s modest clothing. Martha Bissmann, an independent MP, covered her hair during a general assembly speech on Friday to protest the measure, saying, “Let’s […]

Sat 18 May 2019: Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of a Brazilian bishop reportedly suspected of extorting priests and covering up sexual abuse, the Vatican said in a statement. The announcement comes after Pope Francis last week passed a landmark new measure to oblige those who know about sex abuse in the Catholic […]