Thu 06 November 2025: Pope Leo met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time on Thursday, discussing the urgent need for the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and to pursue a two-state solution to end the Israel-Palestine conflict. “During the cordial talks, it was recognized that there is an urgent need to provide assistance […]
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Sun 02 November 2025: Allegation that Nigerian Christians face ‘existential threat’ seems to mirror contested claims by right-wing lawmakers. United States President Donald Trump has announced that Nigeria will be placed on a watchlist for religious freedom, based on vague claims that Christians in the country are being “slaughtered” by Muslims. In a social media post on Friday, […]
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Tue 28 October 2025: The 13th edition of the Islamic Economics and Finance Summit opened its doors to visitors on Tuesday at Istanbul-based Bogazici University. The event is organized by the Islamic Economics Research Center (IKAM) of the ILKE Foundation. Anadolu serves as its global communications partner. Ahmet Saik Oner, chair of the ILKE Foundation, stated that the organization […]
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Sun 26 October 2025: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday announced an additional £10 million (approximately $13.3 million) in security funding to protect Muslim communities from hate crimes and attacks, following his visit to a mosque in Peacehaven that was targeted in a suspected arson attack earlier this month, Anadolu reports. During his visit on […]
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Sun 19 October 2025: Portugal’s parliament has voted in favour of a bill that would prohibit face covering veils such as the burqa and niqab in public spaces. The measure was introduced by the far-right Chega party and supported by the Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Initiative, and the Centre Democratic and Social People’s Party. […]
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Thu 16 October 2025: On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unveiled a new development near Mecca’s Grand Mosque, which will provide approximately 900,000 additional indoor and outdoor prayer spaces, according to the project’s implementing company. Spanning up to 12 million square meter gross floor area adjacent to the Grand Mosque, the project […]
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Thu 16 October 2025: According to official Home Office statistics, 45% of all religious hate crimes in England and Wales (excluding London) recorded in the last year targeted Muslims — a 20% increase. The official statistics, released last week, show that Muslims were disproportionately targeted as victims of hate crimes in England and Wales in the year […]
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Tue 14 October 2025: The UK government has awarded £1 million funding to the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) — a group with links to the World Zionist Organisation which finances illegal Israeli settlements — to deliver “antisemitism training” across British universities. According to the Department for Education (DfE), the UJS will deliver around 600 […]
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Mon 13 October 2025: A recent report by the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR), released on October 10, 2025, has raised serious concerns about disproportionate police action and administrative targeting of Muslims in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, following a peaceful “I Love Muhammad” demonstration led by Muslim scholar Maulana Tauqeer Raza Khan. The fact-finding […]
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Thu 09 October 2025: Pope Leo urged global news agencies on Thursday never to betray their duty to telling the truth by focusing on “click-bait” articles and to exercise caution in using artificial intelligence tools in their reporting. “Communication must be freed from the misguided thinking that corrupts it … and from the degrading practice of […]
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