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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Thu 09 October 2025: Italy’s ruling Brothers of Italy party has announced plans to introduce a bill banning Muslim women from wearing the burqa and niqab in public spaces, labeling it a move against “Islamic separatism,” Politico reported Wednesday. “Religious freedom is sacred, but it must be exercised in the open, in full respect of […]
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Wed 08 October 2025: Pope Leo XIV will travel to Türkiye and then Lebanon for his first trip abroad starting next month, Vatican News announced on Tuesday. “The Director of the Holy See Press Office, Matteo Bruni, has announced that Pope Leo will travel to Türkiye and Lebanon in late November and early December of […]
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Tue 07 October 2025: A man has been arrested following an arson attack on a mosque in East Sussex on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life. Sussex Police have said that a 46-year-old man is now in custody following an arrest made on Monday afternoon. At 9.50pm on Saturday 4 October, emergency services […]
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Mon 06 October 2025: The United States could see up to 15,000 churches close this year as declining Christian affiliation reshapes the country’s religious landscape. The closures are projected to outpace new openings by a wide margin, Axios reported, signalling a long-term transformation in American faith communities. Over the next decade, analysts expect this sharp decline to […]
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