Wed 08 February 2023: The official opening of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Indonesia is to take place before the start of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, which is expected to commence this year on 22 March. The mosque which shares the same name and similar design to the iconic landmark in Abu Dhabi was […]
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Mon 06 February 2023: The Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a strong supporter of President Vladimir Putin, worked for Soviet intelligence while living in Switzerland in the 1970s, Swiss newspapers reported, citing declassified archives. According to the Sonntagszeitung and Le Matin Dimanche weeklies, the Swiss police file on the man who today serves as the spiritual head of the Russian Orthodox Church “confirms that ‘Monsignor […]
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Sat 04 February 2023: Pakistan‘s telecommunications regulatory authority has blocked the online international encyclopaedia service for publishing and failing to remove blasphemous content, an official said on Saturday. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked Wikipedia after it failed to meet a 48-hour deadline set on Wednesday to remove the sacrilegious content. “Yes, we blocked the service […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: In his first public address while in the country, Pope Francis called a stop to the “exploitation” of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the entire African continent. “It is a tragedy that these lands, and more generally the whole African continent, continue to endure various forms of exploitation. Political […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: The government of Quebec province called Monday for the resignation of Canada’s newly-appointed representative to fight Islamophobia, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he supports Amira Elghawaby. Elghawaby, a human rights activist and the world’s first government-appointed official anti-Islamophobia agent, wrote a newspaper column in 2019 critical of the then-recent passing of Quebec’s secular law, Bill 21, which […]
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Tue 31 January 2023: At least 93 people were killed and 221 more were injured in the horrifying mosque blast that targeted police officials in the secured Police Lines facility in Peshawar. Bodies were still being pulled from the rubble on Tuesday. The January 30 attack on the Sunni mosque located inside a high-security police […]
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Pope Francis boards accompanied in a wheelchair for his 40th apostolic journey that will take him to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. Tue 31 January 2023: The head of the Catholic Church is on a mission to help restore peace in two countries that have seen years of violence. Pope Francis next […]
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Mon 30 January 2023: More than a dozen people have been killed, and many others wounded in a explosion at a mosque, in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. According to the Peshawar police, at least 32 people were killed in the blast at least 150 others were injured. The suicide attacker was present in […]
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Protesters march towards Swedish embassy to protest Quran-burning, Fri 27 January 2023: Government says it is ‘appalled’ that Islamophobic acts had been repeated within days in the two European countries. Malaysia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned “in the strongest terms” the desecration of the Quran by a far-right activist in the Netherlands as demonstrators gathered outside […]
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Fri 27 January 2023: Advocacy group welcomes appointment of Amira Elghawaby to advisory role as ‘historic moment for Muslims in Canada’. Canada has appointed its first special representative on combatting Islamophobia as the government seeks to stem hatred and discrimination after a series of attacks targeting members of Muslim communities in the country in recent years. Prime […]
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