Fri 02 December 2022: Migrant deaths in the Mediterranean are “unacceptable and almost always avoidable,” Pope Francis said on Friday, renewing a call for policymakers across the region to address the issue in a manner “beneficial to all”, Reuters reports. The 85-year-old Pontiff, son of Italian immigrants to Argentina, often speaks up for the rights of migrants, […]
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Tue 29 November 2022: Russia’s envoy has expressed Moscow’s strong dissatisfaction with the Vatican following Pope Francis’ latest condemnation of the “cruelty” of Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. Francis had told the Jesuit magazine America in an interview: “When I speak about Ukraine, I speak about the cruelty because I […]
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Fri 25 November 2022: Ukraine’s leaders will have to be “far-sighted” to secure peace, Pope Francis says, suggesting that Kyiv would have to make concessions. The pope this month had called for a ceasefire to avert the risk of escalation of the conflict and asked God to “hurry up” to end it. In an open […]
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Wed 23 November 2022: The 8th World Halal Summit and the 9th Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Halal Expo will begin in Istanbul on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. The two major gatherings on the global market for products and services conforming to Islamic guidelines (known as halal) will see the participation of nearly 500 exhibitors from 40 […]
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FILE PHOTO: Muslim mothers are protesting against an LR amendment in the Blanquer law which plans to ban school trips for parents wearing ostentatious religious symbols. (28 May-2019). Fri 18 November 2022: The city of Montpellier in southern France has shut down two Islamic schools, Anadolu Agency reported.according to local media reports. Officials carried out […]
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Fri 18 November 2022: Pope Francis has reiterated that the Vatican is ready to do anything possible to mediate and put an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the pontiff said in an interview with the Italian daily La Stampa. Asked whether he believed reconciliation between Moscow and Kyiv was possible, the pope […]
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Fri 11 November 2022: According to prosecutors and legal authorities, a priest who serves in northwest France has been charged with drugging and raping a 15-year-old whom he allegedly met on a homosexual dating app. After setting up a meeting in Paris last week using the app Grindr, the priest from a small parish close […]
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Tue 08 November 2022: A Moroccan university, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Marrakesh, established the first campus synagogue in the Arab world last week. Initiated by the Mimouna Association and the American Sephardi Federation, both organisations claim that, not only was a synagogue built on a campus in the Arab world for the first time […]
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Mon 07 November 2022: French reality TV star and model, Marine El Himer, announced her conversion to Islam, expressing her great satisfaction. Marine converted to Islam months ago and did not disclose this until Wednesday, November 2. Marine El Himer has shared images of herself on Instagram with about 1.5 million followers, wearing the hijab […]
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Sat 05 November 2022: The highlight of Pope Francis’ outreach tour to the Gulf was an open-air service attended by over 30,000 flag-waving believers on Saturday in Bahrain, a predominantly Muslim country. At Bahrain National Stadium, the largest venue in the kingdom, the crowd, some of whom were in tears, waited to witness the 85-year-old. […]
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