Mon 28 March 2022: The city of Minneapolis in the U.S. Midwest has allowed the Islamic call to prayer, known as the adhan, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan. The call to prayer can be recited by local mosques in the city of Minneapolis, the largest in the state of Minnesota. The city council […]
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Pope Francis visited injured Ukrainian children on March 19, who have fled war and are now being treated at Rome’s Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sun 27 March 2022: Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the “cruel and senseless” war in Ukraine, where “barbarous” acts were “destroying the future”. “More than a month has gone by […]
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A mourning tent was erected for Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Gaza. (Photo: via Twitter) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sun 27 March 2022: The people of the Gaza Strip fear Iran’s support for Hamas aims to spread Shiism in the Sunni-majority enclave. The Gaza Strip’s population has long been predominantly Sunni, with almost no presence of Shiism. But […]
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Sat 26 March 2022: Saudi Arabia has confirmed that it will continue to broadcast uninterrupted live footage from the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina after an announcement banning the filming of congregational prayers caused uproar online. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance announced that mosques in the country would not be allowed […]
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Thu 24 March 2022: A French court, on Wednesday, annulled the government’s decision to close a mosque near the city of Bordeaux, Anadolu News Agency reports. Sefen Guez Guez, the lawyer of the Association of the Al Farouk Mosque, said that the Bordeaux Administrative Court annulled the Gironde Governorate’s 14 March decision to close the mosque for […]
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Tue 22 March 2022: Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said Islamophobia grew after the 9/11 terror attacks and went on unchecked because the Muslim countries did nothing to check the wrong narrative that Islam was equated with terrorism. Addressing the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Islamabad, Imran Khan said that there […]
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Pope Francis visited Ukrainian children in the Vatican hospital 19 children who arrived from Ukraine after the start of the war were hospitalized there. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sun 20 March 2022: Pope Francis has denounced Russia’s “repugnant war” against Ukraine as a “cruel and sacrilegious inhumanity”. In some of his strongest words yet since Russia’s invasion on […]
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Sun 20 March 2022: SOHR sources have reported that “Dar Al-Zahraa” of the Iranian Cultural Center has begun registering the names of children to undergo new “Shiite” doctrinal courses in Al-Hatlah town in the northern countryside of Deir Ezzor, where the majority population has become followers of “Shiite” sect, as well as inaugurated new courses […]
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Sun 20 March 2022: violent attack took place in a local mosque on Saturday in one of Canada’s populated cities, Mississauga in a renewed Islamophobic attack as such kinds of hate crimes are on the rise globally. Speaking exclusively to Anadolu Agency (AA), Imam Ibrahim Hindy said the worshipers heard the noise of a man […]
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Sat 19 March 2022: Uighur activists decry China’s co-sponsorship of General Assembly resolution alongside Muslim-majority nations France, the European Union and India objected to the creation earlier this week of a United Nations-recognised international day to combat Islamophobia. Members of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution proposed by Pakistan to mark […]
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