Tue 14 December 2021: Saudi Arabia has banned the Tablighi Jamaat, a transnational Islamic revivalist movement that originated in India, over concerns that it poses a “danger to society” and that it is “one of the gates of terrorism”. The move comes as the kingdom’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs called upon its network of mosques […]
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Sun 12 December 2021: The 15th century manuscript of the Quran in Sivas’ Ziya Bey Yazma Eserler Kütüphanesi (Ziya Bey Manuscripts Library) fascinates all those who see it with its writing style and other features The Quran, which was donated to the Ziya Bey Manuscripts Library (Ziya Bey Yazma Eserler) Kütüphanesi in Sivas by a […]
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Sat 11 December 2021: The long-standing issue of rubbish collection appears to be wreaking havoc on the Italian city. To keep a lid on it, the authorities have asked Rome citizens to use less wrapping paper on their gifts this Christmas. The city’s new officials want to make a concentrated effort to keep their pledge […]
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Sat 11 December 2021: Amid minarets of mosques and an oil field in the desert, the largest Catholic church on the Arabian Peninsula opened its doors in Bahrain on Thursday. The huge Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia, with a capacity of 2,300, will serve the small Catholic community of the Gulf country, in which […]
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Fri 10 December 2021: The name of the Islamic prophet, “Muhammad” has become the most popular boys’ name in the United Kingdom in 2021, a British website focusing on pregnancy and baby care has said in a blog post. “There was a change at the top of the girls’ chart as Olivia reclaimed the top […]
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Wed 08 December 2021: Rights groups record more than 300 attacks on Christians and their religious places in the first nine months of this year. New Delhi/Roorkee, India – In late October, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met and invited Pope Francis to India, the country with the second-largest Christian population in Asia. However, in a speech about […]
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Tue 07 December 2021: On Monday, members of the right-wing Bajrang Dal, together with hundreds of villagers, were seen barging into a school in Madhya Pradesh and flinging stones at the premises, saying that the Christian Missionary institution was converting pupils to Christianity. The incident occurred when Class 12 students were studying for a mathematics […]
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Tue 07 December 2021: The arson attempt last week on a mosque on the Greek side of the long-divided Cyprus island “will not go unanswered,” the Turkish president said on Monday. “Unfortunately there was an [attempt] against our mosques in southern Cyprus. Of course, this operation in southern Cyprus will not go unanswered,” Erdogan told […]
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Mon 06 December 2021: Creating a world record for a one-of-a-kind thing is memorable, but breaking your own world record again is driven by a desire to be even better. This is true for the Gay family of Hudson Valley, New York. This family broke their own world record for the most Christmas lights on a residential property with a display of 687,000 lights. This family set the Guinness World Record for the most bulbs in a single day for the first time in 2014, with 601,736 bulbs. Since then, they have been making concerted efforts to break the record. According to the Albany Times-Union, the family also hopes to raise $500,000 for the fire department and local charities from visitors to the drive-through display they set up this year. The massive displays are created by Tim Gay, Grace Gay, and their three grown children. After the addition of animation in 2007, it began to gain popularity among visitors. “It always felt pretty cool being a part of something so big. It’s really been […]
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Sat 04 December 2021: On Saturday, Pope Francis arrives in Athens for the first time in two decades, amid high security in the Greek capital amid anti-papal sentiment among Orthodox hardliners. On Sunday, the pope will return to the Greek island of Lesbos, which he last visited in 2016 during the height of the migration […]
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