Tue 16 November 2021: Saudi Arabia stated on Sunday that foreign pilgrims can now use approved apps to apply for permits to do Umrah and pray at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, as well as to visit the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina. The Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority “SDAIA” and the Ministry of Hajj […]
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Mon 15 November 2021: Activision the game developers behind the Call of Duty franchise have apologised after coming under fire over a scene in the latest instalment which has been deemed Islamophobic. The offensive scene appeared in Call of Duty: Vanguard depicting pages from the Holy Quran scattered on the floor, some of them smeared in blood. A big […]
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Mon 15 November 2021: Hours after U.N.-led climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, ended in a compromise on how to battle global warming, Pope Francis urged political and economic leaders to show courage and long-term vision. “Cry of the poor, united to the cry of the Earth, resounded in the last days at the United Nations […]
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Sun 14 November 2021: After 10 years of hard work in the translation of the Kalenjin Quran from its initial language in Arabic, the Muslim faithfuls from the North Rift region re-launched the final draft of the Holy Quran named ‘Kuran ne Toroor’. The Kalenjin Quran becomes the first ethnic-translated Quran in the Country. The […]
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Sun 14 November 2021: Mansour Labaki, a Lebanese priest who was sentenced to 15 years in jail in absentia by a French court for sexually abusing three girls in France, is estimated to have sexually molested 50 individuals in France and twice that number in Lebanon, according to a French lawyer. The 81-year-old priest was […]
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Fri 12 November 2021: Opposition to namaz at open spaces in Haryana’s Gurgaon reared its ugly head again today, after members reportedly affiliated with Hindu groups occupied a site in Sector 12A to stop Muslims from praying. Visuals from the site showed people sitting around – they assembled in the morning and claimed to be making a volleyball […]
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Fri 12 November 2021: According to Indonesia’s council of religious authorities, Muslims are prohibited from using crypto assets as a form of currency. The National Ulema Council, or MUI, has deemed cryptocurrency as haram, or banned, as it has elements of uncertainty, wagering and harm, Asrorun Niam Sholeh, head of religious decrees, said on Thursday […]
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Mon 08 November 2021: The Catholic Church in France has decided to financially pay thousands of people who have been sexually molested by priests, in what the president of the country’s Bishops’ Conference has described as a “decisive step.” In a speech on Monday, Eric de Moulins-Beaufort stated that the church has recognized its “institutional […]
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Mon 08 November 2021: In another Islamophobic incident in France, a cross and anti-Islamic slogans were inscribed on the walls of three mosques. The walls of the mosques, affiliated to the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), the largest Turkish-Muslim association in the country, were defaced in Montlebon, Pontarlier, and Roubaix provinces of France late […]
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Sun 07 November 2021: This weekend, jubilant crowds pelted one other with fistfuls of cow dung as part of a traditional ritual in one village to mark the end of Diwali, India’s most important Hindu festival. Similar to Spain’s “La Tomatina” — the eccentric tomato-hurling celebration of the local fruit — residents of Gumatapura instead […]
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