Wed 15 December 2021: According to a Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday, the number of Americans who identify as religiously unaffiliated has increased by 6 points in the last five years and 10 points in the last decade. According to the Pew Research Center survey, 29 percent of respondents, or roughly 3 in 10 […]
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Tue 14 December 2021: Leaders of the Tablighi Jamaat movement in India have responded with anger to Saudi Arabia’s decision to ban the movement and describe it as “aberrant and perverse” and a “gateway to terrorism”. According to the Times of India, the group’s Shura (Consultative) Council said that the Saudi decision has to be viewed in the […]
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Tue 14 December 2021: Backlash and outrage erupted in Quebec, Canada, after Fatemeh Anvari, a new Grade 3 teacher at Chelsea Elementary School, was fired for wearing a ‘hijab,’ a head covering worn by Muslim women as part of their religious practice. The Muslim woman was asked to leave because Bill 21 in Quebec prohibits […]
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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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