Sun 03 October 2021: Thousands of paedophiles have operated inside the French Catholic Church since 1950, according to the head of an independent panel examining the scandal, who spoke to AFP only days before the report’s release. According to Jean-Marc Sauve, the commission’s research discovered between 2,900 and 3,200 paedophile priests or other members of […]
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Thu 30 September 2021: It has been more than 800 years since the birth of Islam’s great Mevlana Jalaladdin Rumi, a 13th-century Sufi mystic, poet, philosopher and theologian who was born on Sept. 30, 1207, but Rumi’s influence has never lost its touch with the lands that he blessed. As such a special ceremony was […]
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Thu 30 September 2021: Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin announced on Tuesday that France is closing six mosques and disbanding other organizations suspected of spreading extremist propaganda. A third of the 89 places of worship “suspected of being radical” and flagged by the intelligence services had been checked since November 2020, he told Le Figaro newspaper. Of those, […]
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Wed 22 September 2021: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui in Meerut on Tuesday night on charges of alleged illegal religious conversions, reported PTI. Siddiqui is one of the prominent clerics from western Uttar Pradesh and the president of Global Peace Center as well as Jamia Imam Waliullah Trust. The […]
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Mon 20 September 2021: The new culture secretary of the United Kingdom has been accused of Islamophobia after describing Muslim women wearing a burqa – a full-body covering with a face veil – as a “medieval” dress code. She was appointed to the post during a Cabinet reshuffle last week. Within the bounds of U.K. […]
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Mon 20 September 2021: Anti-Muslim hatred and xenophobia, which disrupt the daily lives of Muslims, have taken politics hostage in the West, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Sunday. Erdoğan noted that both ideologies have been shaping state policies and have become destructive trends that pose a direct threat to social peace. Erdoğan arrived in New York […]
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Sun 19 September 2021: When it comes to resolving clerical abuse, Pope Francis has urged Catholics to focus on the victims rather than the Catholic Church’s reputation. “Only by facing the truth of these cruel behaviours and humbly seeking the forgiveness of the victims and survivors, will the Church be able to find its way,” […]
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Sat 18 September 2021: French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Friday announced the closure of the Muslim-owned publishing house Nawa, describing it as contrary to Western values and having separatist tendencies. Taking to Twitter, Darmanin wrote: “I have started the termination process due to some of the works of the Islamist publishing house Nawa, in […]
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Sat 18 September 2021: A French court convicted a billboard owner to a €10,000 fine on Friday after he used a sign to mock COVID measures by portraying President Emmanuel Macron as Adolf Hitler. Michel-Ange Flori announced on Twitter that he will appeal the court’s decision in Toulon, southern France. “I can’t believe it,” he […]
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Fri 17 September 2021: After a long legal fight, two ornately adorned 18th-century doors stolen from a Cypriot church decades ago have finally arrived on the split island from Japan. On Thursday, the Orthodox Church of Cyprus legally took over the doors of the church of Saint Anastasios in Peristeronopigi village. The church, which was […]
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