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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Thu 04 November 2021: As part of his commitment to establish more gender equality in the Church, Pope Francis named a woman to lead the Vatican governorate on Thursday. Raffaella Petrini, a Franciscan sister, was named the new secretary general of the governorate by the pontiff, making her the first woman to hold the position. […]
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Wed 03 November 2021: France has barred a campaign launched by the Council of Europe against anti-Muslim hate speech. Speaking to LCI TV, Sarah El Hairy, the minister of state for youth and engagement attached to the minister of national education, youth and sport, said the campaign by the council’s Inclusion and Anti-Discrimination Division shocked […]
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Mon 01 November 2021: Jamiat Ulama-i- Hind, India’s largest socio-religious Muslim organization will repair = affected mosques and rehabilitate houses of Muslims that were targeted by rioters in the northeastern state of Tripura last week, according to a statement Saturday. A fact-finding team from the group led by General Secretary Moulana Hakimuddin Qasmi visited different […]
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Sun 31 October 2021: The International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) on Saturday called for the formation of a global legal front to defend the rights of Muslim minorities around the world. In a Twitter post, IUMS Secretary-General Ali al-Qaradaghi questioned the impassivity of the Indian police as Hindu militants target Muslims in the country. […]
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Fri 29 October 2021: According to journalists on the scene, the meeting between US President Joe Biden and Pope Francis lasted 90 minutes, which was longer than the pontiff’s previous audiences with Biden’s predecessors, Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The meeting stretched twice as long as the one Biden held with Pope John Paul II […]
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Thu 28 October 2021: Pope Francis has accepted an invitation to visit Canada, where he will be pressed to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in the establishment of residential schools, where thousands of Indigenous children were forcibly separated from their families, denied their language and culture, and subjected to sexual abuse, violence, and malnutrition. […]
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Wed 27 October 2021: France will close seven more mosques and associations by the end of this year suspected of promoting “radical Islamism,” the country’s interior minister announced Tuesday. Gerald Darmanin welcomed the decision to close a mosque in the city of Allonnes for six months on the grounds that it defends “radical Islam.” FRANCE […]
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