Sat 28 August 2021: Turkey’s president on Friday attended the reopening of a 16th-century mosque in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Underlining that the Bascarsija Mosque was one of the symbols of the city of Sarajevo, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “We took action six years ago to restore this work … to its former […]
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Wed 25 August 2021: Addressing a youth forum in Istanbul on Wednesday, Turkey’s president called on Muslims to raise their voice on against injustices they witness. “Muslims should take responsibility for their own peace and well-being, as well as for the security and future of all humanity, and raise their voices against the injustices they […]
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Wed 25 August 2021: The Israeli government is allowing Jews to conduct prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem – also known to Jews as the Temple Mount – in a move that risks shifting the site’s status quo, The New York Times reported. In a story published on Tuesday, the Times said Rabbi Yehudah […]
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Tue 24 August 2021: Authorities in Canada are investigating a break and enter and vandalism to a Toronto mosque, Toronto police said Monday. The caretaker at the Baitul Jannah Islamic Centre discovered the break-in on Sunday, Global News reported. “They threw out all of our Qurans which were on the shelf,” said mosque president Atiqur […]
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Mon 23 August 2021: According to the ANSA news site, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Xavier Novell Goma, the bishop of Solsona in Catalonia, after he said that homosexuality was caused by a lack of a father figure. The cleric’s notion on the cause of homosexuality was aired in 2017, after which he became […]
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Mon 23 August 2021: On Monday, Australian authorities criticized a Sydney church for defying the city’s Covid-19 curfew by hosting a 60-person service near a pandemic hotspot. The church is affiliated with Christ Embassy, an international religious organization based in Lagos, Nigeria, that has a history of propagating conspiracy theories about Covid-19. Police raided the […]
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Sun 22 August 2021: Turkey and Pakistan are set to co-produce a television series on the life of Salahuddin al-Ayyubi, a revered Muslim general popularly known in the West as Saladin. Having welcomed the project offer from Pakistan’s Ansari amp; Shah Films, producer Emre Konuk, owner of Turkey’s Akli Films, announced on Saturday that they […]
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Sat 21 August 2021: US soldiers stationed at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport are providing pork-containing meal packages to Afghans who are desperate for a way out of the country. An Afghan woman, who is stranded at the airport with her children and husband, posted a photo of the food parcel on Instagram. “Feeding us […]
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Tue 10 August 2021: Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) taxpayers’ ombudsperson will launch a probe after Muslim and other minority charities submitted a complaint about being unfairly targeted for audits, the Canadian Press reported Friday. Francois Boileau said he will address the issues and concerns expressed by Muslim charities and other charities led by people of […]
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Mon 09 August 2021: The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques has chosen two women to its top leadership posts as assistants to the presidency for the first time in its history. Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais made the announcement on Sunday, appointing Dr. Al-Anoud al-Aboud and Dr. Fatima al-Rashoud as assistants […]
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