Mon 06 September 2021: Proceedings in the Jharkhand Assembly were disrupted on Monday by the opposition BJP, who protested over the allotment of a room for offering namaz. Before the session began for the day, BJP MLAs sat on the stairs at the entrance of the assembly chanting Hanuman Chalisa and ‘Hare Rama’ with placards. As […]
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Sun 05 September 2021: Pope Francis said on Sunday that he was praying that many countries take Afghan refugees and, in an apparent reference to the Taliban’s past restrictions on schooling for women, said it is essential that young Afghans receive an education, reports Reuters. “In these moments of upheaval, in which Afghans are seeking refuge, […]
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Fri 03 September 2021: A Pakistani artist will be showcasing the world’s largest Quran at the Dubai Expo 2020 which is set to take place next month after having been postponed last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. It is said to be the first of its kind, as the scripture will be cast on […]
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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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