Wed 14 April 2021: The Paris Notre-Dame Cathedral, which was severely damaged by a major fire in 2019, will reopen in 2024, French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot said on Wednesday, adding that 830 million Euros (over $992 million) would be spent on restoration. “A considerable emotion gripped France and the world. 830M have been collected, […]
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Wed 14 April 2021: The government of Pakistan has decided to impose a ban on the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan under the anti-terrorism law, Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed announced on Wednesday. The file will be taken to the Federal Cabinet for approval, he said, pointing out that the decision was taken on the request of the Punjab […]
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Wed 14 April 2021: President Cyril Ramaphosa has wished the South African Muslim community a blessed Holy Month of Ramadan. Ramadan, which begins today, is a period during which Muslims around the world engage intensively in prayerful devotion, fasting, other forms of abstention and acts of charity. “I wish all Muslims well for this Holy […]
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Wed 14 April 2021: Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has threatened to sue the prison in which he is jailed, accusing it of withholding the Quran – a holy book he intended to study while serving his sentence. In an Instagram post announcing his first lawsuit against prison officials, he said: “The thing is, they’re not giving my […]
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Wed 14 April 2021: Islamophobia has turned into one of the instruments used by Western politicians to cover up their failures, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Sunday. Speaking at a meeting with the women’s branch of the Union of International Democrats (UID), a Turkish nongovernmental organization (NGO), in Istanbul, Erdoğan said: “Politicians who fail in foreign […]
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Mon 12 April 2021: France’s interior minister directed law enforcement agencies Sunday to step up vigilance around Muslim places of worship in the country and condemned the defacing of an Islamic center with hateful graffiti as “unacceptable.” “The anti-Muslim inscriptions that have been inscribed on this cultural and religious center are unacceptable. Freedom of worship […]
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Mon 12 April 2021: Tarawih, Qyam and Isha’a prayers will be combined and shortened during the holy month of Ramadan in all of Saudi Arabia’s mosques, the Kingdom’s Two Holy Mosques Affairs Presidency said on Sunday. The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance clarified that the committee concerned with reviewing the necessary precautionary measures […]
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Sun 11 April 2021: Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (Dubai Economy) today issued a circular stating that restaurants in the emirate will not have to screen visible dining areas during fasting hours in the Holy Month of Ramadan. Restaurants will be allowed to serve customers without putting in place curtains, dividers or facades as has […]
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Sun 11 April 2021: A giant new statue of Christ being constructed in southern Brazil will rise even higher than the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue that overlooks Rio de Janeiro. A head and outstretched arms were added this week to the statue, which has been under construction since 2019 in the city of Encantado, […]
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As part of the ‘anti-separatism’ bill, the French Senate has voted for outlawing the headscarf for minors in public. A bid by the French Senate to ban girls under 18 from wearing the hijab in public has drawn condemnation, with the hashtag #HandsOffMyHijab circulating widely on social media. The hijab is a headscarf worn […]
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