Fri 09 April 2021: Tunisia’s Ministry of Religious Affairs announced on Thursday that citizens are allowed to perform prayers in mosques, including the Friday prayer, outside of curfew hours. This came in a statement issued by the ministry one day after the authorities decided to tighten curfew measures in Tunisia due to a surge in coronavirus infection […]
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Thu 08 April 2021: Saudi Arabia’s General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque has decided to increase the capacity of the Grand Mosque in Mecca to 50,000 Umrah performers and 100,000 worshippers per day during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan for those who are vaccinated, the Saudi Press […]
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Thu 08 April 2021: France’s Senate approved the addition of a ban on religious practices in university corridors to a controversial bill to fight “Islamist separatism” late Wednesday. Discussing the draft bill, which has been criticized for alienating Muslims, the center-right Republicans (LR) party proposed adding a clause prohibiting prayers in university corridors as well […]
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Wed 07 April 2021: England cricketers like Jofra Archer and Sam Billings have come to Moeen Ali’s defence after he was targeted by Taslima Nasreen in a widely-condemned tweet in which she wrote: “If Moeen Ali were not stuck with cricket, he would have gone to Syria to join ISIS”. Taslima Nasreen later deleted that post and […]
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Tue 06 April 2021: An adviser who has been appointed to investigate anti-Muslim sentiments and other forms of prejudice within the British Conservative Party has called for the idea of Islamophobia to be “junked,” a new report by the Middle East Eye (MEE) said Thursday. According to the report a Ph.D. student at King’s College […]
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Tue 06 April 2021: Saudi authorities said Monday only people immunised against Covid-19 will be allowed to perform the year-round umrah pilgrimage from the start of Ramadan, the holy fasting month for Muslims. The hajj and umrah ministry said in a statement that three categories of people would be considered “immunised” — those who have […]
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Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IBB) bought nine Quran copies and manuscripts sold at Sotheby’s auction house in London. The purchase price of the works was not announced at the auction, where a rare 16th-century portrait of Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I, who was the longest-reigning Ottoman sultan who served between 1520 and 1566, was also sold. A manuscript […]
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Sun 04 April 2021: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in an Easter message on Sunday that the country is going to see “brighter days ahead” after a “very tough” pandemic year. This Sunday, Anglicans and Catholics celebrate Easter. Though churches are open, many Christians will not be able to mark their most important festival […]
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Sun 04 April 2021: Police in India registered two cases on Saturday against a Hindu priest for blasphemous remarks against the holy prophet of Islam. The cases, one in Mumbai and another in New Delhi, were registered against Dasna Devi Temple head priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati after video of a news conference at the Press […]
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Sun 04 April 2021: The Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum (ICYF) is organizing the “Young Muslim Women’s Summit” that will welcome successful Muslim women from around the world between April 6 to April 8. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will also attend the opening ceremony of the online conference. The summit, which works with more than […]
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