Sun 30 May 2021: Pope Francis on Sunday announced that he will hold a meeting with leaders of the Christian communities of Lebanon in the Vatican on July 1 to pray for peace in the middle Eastern state. “On July 1, I will meet in the Vatican with the main representatives of the Christian communities […]
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Sun 30 May 2021: The Turkish president on Saturday shared a message celebrating the 568th anniversary of the conquest of Istanbul. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “I congratulate the 568th anniversary of the Conquest of Istanbul, one of the most glorious victories of our history,” on Twitter. He reminded of the Prophet Muhammad’s saying regarding […]
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Fri 28 May 2021: Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) will establish an Islamophobia monitoring unit for all its subscribers in the upcoming period, said the agency’s director-general on Tuesday. “Anadolu Agency’s international outreach will be strengthened in the new period, and our most important primary issue will be the fight against Islamophobia,” AA’s Chairperson of […]
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Wed 26 May 2021: An independent inquiry on Tuesday found that the UK’s ruling Conservative Party is insensitive to Muslim communities across the country following Islamophobic remarks by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other party members. The Singh Investigation, launched in 2019 by Johnson, was set up following allegations of ant-Muslim discrimination by members of […]
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Tue 25 May 2021: Countries exposed to Islamophobia should establish a strong communication network in the international arena, the Turkish president said on Tuesday. “Efforts to prevent Islamophobia, which play an important role in peace and security of the whole humanity, should be carried out through common sense mechanisms that will be set up,” Recep […]
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Mon 24 May 2021: The first International Media and Islamophobia Symposium is set to begin in the Turkish capital Ankara on Tuesday. The two-day event will be held at the ATO Congresium, an international convention and exhibition center. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to attend the opening ceremony. The symposium is being organized […]
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Wed 19 May 2021: The administration in India’s Uttar Pradesh state has defied a state high court order and bulldozed a historic mosque. This is one of the most inflammatory actions taken against a Muslim place of worship since demolition of the Babri Mosque by Hindu extremists in 1992. The mosque, called Waqf Masjid Gareeb […]
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Mon 17 May 2021: Pope Francis met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in the Vatican on Monday, the Holy See said. Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See Press Office, confirmed that the meeting took place at around 9:00 a.m. (07:00 GMT). The Vatican, however, did not disclose any details about the […]
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Thu 13 May 2021: Ethiopian Muslims on Tuesday rolled 30,000 meters of plastic sheet to host 100,000 people to break the fast on the streets of capital Addis Ababa, breaking the world record. The gathering was also organized to show defiance to Egypt’s stance against the building of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). “There […]
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Tue 11 May 2021: Himmet Büke, an associate professor in the Turkish literature department at Turkey’s Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, found a copy of the great Turkish thinker and poet Yunus Emre’s “Divan” while searching the archives of Turkish works in the digital collection of the Vatican Library. The cover of the recently discovered copy of […]
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