Sat 03 April 2021: Five groups linked to Hindu nationalist organisations in India received direct payments and loans in federal relief fund. Washington, DC, United States – Five organisations with ties to Hindu supremacist and religious groups have received COVID-19 relief funding amounting to $833,000, according to data released by the United States’ Small Business Administration […]
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Sat 03 April 2021: Turkey’s top religious body said Friday that taking the COVID-19 jab will not break the Ramadan fast. Ahead of the Muslim holy month, Idris Bozkurt, a top official of the Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), told Anadolu Agency: “There is no nutritious vitamin or food substance in any vaccine, including the […]
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Wed 31 March 2021: While the French Senate prepares to discuss a so-called “anti-separatism” bill, human rights group Amnesty International has intervened at the last minute in an attempt to cancel or change “many problematic provisions” of the draft bill. The debate in the French Senate on Tuesday comes after the French lower house National Assembly, […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: The United States remains a religious nation but it is experiencing the lowest level of religious membership in eight decades as fewer than 47 percent of its residents regularly attend an institution of worship, a new Gallup poll revealed on Monday. The survey showed 47 percent Americans belonged to a church, […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: Indonesian police arrested 13 suspects in a sprawling probe into the suicide attack on the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province, Antara news agency reported on Monday, citing police. Arrests took place in the provinces of Jakarta, South Sulawesi, West Java and West Nusa […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: The Nizamuddin Markaz building of Tablighi Jamaat hosted a small gathering of 50 people on the eve of Shab-e-Barat on Sunday. This was the first time since March 28 last year that a gathering has been allowed inside the premises. A policeman guarded the gate of the building and checked the […]
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Mon 29 March 2021: With experts warning about a looming third wave of COVID-19 infections in South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa has encouraged faith communities to be innovative when they hold the upcoming Easter, Passover and Ramadan services. He urged congregational worship to be innovative as it was last year. “Large gatherings, whether religious or […]
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Sun 28 March 2021: Muslim majority Indonesia on Friday banned an annual exodus that sees millions travel across the vast nation to mark the end of Ramadan over fears of a surge in Covid-19 infections. Travellers pack into airports, train stations and ports across the nearly 5,000 kilometre (3,100 mile) long archipelago in a mass migration, known as Mudik, […]
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Sun 28 March 2021: Al-Azhar, the highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world, has condemned the display of caricature insulting the Prophet Muhammad in Britain. In a statement, the Cairo-based institution’s Observatory for Combating Extremism described the caricatures as a “disgraceful act” which amounts to “hate speech”. “This is an unjustified provocation of […]
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Sat 27 March 2021: English comedian and actor Ricky Gervais has joined the row over a UK schoolteacher who this week showed his class a controversial caricature of the Prophet Muhammad, which sparked an outrage among the local Muslim community. Parents complained that the controversial image, which children at the Batley Grammer School in West Yorkshire were […]
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