Sun 07 March 2021: Switzerland is voting on Sunday on whether to ban “full facial coverings” in public places. The vote comes after years of debate, following similar bans in other European countries, such as France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Some sections of Swiss society have termed the referendum as Islamophobic. Red billboards picturing a scowling woman wearing […]
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Sat 06 March 2021: Pope Francis held a historic meeting today with Iraq’s top Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani in the southern Najaf city. The meeting came as part of the pontiff’s current visit to Iraq, which started on Friday. According to an Anadolu Agency reporter, the meeting, which took place at Sistani’s office in Najaf, focused […]
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Fri 05 March 2021: Pope Francis has called for an end to “violence and extremism” in his opening address on the first-ever papal visit to Iraq, long scarred by war and now gripped by the coronavirus pandemic. The state-run Al-Iraqiya TV broadcast live the landing of his plane. He was received at the Baghdad International […]
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Fri 05 March 2021: Some states have responded to horrific acts purportedly carried out in the name of Islam by adopting measures that disproportionately target Muslims, the leading UN expert on freedom of religion said today. In a report to the UN Human Rights Council, Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion […]
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Fri 05 March 2021: The Delhi High Court Friday granted time to the centre, AAP government and the police to respond to a plea seeking reopening of the Nizamuddin Markaz which has been locked since March 31 last year after several people who attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation there contracted COVID-19. Justice Mukta Gupta said […]
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Fri 05 March 2021: Pope Francis departs Rome for Baghdad this morning. In the Iraqi capital he will be welcomed by President Barham Salih and meet with political leaders and diplomats. He will visit Baghdad’s Syro-Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Salvation to meet with Christian leaders. Later, he will be welcomed by Iraqi President […]
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Thu 04 March 2021: rench laws prevent the state from closing down mosques, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in a statement late Wednesday in response to a question about mosques with alleged links to terrorist groups. “The laws of the Republic do not let us close down these houses of worship,” he said. The minister […]
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Thu 04 March 2021: Home Affairs Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, says the names of the Home Affairs officials, who helped the Bushiris with their travel documents, are known by the department. Responding to oral questions during a hybrid sitting of the National Assembly on Wednesday, Motsoaledi said the identities of the officials will, however, not […]
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Thu 04 March 2021: New Zealand police say they have arrested two people following a threat made online to the Linwood Islamic centre and Al Noor mosque, the sites of the two Christchurch shootings in 2019. No information about the nature of the threat was supplied and neither suspect has been named. No charges have […]
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Tue 02 March 2021: Saudi Arabia has announced that Muslims wanting to visit Makkah for the annual Hajj pilgrimage will need to provide proof that they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19, Saudi Okaz newspaper reports. “Vaccination would be the main condition for participation,” Health Minister Tawfiq Al Rabiah is reported to have said. His ministry did not […]
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