Sun 07 February 2021: Pope Francis has broken with Catholic tradition to appoint a woman as an undersecretary of the synod of bishops, the first to hold the post with voting rights in a body that studies major questions of doctrine. Frenchwoman Nathalie Becquart is one of the two new undersecretaries named Saturday to the […]
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Sun 07 February 2021: A 60-year-old American woman has become Muslim after being influenced by Resurrection: Ertugrul, a popular Turkish TV series. The Wisconsin resident chose the name of “Khadija” after her conversion to Islam and told Anadolu Agency that she came across Resurrection: Ertugrul while browsing Netflix. “I looked into it, the details about […]
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Sun 07 February 2021: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Saturday that Western countries insist on not taking measures against growing anti-Islam sentiment. “Muslims are being taken under pressure with projects such as European Islam, French Islam, Austrian Islam,” Erdoğan said. The president noted that attacks on Muslims’ sacred values have been disregarded by Western […]
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Fri 05 February 2021: Activists in Indonesia have lauded the government’s decision to ban public schools from making religious attire mandatory, a move that followed national outrage over non-Muslim students being forced to wear a hijab. Andreas Harsono, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, said schools in more than 20 provinces still make religious attire […]
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Fri 05 February 2021: Germany’s Catholic Church covered up the sexual abuse of orphaned children for decades, a new confidential report has revealed. Nuns in the western city of Speyer sold orphaned children to priests and businessmen to serve as sex slaves between the 1960s and 1970s, but the scandal was covered up by the […]
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Mon 01 February 2021: The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has awarded Sheikh Raed Salah its 2020 Al-Murabit Prize, Al-Quds Al-Araby reported on Sunday. Veteran Palestinian campaigner Sheikh Salah is currently held in prison by the Israeli authorities. The Secretary-General of the IUMS, Professor Sheikh Ali Al-Qaradaghi, hailed Sheikh Salah and his role as a defender of Al-Aqsa […]
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Tue 02 February 2021: Turkey will report annually on acts of Islamophobia and racism in other countries, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday. Speaking at the AK Party’s 7th Congress in Antalya province, Cavusoglu said that until today, the EU and US publish reports on Turkey and other countries, but from now on, Turkey will […]
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Sat 30 January 2021: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen today proposed a ban on Muslim headscarves in all public places, seeking to build on a record recent poll putting her almost neck-and-neck with President Emmanuel Macron. The hijab policy, which would be contested in court and would almost certainly be ruled unconstitutional, saw the 53-year-old […]
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Wed 27 January 2021: The world should step up to say “stop” to Islamophobia and xenophobia which have multiplied in recent years through the use of digital platforms, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. His remarks came in a video message released on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “The International community […]
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Sun 24 January 2021: A special commission in the French National Assembly approved the “charter of republican values” which was announced earlier by the nation’s president as the fight against Islamist separatism. The bill was introduced Oct. 2 by Emmanuel Macron to fight so-called “Islamist separatism.” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Twitter that the […]
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