Wed 30 December 2020: The world’s first virtual halal fair, E-Halal Expo, ended on Wednesday after it was earlier extended by a week due to high demand. The event offered a wide platform for visitors, traders, buyers, halal sector pioneers and investors from all over the world to promote their work, products and services. Its […]
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Sun 27 December 2020: NEW DELHI — Some three dozen Muslim men have been arrested across Uttar Pradesh in the last one month under the controversial anti-conversion law promulgated on November 27 to curb the so-called ‘love jihad’, an Islamophobic conspiracy theory alleging that Muslim men target women belonging to non-Muslim communities for conversion to Islam by feigning love. According to media reports, […]
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Thu 24 December 2020: Pope Francis promised in his Christmas messages on Thursday to visit Lebanon and South Sudan as soon as he could. The pope traditionally mentions countries in his Christmas Day message, but he singled out those two nations with Christmas Eve messages because of difficulties each has faced this year. “I am […]
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Thu 24 December 2020: Experts say that concerns about religious permissibility, speed of development as well as conspiracy theories need to be contextualised and taken seriously. Hundreds of hospitals in the US began their mass vaccination campaign last week after the Pfizer/BioNTech shot was greenlighted by authorities. The UK also started its rollout of the same shot earlier this […]
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Wed 23 December 2020: Saudi Arabia’s Islamic affairs minister confirmed that many imams were fired in recent weeks after failing to follow a ministry directive to warn citizens against the Muslim Brotherhood and its ideology. Saudi minister of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance Abdullatif bin Abdulaziz al-Sheikh told Al Arabiya on Tuesday that the ministry […]
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Tue 22 December 2020: Turkey and Indonesia should work together to support the Muslim community against Islamophobia and discrimination, according to Turkey’s foreign minister on Tuesday. “We should support the [Muslim] community by working together with Indonesia and fight against these,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told a press conference alongside Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta. Cavusoglu […]
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Tue 22 December 2020: The World Halal Summit, the world’s largest halal event that aims to bring to light the latest developments and updates related to the over $4 trillion-halal market, with international academicians and fiqh experts started Monday with the participation of industry players and investors from all over the globe. Speaking during the […]
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Mon 21 December 2020: Despite Poland being over 90 percent Catholic, a survey published on Thursday suggested that approximately 41 percent of Poles view the Church favorably. This is a decrease of 8 percent from September, according to The Straits Times Europe and a survey by the CBOS institute, quoted by the Polish news agency PAP. Meanwhile, 47 […]
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Fri 18 December 2020: Followers of Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi perform Sema dance on 747th anniversary without audience due to pandemic Turkey’s whirling dervishes, followers of the 13th-century Islamic scholar, poet, and Sufi mystic, Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi, performed their Sema dance on Thursday to mark the 747th anniversary of his passing without any audience this year […]
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Fri 18 December 2020: A special envoy of Pope Francis met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday in Minsk to express the pontiff’s concerns about the country. Monsignor Claudio Gugerotti, former Vatican ambassador to Belarus, was to convey “the concern and worries of the Holy Father for the current situation,” Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni said […]
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