Tue 10 November 2020: The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Prophet’s Mosque has shared photos of the foreign pilgrims who have arrived in Medina and visited the mosque, reported by Youm7.com. They, along the domestic worshippers who regularly visit the mosque, are required to observe the health protocols, such as by wearing masks, […]
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Mon 09 November 2020: French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was in Egypt Sunday where he sought to ease tensions with the Arab world, after uproar surrounding the republication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Le Drian met with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, and Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, […]
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Mon 09 November 2020: A top UN expert has urged countries to repeal laws infringing on minorities’ rights to worship and hold beliefs, singling out Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Russia, and Moldova, among countries of concern. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special investigator on religious freedom, warned in a report seen by the Associated Press on November […]
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Fri 06 November 2020: Saudi authorities have announced bans on names considered to violate Islamic Sharia law. The restrictions come amid Interior Ministry’s Civil Affairs Agency introducing new rules for registering names in the kingdom. According to Gulf News, names such as Abd Rasul (the Slave of the Messenger) will not be registered. The common girls […]
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Fri 06 November 2020: The first Friday prayer was held in the only mosque in Athens amid social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic. The decision to build a mosque in Athens was first made in 2006, with a budget of €887,000 ($1.04 million), but bureaucratic hurdles, protests by far-right groups, and legal challenges stalled […]
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Fri 06 November 2020: Egypt’s minister of higher education has arrested a university professor on charges of contempt of religion. His detention follows the circulation of a video online which captured a debate between Dr Mohamed Mahdaly, a professor of sociology in Alexandria, and several students. The argument is around the Qur’an’s teachings over incest […]
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Thu 05 November 2020: A bank manager was shot dead by its security guard allegedly over blasphemy allegations in Punjab’s Khushab district on Wednesday, police and relatives said. Malik Imran Hanif, the manager of the National Bank of Pakistan branch in Quaidabad tehsil of Khushab, was shifted to a local hospital after he was shot […]
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Thu 05 October 2020: An Indonesian delegation met on Tuesday with a number of Saudi businessmen and investors, asharq al awsat reported on Wednesday. The delegation discuss available investment opportunities in Hajj and Umrah, Joko Asmoro, chairman of the Indonesian Muslim Association for Hajj and Umrah, said that pilgrims from his country would arrive successively […]
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Tue 03 November 2020: Until today, the half-million Muslim faithful in the city had to resort to dingy basements and unsanitary locations to meet and perform prayers, Ibrahim Serif, the elected mufti of Komotini (Gumulcine) in Western Thrace, said Athens’ first mosque since the 19th century finally opened its doors to Muslim worshipers on Monday, […]
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Tue 03 November 2020: A mosque in northern France suffered an Islamophobic attack in which a pig’s head was left in the Muslim house of worship, said mosque officials on Monday. The head was found in the Grand Mosque in the city of Compiegne in Oise, where restoration work is being done, the Turkish-Muslim umbrella […]
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