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Azerbaijan has closed a mosque linked to Iran’s supreme leader, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported Tuesday, days after Tehran launched war games near their shared border in a move denounced by Baku. “The mosque and representative office…
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A Saudi family in the city of Taif decided to pardon the murderer of their son without payment, on the condition that the offender build a mosque in the city in the name of the victim. According to the newspaper, "Okaz", the court in the…
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday that New Zealand’s Muslim community should be the focus of any film about the Christchurch mosque attacks after some people raised objections to a movie focussing on her response to the…
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Fear has gripped the Muslim community in northern India after a local administration defied a court order and razed a century-old mosque in Uttar Pradesh. The demolition of the 112-year-old mosque in the town of Ram Sanehi Ghat in the…
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A Houthi religious leader shot dead a cardiologist and his brother and wounded several others for denouncing his sermons at a mosque in the southern Yemeni province of Taiz, residents and officials reported on Monday. Abdul Basit…
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Turkish authorities forcibly removed followers of an Islamist figure from three mosques in southern Turkey, saying their prayer gatherings were a provocation against COVID-19 lockdown restrictions. Footage showed police scuffling with a…
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Saudi Arabia will start constructing a mosque named after King Salman bin Abdul Aziz at the new campus of the International Islamic University (IIU) in Pakistan’s capital city, Islamabad, “very soon,” the institute’s rector said Saturday.…
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Muslims have begun fasting on the first day of Ramadan, as mosques in England prepare to welcome worshippers in smaller groups due to Covid restrictions. Much like last year, Ramadan will be drastically different from usual for Muslims,…
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Plans by the British Muslim brothers who own supermarket chain Asda to build a “landmark” mosque in north west England have been approved. The £5 million ($6.9 million) project to build a mosque in Blackburn by the billionaire siblings…
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was informed of the stages of building a mosque in the Crimea and promised those in charge of it to visit soon. Today, Thursday, Putin spoke with representatives of the Crimea and Sevastopol via the video…
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