The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has issued its latest report about religious freedom in the United States, and the results are less than stellar. This report is published every year on May 1 and has been since 1999, reported World Religion News.
This year marks 20 years since the…
The Saatchi Gallery in London was founded by the advertising magnate Charles Saatchi. Photograph: Greg Balfour Evans/Alamy
A leading contemporary art gallery covered up works featuring an Islamic declaration of faith after complaints from Muslim visitors who said the artworks were blasphemous, reportd The Guardian .
The Saatchi Gallery in…
Krak des Chevaliers, Syria.
Photographs by Peter Aaron
A Traveller’s Record of Syrian Monuments Before the War
By John Gendall
The New Yorker
In April, 2009, Peter Aaron, a veteran architectural photographer, went on vacation with his family, to Syria. It was about one year into President Obama’s first term, long before the name isis was…
Фото: islam.in.ua
Саид Исмагилов, мусульманський духовний лідер України, шейх, муфтій у Духовнo м y управліннi мусульман України “Умма” зробив заяву з приводу відкриття соборної мечеті в Криму:
“Всі мусульманські засоби масової інформації тиражують вчорашню заяву Путіна, стосовно відкриття нової Соборної мечеті, що будується в окупованому Криму.
Хто не в темі, вчора на…
Sara Saboori Raad , Professor’s Assistance at University of Iran
I would say hijab is more “natural” than cultural or religious. It means it sounds to be in the natural instincts of people, specially women.
Looking back in the history, not only we see that hijab existed in many religions like Islam,…
Islamic Holy Place
More two million Muslims journey to holy city Mecca from across the world every year.
A sea of umbrellas as hundreds of thousands listen to the sermon at Namirah Mosque, which was built on the location the Prophet Mohammed set up camp during his Hajj in 632 CE.…
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Israel prohibited the Muslim call to prayer 298 times in the first half of this year at a historical mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, reported muslimnews .
“Occupying Israeli forces prohibited the Azan, including calls to Friday prayer, at the Ibrahimi Mosque 298…
Photo: Mosque of the Olten Turkish cultural association at Wangen bei Olten. By Nadf/Public Domain
The Upper House of Switzerland rejected a bill prohibiting foreign funding to mosques affiliated with the Swiss Turkish Religious Foundation, reported The Muslim News
The motion had been put forward by Lorenzo Quadri, a senator for the right-wing…
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Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned the killing of Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border, saying the deaths would only lead to more violence, and appealed for dialogue to bring justice and peace to the Middle East, reported Reuters .
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“I express my great pain for the dead and wounded and I am…