Ontario City Denies Muslim Burial Rites, Prompting Public Vigil and Outcry
IQNA – A grieving family was denied permission for a traditional Muslim burial at a public cemetery in Thorold, Canada’s Ontario, before the service was to begin.
IQNA – A Quran desecration in Plano, US state of Texas has angered people and rights organizations.
14:38 , 2025 Dec 14
IQNA – Plans for an extension at a Blackburn mosque have been granted permission, while councilors will also review—and are recommended to approve—already completed alterations to a secondary entrance of the prominent £5 million mosque funded by the Issa brothers.
11:17 , 2025 Dec 14
IQNA – Citing a pattern of targeting, A US Muslim advocacy group urged prosecutors to pursue hate crime charges against a Virginia man arrested for an anti-Muslim attack on a mosque—the second time the same suspect has faced prosecution for allegedly targeting the Somali-American community center.
14:10 , 2025 Dec 13
IQNA – The move by a Saudi TV channel to censor a part of the Friday prayer sermons at the Grand Mosque in Mecca has been widely criticized by cyberspace users.
16:34 , 2025 Dec 13
IQNA – A new law prohibiting girls under 14 from wearing headscarves in Austrian schools has sparked immediate backlash, with rights groups accusing the government of stigmatizing Muslims and overreaching into personal faith.
21:51 , 2025 Dec 12
IQNA – In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of eight Arab and Muslim nations defended the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as indispensable, while condemning an Israeli military raid on its East Jerusalem al-Quds headquarters.
08:54 , 2025 Dec 13
IQNA – North South University in Bangladesh recently inaugurated its first Quran Conference and Seerah Exhibition, drawing the campus community together at the NSU Plaza.
08:15 , 2025 Dec 13
IQNA – In response to hateful graffiti, Volunteers and neighbors in Norfolk, US state of Virginia, gathered with paint rollers to restore the Masjid ash Shura mosque, as police ask for the public’s help in identifying the vandal.
09:14 , 2025 Dec 12
IQNA – Spain’s public broadcaster chief José Pablo López censured Eurovision contest director for a fan letter that made no mention of Gaza or Israel, calling it a failure during a major reputational crisis for the organizers.
16:03 , 2025 Dec 12
IQNA – Unidentified individuals defaced two mosques in Hannover, Germany, spraying the acronym for the Israeli regime's military on their walls in what officials described Wednesday as a provocative act aimed at religious communities.
11:32 , 2025 Dec 11
IQNA – A displaced baby girl died in a flooded tent amid severe winter conditions in Gaza, while a separate Israeli attack killed a woman in Jabalia overnight, highlighting the dire humanitarian and security crisis.
16:11 , 2025 Dec 11
IQNA – Some news reports indicate that Sheikh Badreddin Hassoun, the former Mufti of Syria during the rule of Bashar al-Assad, has been given a death sentence.
12:59 , 2025 Dec 11
