TEHRAN (IQNA) – Egypt’s Awqaf Minister Mohamed Mokhtar Guma promised on Sunday to reconsider the decision to suspend Friday prayers if worshipers abide by set precautions to curb the outbreak of COVID-19.
News ID: 3471814 Publish Date : 2020/06/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Egypt has lifted many of the restrictions put in place to fight the coronavirus pandemic, reopening mosques and many other places such as gyms, cafes and theaters.
News ID: 3471797 Publish Date : 2020/06/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Turkey will reopen mosques for prayers with congregation as of Wednesday, said the head of Religious Affairs Directorate on Tuesday.
News ID: 3471768 Publish Date : 2020/06/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An annual event that sees hundreds of mosques across the UK open their doors to the wider community is going virtual due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
News ID: 3471737 Publish Date : 2020/06/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – More mosques and surau (religious places) in Malaysia, particularly in the green zone in the states in the Peninsula, will be opened to enable the public to perform the Friday and obligatory prayers beginning tomorrow.
News ID: 3471736 Publish Date : 2020/06/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Malaysia’s Senator Zulkifli Mohamad called upon Muslims nationwide to increase religious activities in mosques following the various phases of the movement control order (MCO), which required places of worship to be shut temporarily.
News ID: 3471732 Publish Date : 2020/06/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – MPs are braced for a rise in Islamophobia as mosques start to reopen across England, after a rise in racism and conspiracy theories about Muslims and coronavirus.
News ID: 3471715 Publish Date : 2020/06/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Some mosques in Minneapolis and St. Paul in the US state of Minnesota are opening their doors to worshippers for the first time in more than four months.
News ID: 3471686 Publish Date : 2020/06/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – All mosques and religious sites in Malaysia’s Perak state will be reopened for mass prayers starting this Friday (June 12) during the recovery movement control order (MCO).
News ID: 3471655 Publish Date : 2020/06/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – With the Belgium government’s decision to ease coronavirus restrictions as part of normalization, some mosques in the country started to allow prayers with precautionary measures.
News ID: 3471640 Publish Date : 2020/06/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslim leaders in England called for mosques to remain closed despite the government saying places of worship could open for “individual prayer.”
News ID: 3471631 Publish Date : 2020/06/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Kuwait's Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs gave the green light to mosques in some areas to reopen as of Wednesday after almost three months of closure because of the novel coronavirus.
News ID: 3471629 Publish Date : 2020/06/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi authorities have closed down 39 mosques in the Kingdom after coronavirus infections were suspected among worshippers or those in charge of the sites, state-media reported.
News ID: 3471626 Publish Date : 2020/06/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Indonesia’s capital opened mosques on Friday for the first time in nearly three months, as the megacity loosens a partial lockdown despite coronavirus cases mounting in the world’s biggest Muslim majority nation.
News ID: 3471599 Publish Date : 2020/06/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – More than two dozen mosques across New Jersey plan to dedicate their sermons on Friday — their main day of prayer — to speaking out against racism and police brutality, a coalition of groups said.
News ID: 3471598 Publish Date : 2020/06/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Tunisians returned to mosques and cafes on Thursday as the country ended most lockdown restrictions after largely containing the spread of the novel coronavirus for now.
News ID: 3471596 Publish Date : 2020/06/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Indonesian Mosque Council (DMI) on Monday issued circular necessitating mosque management to reopen its gates under the new normal phase in the battle with the coronavirus that the government plans to introduce in the near future.
News ID: 3471582 Publish Date : 2020/06/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Jordan’s Awqaf Ministry has urged local authorities to follow health precautions as mosques reopen.
News ID: 3471575 Publish Date : 2020/06/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An Iranian deputy health minister said all places of worship have been reopened in the country.
News ID: 3471572 Publish Date : 2020/06/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Guidelines for reopening places of worship have started appearing outside of Dubai mosques in the UAE, although no date has been set by the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department (IACAD).
News ID: 3471554 Publish Date : 2020/05/30
