TEHRAN (IQNA) – Rajab Rama, a 48-year-old businessman in Kenya, was left disappointed after learning he would miss the chance to go for Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which is mandatory to perform at least once in a lifetime.
News ID: 3475010 Publish Date : 2021/06/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A solidarity rally was held at the mosque on Logy Bay Road in St. John’s Friday with many calling out racism in Canadian communities.
News ID: 3474987 Publish Date : 2021/06/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Germany has launched a state-backed training center for imams to help reduce the number of preachers coming in from abroad, but the initiative has been shunned by leading Turkish groups.
News ID: 3474965 Publish Date : 2021/06/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A court in India granted bail to three young activists arrested under a stringent terror law in connection with the deadly anti-Muslim riots that erupted in the capital New Delhi last year.
News ID: 3474951 Publish Date : 2021/06/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Although nearly a quarter of the world’s population is Muslim, their representation in key cinema markets is poor and their roles are often distorted in dangerous and insulting ways, according to a groundbreaking new study.
News ID: 3474944 Publish Date : 2021/06/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) –A producer for a controversial Hollywood film depicting Jacinda Ardern’s response to the Christchurch terror attacks has resigned from the project after criticisms that it sidelined Muslim victims.
News ID: 3474938 Publish Date : 2021/06/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia announced Saturday it will allow 60,000 residents vaccinated against COVID-19 to perform this year's Hajj, but Muslims from abroad will be barred for a second straight year.
News ID: 3474937 Publish Date : 2021/06/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Provincial police in Ontario have launched an investigation after a video was posted to TikTok which included disturbing references to the recent murder of a Muslim family in London, Ont.
News ID: 3474934 Publish Date : 2021/06/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – It was something the Muslim community in Winnipeg, the Canadian province of Manitoba, hoped it would never have to do again.
News ID: 3474928 Publish Date : 2021/06/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A vigil is scheduled for tonight at the mosque of five family members who police say were intentionally struck down by a driver in London, Canada’s Ontario.
News ID: 3474921 Publish Date : 2021/06/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The US Supreme Court agreed to hear a long-running case stemming from surveillance of Southern California mosques by the FBI as part of a counterterrorism operation more than a decade ago.
News ID: 3474915 Publish Date : 2021/06/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The number of mosques in the United States continues to grow at a steady pace, a report said, identifying 2,769 mosques in the country in 2020.
News ID: 3474896 Publish Date : 2021/06/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A professor of film studies said Hollywood movies cannot be considered propaganda against Muslims or other groups, but acknowledged that there are very negative and damaging stereotypes of Muslims in those movies.
News ID: 3474868 Publish Date : 2021/06/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Turkey's foreign minister was scheduled to meet the Greek prime minister and foreign minister on Monday, a day after raising tension in Athens with comments on the country's Muslim minority.
News ID: 3474852 Publish Date : 2021/05/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A leading Muslim group in Austria plans to file a lawsuit against the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for unveiling a controversial “Islam map”.
News ID: 3474836 Publish Date : 2021/05/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The next generation of British Muslims could lose out on as much as $18 billion over the course of their lives because of workplace discrimination that prevents Muslims from taking advantage of government-backed pension schemes.
News ID: 3474807 Publish Date : 2021/05/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Turkey's Religious Affairs Director Ali Erbas described Islamophobia is a crime against humanity and an abdication of reason.
News ID: 3474801 Publish Date : 2021/05/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – New York City police are searching for the person who vandalized a mosque in Brooklyn with anti-Palestinian graffiti on one of the holiest days in the Muslim faith.
News ID: 3474719 Publish Date : 2021/05/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Muslim community in Seychelles for the second straight year celebrated the religious holiday of Eid al-Fitr at home with family instead of in larger community gatherings or with a traditional congregational prayer in accordance with the COVID-19 measures in place in the island nation.
News ID: 3474710 Publish Date : 2021/05/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – As Ramadan nears its end, Muslims around the world try to make the best of the final days of the holy month and prepare for celebrating Eid al-Fitr.
News ID: 3474683 Publish Date : 2021/05/11