Saudi Arabia says Ramadan starts on Friday
Saudi Arabia has announced that the holy fasting month of Ramadan will start on Friday, as Muslims around the world face unprecedented restrictions and tight lockdowns to counter coronavirus. it has been decided that Friday is the start of the month of Ramadan," the royal court said on Thursday in a statement cited by the official SPA news agency.
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Friday prayers held at Hagia Sophia for the first time in 86 years
Crowds gathered in Istanbul as the historic Hagia Sophia site opened for Friday prayers for the first time since Turkish authorities ruled it could be converted into a mosque. Clerics in white robes sang from the Koran. Mosaics and frescoes of Jesus and Mary were draped with curtains. The 1,500-year-old Unesco World Heritage site became a museum in 1934
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India on the verge of religious freedom blacklist
India on the verge of religious freedom blacklist
A US government panel has called for India to be put on a religious freedom blacklist over a "drastic" downturn under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, triggering a sharp rebuttal from New Delhi. In an annual report published on Tuesday, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) said India should join the ranks of "countries of particular concern" that would be subject to sanctions if they do not improve
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Coronavirus and Iran
Coronavirus and Iran
In an attempt to contain the virus, the government ordered stores and businesses across Iran to shut down on March 18, days before the two-week Nowruz holidays (Persian New Year). "I've stayed home for the past 45 days, but I've to go back to work starting next week despite all the risks to my health because I can't pay my rent and bills without a salary," an employee said.
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The elderly man who was stabbed in London mosque pardons attacker
Raafat Maglad, the 70-year-old muezzin at the London Central mosque who is in charge of delivering the call to prayers, has announced that he has pardoned the 29-year-old man who attacked him yesterday with a knife in an apparent race-based assault, leaving Maglad hospitalized with a stab wound in his shoulder. Maglad returned to the mosque on Friday to offer prayers amid heightened police vigilance.
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