Source: San Antonio Express News By John MacCormack Photo: Evan Lewis /Associated Press Marq Vincent Perez, who is accused of intentionally setting a fire that destroyed a mosque in Victoria, is […]
Source: Huffington POST VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s right-wing government plans to shut seven mosques and could expel dozens of imams in what it said was “just the beginning” of a […]
Source; Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Grieving family members joined community leaders Tuesday for a moment of silence to remember a man who died and a dozen others who were […]
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter and Amr El Tohamy CAIRO (RNS) – The Egyptian government has banned preaching at 20,000 mosques as a precautionary measure to prevent extremist […]
Source: Associated Press By IBRAHIM ABDUL’AZIZ YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — A pair of explosions killed at least 28 worshippers at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria and wounded at least 56 […]
Source: Reuters PARIS/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates will finance a $50.4 million project to rebuild Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, famous for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, that was blown up by Islamic State militants last year, the United Nations said on Monday. The destroyed Grand al-Nuri Mosque is […]
Source: Associated Press By IGNATIUS SSUUNA KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda’s government has closed thousands of churches and dozens of mosques as it seeks to assert more control over a […]
Source: Associated Press By MICHAEL TARM and AMY FORLITI CHICAGO (AP) — Federal authorities on Tuesday charged three men from rural central Illinois with the bombing of a Minnesota mosque […]
Source: BBC News Rwanda has banned mosques in the capital, Kigali, from using loudspeakers during the call to prayer. They say the calls, made five times a day, have been […]
Source: The Washington Post By Annie Gowen AYODHYA, India — The mob of Hindu fundamentalists brought down the mosque in just a few hours, using pickaxes, rope and their bloody, bare hands. […]
Source: Forum18 By Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 Tajikistan has claimed to have closed almost 2,000 mosques in 2017. Officials claimed they were closed at the request of local residents, but […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Huddersfield South held its Mosque Open Day on Sunday 18th February at Baitus Samad Mosque. By the grace of Allah over 25 guests attended the open day. Some of the Key members were Chief Superintendent of West Yorkshire Police, Steve Cotter, representation of the fire service as […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Birnbaum November 28 BRUSSELS — A Belgian court announced Tuesday that it had struck down an effort to deport an imam at Belgium’s oldest mosque, saying that […]
Source: THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER* Mark Curnutte, mcurnutte@enquirer.com A local mosque is donating $1 million to the University of Cincinnati to increase understanding of the Islamic religion amid concerns about Islamophobia. UC is adding […]
Source: BBC News Militants have launched a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai province, killing 235 people, state media say. The al-Rawda mosque in the […]
Report by Muhammad Ahmad Big Beaver Methodist Church (BBUMC) Children Group Visits Masjid Mahmood Detroit Wednesday, November 8, 2017 “Islam is the religion of peace and tolerance”, said Imam Shamshad Nasir, the newly arrived Missionary in Detroit area of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community at Rochester Hills Michigan. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community […]
Source: Magic Valley TWIN FALLS — Police say someone draped a cross in butchered pig parts and left it at the Islamic Center of Twin Falls over the weekend. Authorities […]
Source: The Guardian BY Saeed Kamali Dehghan Iran correspondent When the Tehran authorities commissioned the construction of a mosque near the City theatre – one of Iranian capital’s most distinctive buildings – it was […]
Source: Associated Press By CURT ANDERSON MIAMI (AP) — Prosecutors secured a relatively rare federal hate crime conviction punishable by a tough sentence on Thursday as a Florida man pleaded guilty to leaving a voicemail that threatened to shoot people at a mosque. Legal experts and Islamic advocates said it […]
Source: Star Tribune By By Miguel Otárola Star Tribune Leaders of an Islamic center in Bloomington remain concerned about their safety and desperate for justice, more than two months after an explosion destroyed […]