Google recently banned more than a dozen Android apps from its Play Store, including Muslim prayer apps with 10 million-plus downloads. Researchers discovered secret data-harvesting code hidden within the apps. That code was engineered by a company linked to a Virginia defense contractor. The company had paid developers to incorporate its cod...
The new Museum of Islamic Civilizations will open Friday in Turkey’s largest mosque. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will inaugurate the museum, located in Istanbul’s Grand Camlica Mosque Complex. Built in a closed area of more than 100,000-square-feet, the museum includes works from the collections of the Topkapi Palace and Palace Collections ...
Muslim students in the Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba are frustrated after many schools prevented prayers and other activities during the month of Ramadan. After meeting with secondary school principals, the Addis Abeba City Education Bureau said education should be free from religious activities. Several reports this week showed many schools p...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A new Museum of Islamic Civilizations is set to be inaugurated on Friday in Turkiye’s largest mosque by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the nation’s president. The museum, located in Istanbul’s Grand Camlica Mosque Complex and constructed in a closed area of 10,000 square meters (107,639 square feet), was prepared with works selected fro...
Muslims in Oman found eating in public in the daytime during the month of Ramadan will be jailed and fined. According to the Penal Code, “a Muslim who publicly breaks the fast during the day in Ramadan shall be punished by imprisonment and a fine.” The penalties are for breaking the fast “without a legitimate […]
Leaders at Buffalo Public Schools in New York are pushing to allow Muslim students to take off from school for their religious holiday. Muslims across the U.S. and globally are now observing Ramadan. The month of fasting ends in early May this year, with the Eid al-Fitr festival, including a big celebration attended by thousands […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – His passion for the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem was always a big part of his life. Palestinian Marwan Nashashibi, born in Jerusalem in 1934, studied engineering at Haifa University. After graduation, he joined the Jordanian army’s engineering corps until Israeli forces occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Midd...
Sotheby’s auction house recently sold a page from a 14th century copy of the Quran. Many archaeological artifacts were sold in the auction titled “Art of the Islamic World & India Including Luxurious Carpets.” The large page of the Quran, written in the Muhaqqaq script on pink paper, dates back to the Mamluk era in […]
This is Islamic Foundation in Villa Park, Illinois where on Friday evening, Muslims gathered for the start of special nightly prayers, called taraweeh, for Ramadan. Some Muslims made a point of offering taraweeh prayers at Time Square in New York City. There are roughly 3,000 mosques in the U.S. serving about 4 million Muslims. Indonesia [&hel...
Eight local churches in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania have pitched in to prepare a home for Afghan refugees. The family of 10 Afghan evacuees arrived earlier this year. Church volunteers have been painting, sanding and ripping out old carpeting in the home. Once the family arrived, volunteers drove members to medical appointments, helped the child...
