Two separate attacks in southwestern provinces of Lot-et-Garonne, Toulouse target Muslims. ANKARA (AA) – Islamophobic attacks continue across France with two separate incidents reported last week. A Muslim butcher and grocery store that sells halal products in the southwestern province of Lot-et-Garonne was targeted on Sunday night. Setting th...
The opposition-held area is in dire need of assistance due to years of conflict and the onset of winter. HATAY, TURKIYE: The UN on Tuesday dispatched 85 truckloads of humanitarian aid to northwestern Syria, an opposition-held area in dire need of assistance due to years of conflict and the onset of winter. The trucks crossed […]
Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani, the senior-most cleric in Iran, served in key constitutional bodies. TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Top Iranian clerk Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani, regarded as the senior-most jurist in the Shia-majority country, passed away early Tuesday at the age of 103. Golpaygani, a formidable figure in Iran’s religious seminary of Qom,...
Save the Children says collapse of health system, driven largely by western countries’ freeze of Afghan foreign exchange, comes at deadly cost for children. KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – Pneumonia cases are soaring in Afghanistan, killing children who are unable to access healthcare facilities, Save the Children, a leading humanitarian organ...
“Midwives,” a film about a Buddhist midwife and her Muslim apprentice, has earned one of the prestigious Sundance Film Festival’s major awards. On Friday, it won the Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Vérité Filmmaking. It features the story of two midwives. Hla, is Buddhist and part of the majority population in Burma. Her apprentice, [&h...
The Islamic Center of Santa Clarita in California hosted an education and job workshop Saturday aimed at helping Afghan refugees who are recent arrivals in the city. Earlier this week, more than 130 refugees from Afghanistan, including men, women and young children were temporarily placed in Santa Clarita after a rushed evacuation. The total n...
Security camera footage at Al-Noor Islamic Community Center in the Canadian city of Waterloo showed a woman on December 28 picking up some snow and drawing crosses on every window she was able to reach. After doing this twice, her messages became hate-fueled attacks on Muslims written with an oily substance that mosque officials have […...
A 22-year-old man accused of killing a British-Bangladeshi imam in East London has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Muzahid Ali, one of three men charged with murdering Mohammed Aqil Mahdi, appeared at Southwark Crown Court Friday and was remanded to custody. The other defendants are Majid Ahmed and Abul Kashem. They did not appear [&helli...
Sarah Abou-Bakr, a graduate student at Montreal’s McGill University, is this year’s recipient of the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec Memorial Award. Abou-Bakr is the Quebec Public Affairs Lead at the National Council of Canadian Muslims. The award honors a student at the university whose work fosters inclusion of Muslims in Quebec and Can...
Somalia’s public education system has been hampered by 30 years of conflict, poverty, weak governance, and climate change, affecting nearly 3 million people. That includes 1.4 million girls, who require assistance to attend school. Somalia was once considered one of the leading countries in the Horn of Africa for quality education, owing to a ...
