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Northern Utah’s growing Shiite Muslim community won a $250,000 boost in its quest to preserve a historic Latter-day Saint chapel-turned-mosque. While Taylorsville’s Alrasool Islamic Center is the happy recipient of a highly competitive grant from National Fund for Sacred Places,…

Following this week’s terrorist attack in Brussels the Spanish far right Vox party has registered a proposal in Congress to suspend the granting of Spanish nationality and residence permits to people from Islamic countries, Euronews reported yesterday. Specifically, the party…

A national Muslim civil rights group said on Thursday that its moving its annual banquet out of a Virginia hotel that received bomb and death threats due to the Palestinians caught in the war. “In recent days, according to the…

A new study, published in the journal of Scientific Reports, has warned that Atlantic hurricanes are now more likely to quickly strengthen from weak storms than during the 1970s and 80s, according to new research published Thursday, which warned of…

An archery club in Birmingham, Crescent Archers has been set up in a bid to get more Muslim women to take part in sports. This news comes as a report published earlier this year by the Muslimah Sports Association (MSA),…

Burkina Faso’s health ministry has declared a dengue fever epidemic amid the deadliest outbreak in years in which more than 200 people have died and new cases are rising sharply. There have been 50,478 suspected cases and 214 deaths of…

A “humanitarian cease-fire” is essential to guarantee “safe” delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday as he addressed a press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry. He urged both parties to respect…

In a joint effort, Azerbaijani ministries and Islamic Development Bank hold an event titled “Development of halal industry ecosystem in Azerbaijan”, Azernews reports. officials emphasized that the halal economy is currently one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and…

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a former UK minister, made a keynote speech at the University of Leeds Thursday evening, referencing polling, policy decisions and the handling of high-profile events as examples of how British Muslims are held to higher standards than…

The Islamic Center at NYU and the Muslim Student Association have raised more than $880,000 in relief funds following an earthquake and flooding in Morocco and Libya last month. Since the disasters, NYU community members have been donating to humanitarian…