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The United Nations has announced that a quarter of the population of Myanmar faces food insecurity.This came in a press conference held by the Spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Stephane Dujarric, at the permanent headquarters of the…

The veil ban in a number of regions of India and the restrictions on veiled women in public facilities continues and “ignites battle over religious rights”, according to the Wall Street Journal.In a report for the newspaper, writers Philip Wen…

The Economic News said that a large part of Shia Muslims in the Indian city of Lucknow are distancing themselves from the Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party and not voting for them in the current elections, after the ruling party’s crimes…

The suffering of Indian Muslims continues in recent times, especially women, while the hashtag #India_Persecutes_Muslim_Women tops social media platforms, in reference to the recent events facing Muslim women in India.Digital platforms circulated clips in which Hindus attacked Muslim women as…

Social media influencers shared footage of an Indian bank preventing one of its Muslim clients from withdrawing money from her account before removing the veil.In the video, the girl’s father is shown arguing with the bank’s employees, asking them for…

The capital of Kazakhstan, Nur-Sultan, is preparing to host the Seventh World Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions on September 13-14, 2022.This came according to what was announced by the representative of the Nazarbayev Center for the Development…

Maybank Islamic Bhd will be launching its inaugural global thought leadership conference that will enable a global platform and collaboration on the integration of sustainability and Islamic finance within the halal economy.Held in partnership with IslamicMarkets Ltd, the Global Connect…

Angry campaigns spread on social media in India, after announcing the death of a young Muslim man due to torture in a police station.The hashtag #JusticeForZeeshanMalik has topped the social media platforms in India, to demand an investigation into the…

A court in India on Friday sentenced to death 38 people for a series of bomb blasts in 2008 that left more than 50 dead in Gujarat state, which has a history of violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims.It was…

The Eurasia Net website, which specializes in Central Asian news, dealt with the issue of families from Kyrgyzstan who are detained by the hundreds in camps for the displaced in Syria, and whose government has stopped seeking to retrieve them,…