Asia

The number of Muslims living in Japan, though small, has nearly doubled in the past decade, from 110,000 in 2010 to 185,000 at the end of 2019 (including as many as 50,000 Japanese converts), according to Tanada Hirofumi of Waseda…

International human rights organizations have condemned the arbitrary practices of the Chinese government towards the members of the Muslim Uyghur minority, which amounted to forced sterilization of women and men, with the aim of completely eliminating their offspring.  The organizations…

Shia Tunisians celebrated the birth of the Noble Prophet (peace be upon him and his progeny) and his grandson Imam Jafar al-Sadiq (peace be upon him), expressing their happiness on the blessed occasion. A large gathering of Shia Muslims in…

Ahead of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CCP), where President Xi Jinping is expected to be confirmed as CCP General Secretary for a third term, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Hana Young said: “President Xi’s…

A mob of a dozen people killed on Saturday two Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, which houses over a million refugees, police said. According to the Armed Police Battalion, the elite police unit tasked with security in the…

China has intensified a crackdown on Uyghur and Kazakh Muslims with mass arrests and detentions ahead of the national congress of the Chinese Community Party (CCP), says a report. Over the past few weeks, law enforcers in the Ili Kazakh…

A report prepared by the United Nations and the Red Cross concluded on Monday October 10th that entire regions will become unfit for life in the coming decades due to increasing heat waves. This year’s heat wave poses threats to…

Several government agencies on Monday October 10th backed a bill that seeks to set up burial grounds for Muslims in public cemeteries. Many Muslim Filipinos go through a complicated and costly process in sending the remains of their departed loved…

The Myanmar military committed a horrific crime by killing the Arakanese teacher Shafiq Islam. The killing of Shafiq Islam by Myanmar intelligence caused a wave of sadness and anger among the citizens, who expressed their dissatisfaction with the excessive violence…

More than one million people have been displaced in Myanmar since the military coup last year, the United Nations children’s agency has said. The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s government…