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According to Realnoe Vremya online newspaper, the Tatarstan Ministry of Culture started to look for a developer of a website dedicated to the 1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by Volga Bulgaria — the jubilee is celebrated this year.…

In Bangladesh, thousands of Rohingya Muslims have staged protests in refugee camps to mark five years since Burmese soldiers began a campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide against their community. The U.N. reports as many as 10,000 Rohingya were killed…

On the fifth anniversary of the displacement of the Muslim Rohingya minority and their forced displacement from their homes in Myanmar, today about 140,000 people live in the camps to which they were taken on the border with Bangladesh, where…

The UN children’s agency on Monday, August 22, said that nearly 1,000 children were either killed or injured in Ukraine since Russia launched its war in late February. This represents an average of more than five a day, according to…

 The Jiezi Mosque in Xunhua Salar Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China’s Qinghai Province preserves the oldest manuscript of the Holy Quran found in China so far, which is considered one of the oldest Quran manuscripts in the world as well.…

Minorities in China’s Xinjiang region are forced to work against their will and face physical and sexual violence and “other inhuman or degrading treatment” in what may constitute a modern form of slavery, a report released on Tuesday by a…

United Nations rights chief Michelle Bachelet arrived in Bangladesh Sunday for a four-day visit that will include a trip to squalid camps housing nearly a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. The exodus of Rohingya was sparked by a 2017 Myanmar…

The largest mosque in Central Asia has opened in Kazakhstan’s capital, Nur-Sultan.   Several high-ranking figures attended the mosque-opening ceremony. The mosque spans an area of almost ten hectares, and is topped by a 90-meter central dome and eight smaller domes. …

The Bangladeshi online newspaper, Barta24, reported the launch of the special mourning ceremonies for the holy month of Muharram and the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, at the eternal battle of Karbala.  The newspaper said in a…

 For the first time, a mourning ceremony for Imam Hussein (peace be upon him) was officially held in Qatar. Photos published by Husseiniyat al-Rasool al-A’dham in Doha, the capital of Qatar, indicate that for the first time, a Husseini mourning…