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The UAE is taking the metaverse to another level, releasing the initial metaverse hospital to offer medical tourism services. The metaverse hospital will be managed by the Thumbay Group, a healthcare provider which has now started working on the project.…

Muslims living in Israel had to travel indirectly to Saudi Arabia in order to travel to the Land of Revelation and attend the Hajj ceremonies, because there is no direct flight from Israel to Saudi Arabia, but now the Israeli…

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Program said in a report…

At an Islamic boarding school in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Indonesian city Yogyakarta, the sound of Quranic recitation is nowhere to be heard. This is a religious school for deaf children, and here the students gesture rapidly…

In a joint statement, dozens of human rights organizations called on Western countries allied with the UAE to pressure the Abu Dhabi authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all those convicted in the mass trial of members of the so-called…

A number of Muslim organizations based in Malaysia have initiated a campaign to combat Islamophobia in the world. The Malaysia Consultative Council of Islamic Organizations, Alliance of World Masjid in Defense of Islam, and Secretariat for Ulama Assembly of Asia,…

Classified speeches given by high-ranking Chinese Communist Party officials describe Uyghurs and other Muslims as an “enemy class” whose traditions must be wiped away for China to survive, startling new evidence of the coordinated brutality authorities have deployed to force…

A Uyghur student is set to go on trial for “separatism” in the city of Urumqi on Tuesday in what appears to be the latest example of the Chinese government’s strategy to unlawfully imprison Muslims in the country’s Xinjiang region,…

The Indonesian research website, Kilas Klaten, cited, through a special report, some of the most prominent local traditions that Muslims have lived in his country throughout history. In defining these traditions, the site said, “It represents a habit or a…

The United States is rallying allies against forced labor in China’s Xinjiang as it begins implementing a law that bans goods from a region where Washington says Beijing is committing genocide against Uighurs and other Muslim groups. US Customs and…