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Officials of the famous Mecca Mosque in the city of Hyderabad said that they are working on restoring the mosque, which is one of the oldest and largest mosques in India and is also a heritage building located in the…

A Hindu social worker has donated land for the construction of a Madarsa, an Islamic religious school where children belonging to Muslim community pursue their education, in Birtamode municipality-3 of Jhapa, Nepal.Social worker Bishnumaya Prasain donated a large land worth…

Bangladesh is moving 3,000-4,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote Bay of Bengal island over the next two days, two officials said on Sunday, despite concerns about the risk of storms and floods lashing the site.Dhaka has relocated around…

The Rohingya in Myanmar fear the return of the military regime to power, fearing new violence in Rakhine State, as population groups have declared their support for the new authorities.A large segment of this Muslim minority, whose members do not…

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar on Wednesday said that security forces in the country must “stand down before there are more casualties” among protesters, amid reports of use of lethal force against those…

Women in China’s “re-education” camps for Uighurs have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured, according to detailed new accounts obtained by the BBC.Tursunay Ziawudun spent nine months inside China’s vast and secretive system of internment camps in the Xinjiang…

Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar for Bangladesh after a brutal military crackdown three years ago celebrated Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention by the army on Monday.Around 740,000 Rohingya made the journey from Myanmar’s Rakhine state into the neighboring country after…

Democratic Senator from the US state of Maryland, Chris Van Hollen, called on Sri Lanka not to cremate the corpses of Muslims who died of Covid, and to allow religious groups in the country to bury their dead according to…

Bangladesh will move 2,000-3,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal this week, a navy officer said on Wednesday, despite complaints by rights groups concerned about the site’s vulnerability to storms and flooding.Bangladesh has…

The House of Representatives of the Philippines on January 26, 2021, voted unanimously to approve a bill declaring February 1 of every year as National Hijab Day.A total of 203 members of the House voted in favor of House Bill…