Asia

The Malaysian government decided to appeal a court ruling issued last week that repealed a ban on non-Muslims using the word ‘Allah’ in their publications, according to local media reports.According to media reports, the appeal warrant was submitted to the…

Muslims will be exempt from Cambodia’s mandatory order to cremate the bodies of all people who die of COVID-19, the country’s premier said on Wednesday.Prime Minister Hun Sen, who announced the cremation order a day earlier, said Muslims in the…

Uzbekistan is witnessing intense controversy and concerns between Muslims and Christians due to the state’s new criminal law, which will enter into force on January 1 of next year, and may undermine religious freedom in the country.Members of religious sects…

Shia and Sunni Muslim scholars in India issued a fatwa against former chief of UP Shia central Waqf Board, Waseem Rizvi, who has racked up a controversy by moving a plea before the Supreme Court (SC) to remove 26 Quranic…

A Muslim child was allegedly thrashed by a man identified as Shringi Nandan Yadav for drinking water inside a temple in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad. A disturbing video of the incident has gone viral on social media.In the video, the accused,…

Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the face covering burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said on Saturday, the latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population.Minister for public security Sarath Weerasekera told…

A Malaysian court on Wednesday overturned a decades-old government policy barring non-Muslim publications from using the word “Allah” to refer to God, in a landmark ruling on an issue that has fanned religious tensions in the mainly Muslim country.The decision…

Indonesia’s top religious authority has called on Muslims in the country to raise funds to help hunger-hit Yemenis.The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) asked the wealthy Muslims in general, and Islamic and humanitarian organizations in Indonesia in particular, to raise funds…

On December 26, 2001, Mohammad Abdul Hai boarded a train to Gujarat to attend a three-day seminar on Muslim education organized by the All India Minority Education Board, of which Hai – then an associate professor at Jodhpur’s Jai Narain…

Indian police have detained more than 150 Rohingya refugees found living illegally in the northern region of Jammu and Kashmir and a process has begun to deport them back to Myanmar, two officials said on Sunday.Dozens of Rohingya are in…