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Every year on November 20, people celebrate World Children’s Day to remember the day in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child and its ten principles.  The day is observed worldwide to…

New Zealand announced on Saturday that it will amend the current law “to make sure religious communities feel safe and welcome”. Minister of Justice Kiri Allan said under the Human Rights Act 1993 it was already illegal to publish or…

Like other South American countries, the presence of Muslims in Colombia dates back to many decades ago. The Islamic presence in this country dates back to more than 500 years ago, specifically with the official discovery of the Americas, when…

No fewer than 18.3 million Nigerian children are currently identified to have lacked access to the four walls of the classrooms, UNICEF said in a statement on Saturday. According to the statement “discrimination and exclusion deepen intergenerational deprivation and poverty…

World Children’s Day is annually marked as set by the UN on November 20, and the 2022 celebration comes under the theme: “Inclusion for Every Child”. However, racism and discrimination against children based on their ethnicity, language and religion, are…

Speaking on the sidelines of a diplomatic conference held on the occasion of the International Day for Tolerance, Mohammed Moussaoui said Muslims in France are facing growing limitations and this is leading to a social crisis, media outlets reported. The…

An analytical article published by the Nigerian website (HumAngle Media), on Friday, acknowledged that the extremist fatwas of Ibn Taymiyyah are the first reason for the emergence of the takfiri terrorist groups that plague Islamic countries and the world. The…

Families are working to change the Fairfield School District in Connecticut, USA, to be more inclusive of Muslim holidays. Students throughout the Fairfield School District asked the Board of Education to add Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha to the school…

Muslims in Garissa, Northern Kenya, held prayers for divine intervention against a long-running drought. A lack of rainfall over the last four rainy seasons has 378,000 people on the brink of starvation. Kenya’s National Drought and Weather Authority says there…

Islam & Modernism – a seminal exhibition by Pakistan-born, London-based conceptual artist and long-time activist and organizer Rasheed Araeen – is currently being presented at Aicon Gallery in New York. The exhibition at the art gallery takes as its core…