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Russia is drafting a new law to regulate Islamic banking in the country, a growing sector that could help state-run banks hit by sanctions to attract investors from Muslim-majority countries as well as cater to domestic customers. The mass-circulated Russian…

Chinese President, Xi Jinping, has asked officials to step up efforts to uphold the principle that Islam in China must be Chinese in orientation and it should adapt to the socialist society being pursued by the ruling Communist Party of…

Dr. Lee Myung Won said that he planned to translate the Holy Quran in 1984 when he met the Egyptian professor “Ahmed Abdel Fattah Suleiman” who invited him to Islam and taught him the Quran, Arabic language and rhetoric. He…

Israel should be blacklisted by the United Nations if it continues inflicting violence on Palestinian children at such high levels, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared on Monday, following the publication of the international body’s latest Children and Armed Conflict report.…

The Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs in Jordan issued a decision suspending 68 Quranic centers from operation. A campaign was launched in rejection of the decision of the Jordanian Minister of Endowments, Muhammad Al-Khalayleh, to stop 68 Quranic centers,…

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili visited the Jumah Mosque in the capital Tbilisi to congratulate Muslims on Eid al-Adha. In the mosque, Garibashvili met with a number of clerics and citizens, as well as representatives of several embassies, including Turkish…

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…