Europe

Switzerland votes Sunday on whether to ban full facial coverings in public places, despite women in Islamic full-face veils being an exceptionally rare sight in Swiss streets.Polls indicate a slim majority support the move, in a vote that comes after…

A number of Shia youths in Belgium distributed food baskets to the needy in the capital, Brussels.This initiative comes to support the needy and the poor, especially in light of the Coronavirus pandemic.The organizers of the initiative said in an…

A notorious Iraqi preacher said to be ISIS’ de facto leader in Germany was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison by a German court on Wednesday.The 37-year-old Ahmad Abdulaziz Abdullah Abdullah, better known as Abu Walaa, was…

The Imam Ali Islamic Center, peace be upon him, in the German capital Berlin, is organizing a virtual event titled ‘Imam Ali and Social Justice’.This online event is held on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Imam Ali, peace…

A mosque in the Mont Lavelle region, north of the French capital, Paris, has won a case after long legal confrontations with the extremist National Front party.Abdul Aziz Al-Jawahiri, the supervisor of the mosque, said that the idea of building…

Oxfam has accused the British government of prolonging the war in Yemen by allowing the export of air-to-air refueling equipment that it fears could be used to help the Saudi air force conduct indiscriminate bombing in the country.The technology was…

British House of Commons member Bellavia Janet Ribeiro-Addy called on her country’s government to intervene with the government of Bahrain to release a number of detained children.The Labor MP expressed, through her account on Twitter, her fear of the Bahraini…

A new place of worship is set to be built that will bring Muslims, Christians, and Jews together – and it has already been dubbed a “churmosquagogue”.The foundation stone of the House of One in Berlin will be laid at…

Tonahan Gozo, a deputy in the Dutch parliament for the Denk party, of which Turks and immigrants make up the majority, said that with every election in the country, attacking Muslims and Islam becomes a major goal for political parties…

A Muslim woman in Denmark was subjected to a racist assault by a man and his wife, when she went to a market in the suburbs of Copenhagen.The Danish newspaper, Ekstra Bladet, quoted the 30-year-old saying that she went to…