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Uganda’s Finance Trust Bank on Thursday October 20th launched the country’s first Islamic Sharia compliant account called ‘Halal’. Prominent Muslim personalities attended the launch event held in the country’s capital Kampala. Percy Lubega, head of business development at the bank,…

A bizarre new list to categories Muslims based on their countries of origin is at the heart of what critics call an attempt to further discriminate against the community. Two years ago, Denmark’s former Minister for Immigration and Integration Mattias…

The number of Muslims living in Japan, though small, has nearly doubled in the past decade, from 110,000 in 2010 to 185,000 at the end of 2019 (including as many as 50,000 Japanese converts), according to Tanada Hirofumi of Waseda…

The Louvre museum in Paris will display dozens of artifacts from Uzbekistan that its experts helped restore, including a fragment of an 8th century Quran, the Uzbek government said on Friday. A total of 70 restored artifacts will be shown…

The Sayyed al-Shuhada International Committee, which is affiliated with the Shirazi Religious Authority in Kuwait, announced the completion of the construction works of the largest religious school in East Africa to serve the Shias of Ahlulbayt, peace be upon them.…

19 people, including 7 militants, were killed in two suicide bombings and a military operation in Hiran region, central Somalia. A local official in the city of Jalalaqsi, said that “the cities of Jalalaqsi and Bulaporti in Hiran province witnessed…

NASA’s James Webb Telescope has captured an extraordinary and highly-detailed view of the iconic cosmic landscape Pillars of Creation. The image released on Wednesday revealed newly formed stars and pillars of gas and dust that look like rock formations. The…

The Moroccan Minister of Endowments and Islamic Affairs, Ahmed Al-Tawfiq, stated on Wednesday that the number of mosques in the country is more than 51,000.  He added that there is a need to build about 200 mosques annually, improve the…

Hundreds of people from North Texas’ Muslim community gathered over the weekend and raised tens of thousands of dollars that will help refugee families in the area with rent, food, clothing and necessities. Zeenat Khan, founder of DFW Refugee Outreach Services,…

Nearly half a billion people will develop heart disease, obesity or diabetes if governments do not take “urgent action” to encourage more physical activity among the population, the World Health Organization said in a report on Wednesday. Data from 194…