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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…

Today, Wednesday, the head of the Nigerian National Oil Corporation, Melle Kyari, announced the death of the Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Muhammad Barkindo. Kyari wrote on Twitter this morning: “We have lost the respected Dr.…

Arson detectives are investigating a hate crime attack at a mosque on Long Island. A member of the Fatima Al-Zahra mosque in Ronkonkoma posted video to social media showing damage to a crescent sign on the property. He said the…

Pastor Jane Buckley-Farlee was recently walking through her Minneapolis church’s Cedar-Riverside neighbourhood when an unexpected ‘song’ broke out. “I heard this tune that sounded sort of heavenly,” she said. At first, she did not know what it was – but…

Finnish researchers have installed the world’s first fully working “sand battery” which can store green power for months at a time. The developers say this could solve the problem of year-round supply, a major issue for green energy. Using low-grade…

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…

The Imam Shirazi World Foundation (ISWF) has sent a message to the Libyan people and their leaders, in which it called on the leaders, rulers and politicians of the Libyan society to be wise, vigilant and rational in managing the…

The leader of the “Stop Islamization of Norway” movement, Lars Thorne, burned a copy of the Holy Quran in a neighborhood where a large Muslim community lives on the outskirts of the capital, Oslo. The act angered a number of…

In a joint statement, dozens of human rights organizations called on Western countries allied with the UAE to pressure the Abu Dhabi authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all those convicted in the mass trial of members of the so-called…

The religious leader of the Shias of Burkina Faso, Sheikh Ali Badara, visited the Holy Shrine of Imam Redha, peace be upon him, and met the director of international relations there, Muhammad Zulfiqari. Sheikh Ali Badara said that Burkina Faso,…