Breaking with his predecessors, Pope Leo XIV declined to pray at the Blue Mosque of Istanbul on Saturday as he continued his first international tour as the Bishop of Rome.
At least two loud explosions were reported from the mosque attached to state high school SMA 72 in Jakarta, Indonesia during morning prayer services on Friday. Police quickly announced that a 17-year-old male suspect was in custody and was “undergoing surgery” for injuries he sustained during the blast.
The world is “a better place” without Charlie Kirk, according to Virginia Imam Ismail Saleem, who accused the recently slain conservative activist of having died “disrespecting black people” and thus unworthy of sympathy, as he declared that the Turning Point USA founder is “getting what he deserves” and the grief of his supporters “makes me smile.”
The shooting took place outside a mosque in the central city of Örebro in the early afternoon following Friday prayers, police said.
The French far-left has attempted to condemn the entire society following the brutal killing of a Muslim worshipper in a mosque in Southern France, allegedly committed by a Bosnian-heritage man.
During his visit to Chechnya, Russian President Vladimir Putin was filmed kissing a gold-leafed Quran at a major mosque.
The tenderfoot Labour government announced that mosques will be offered “emergency security” protection amid the national unrest and riots over mass migration.
Turkey’s authoritarian Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, this week converted the historic Chora Church in Istanbul into a mosque, outraging Christian leaders and drawing a mild rebuke from the Biden State Department.
The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has reportedly found Hindu relics beneath a Muslim temple, fueling a bitter religious dispute.
Imam Qari Abassi claims he believed Harvinder Singh was a discarded briefcase or dustbin lying in the road as he drove to his mosque.
German police raided 54 locations related to a Hamburg-based organization suspected of promoting the Iranian leadership’s ideology.
A powerful suicide bomb was detonated near a mosque in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, killing at least 52 and injuring 70 more at last report.
A £2 million government grant to a Birmingham mosque has been suspended amid outcry over extremist Islamist statements made by its imams.
The tide may to be turning on Britain’s “woke” banking culture with government action after Brexit leader Nigel Farage’s revelations.
Plans to build a new mosque in the historic tourist centre of London thought defeated in 2020 have gained a new lease of life.
The Israeli military claimed Tuesday that Palestinian terrorists have been using a mosque in Jenin as a base for their operations, fortifying it for battle and installing an underground tunnel and weapons cache at the holy site.
An Iraqi burned a copy of the Qur’an outside a mosque in Sweden, sparking another rift with Turkey amid its bid to join the NATO alliance.
Britain has reportedly launched an investigation into its visa rules amid fears that authorities have let hostile Islamist preachers into the country.
Authorities in the UK are investigating the Islamic Centre of England, a London mosque and non-profit with links to Iran.
The government of Milan has announced it will be clearing an area long squatted by illegal African migrants – in order to transform the site into a new mosque and Islamic centre.
A mob of Muslims in the Italian city of Florence blocked a local bailiff from repossessing an illegal mosque, with hundreds of people preventing police from entering.
Islamic State terrorists on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a gun attack on Shiite Muslim pilgrims at a shrine in the southern city of Shiraz.
A man, said to suffer from some form of mental illness, was arrested by French police this week after bursting into a mosque while armed with a samurai-style katana sword.
A transgender, male-to-female, convict was sentenced to 14 years in prison on four charges related to domestic terrorism in a federal court in Illinois on Monday.
The rising share of global migrants arriving at the southern U.S. border has created a mosque in Tijuana, Mexico.
India’s ruling BJP Party on Sunday suspended spokeswoman Nupur Sharma and permanently expelled Delhi regional media director Naveen Kumar Jindal after they made televised comments critical of Islam’s Muhammad and his child bride, Aisha.
Officials in charge of a mosque in Nigeria’s national capital, Abuja, fired the site’s chief imam, or prayer leader, on Monday after he recently delivered a sermon critical of Nigerian government officials, including Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, for failing to protect the West African nation from terror attacks, Nigeria’s Premium Times online newspaper reported.
The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, held its first Ramadan prayers in 88 years on Friday to mark the start of the Islamic month of fasting, after being converted into a mosque in 2020.
The Manchester mosque attended by terrorist Salman Abedi has been accused of burying its “head in the sand” towards Islamic extremism.
A Turkish-linked mosque in the German city of Chemnitz was heavily damaged following a major fire, which may have been arson.
A Mosque in France has been shuttered for six months after authorities accused it of ‘inciting hatred’ and ‘advocating jihad’.
Several windows at a mosque in the eastern German city of Leipzig were broken after dozens of people set off fireworks.
Multiple suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province during Friday prayer services. Local health officials said at least 33 people were killed and 73 wounded in the incident with casualty rates expected to rise further.
A spokesman for the Taliban’s interior ministry said at least five civilians were killed by a bomb at the Eid Gah Mosque in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Sunday. At least four people were also wounded in the bombing, which apparently targeted a funeral service held at the mosque for the mother of Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
The man who is facing life in prison for masterminding the 2017 attack on a Minnesota mosque is now claiming he is a transgender “woman.”
The U.S.-based Hilton hospitality company is developing a hotel built on the site of an Uyghur mosque recently demolished by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China’s western region of Xinjiang, Bitter Winter reported on Wednesday.
A school board member told Justice High School graduates in Fairfax County they are headed to a world rooted in racism and white supremacy.
Police in northern India arrested a 48-year-old Islamic cleric on Monday for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl inside a Delhi mosque on Sunday, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported on Wednesday.
France´s lower house is voting on a bill that would strengthen government oversight of mosquesand crack down on polygamy and forced marriage.
Worshipping whistleblowers have revealed that a mosque in Huddersfield, England, has consistently skirted the China virus lockdown measures after it was shut down following two members of the mosque’s management contracting the virus.
