TEHRAN (IQNA) – A 22-year-old Norwegian man who said he was inspired by far-right attacks was sentenced on Thursday to 21 years in prison after being convicted of killing his stepsister and opening fire in a mosque near Oslo last August.
News ID: 3471667 Publish Date : 2020/06/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The oldest mosque in Beijing, China’s capital, was reopened to worshippers with the easing of the coronavirus epidemic in the country.
News ID: 3471662 Publish Date : 2020/06/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The 2020 Annual National Muslim Soup Kitchen Day arrived one week after Ramadan, the holy month that emphasizes charity, one of Islam’s five pillars.
News ID: 3471619 Publish Date : 2020/06/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – After weeks of being closed due to COVID-19, the Ummah Masjid and Community Centre in Halifax, Canadian province of Nova Scotia, is going to reopen for daily prayers, allowing 10 worshippers inside the mosque at a time.
News ID: 3471602 Publish Date : 2020/06/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Two people were killed and two others injured after a planted bomb exploded inside a popular mosque in Kabul's fortified Green Zone.
News ID: 3471591 Publish Date : 2020/06/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – There is not a single mosque in Athens right now as all of them have been destroyed, Turkey’s president said Sunday.
News ID: 3471569 Publish Date : 2020/06/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – At least 21 members of The Hague's Muslim community have tested positive for COVID-19 after an outbreak at the Al Madinah Mosque, sources told Omroep West on Saturday, with one elderly member succumbing to the disease.
News ID: 3471563 Publish Date : 2020/05/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Al-Aqsa mosque compound -- the third holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia -- reopened on Sunday after being closed for more than two months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
News ID: 3471557 Publish Date : 2020/05/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Paris Grand Mosque board said the mosque will reopen on Tuesday.
News ID: 3471546 Publish Date : 2020/05/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia has announced that Al-Masjid an-Nabawi (the Prophet's Mosque) in the holy city of Medina will gradually open to the public starting Sunday, May 31.
News ID: 3471542 Publish Date : 2020/05/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslim leaders in the US state of Indiana are calling for a hate crime investigation into a drive-by shooting at an Indianapolis mosque on Eid al-Fitr while congregants were inside.
News ID: 3471539 Publish Date : 2020/05/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Palestine on Tuesday reopened a prominent church and mosque in the occupied West Bank as part of easing coronavirus lockdown measures.
News ID: 3471518 Publish Date : 2020/05/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Toronto-area mosque said it was still able to celebrate Eid on Sunday with a physically distant drive-thru celebration with thousands of congregants.
News ID: 3471508 Publish Date : 2020/05/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Berlin church is hosting Muslims who are unable to fit into their mosque for Friday prayers because of social distancing guidelines.
News ID: 3471497 Publish Date : 2020/05/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A prosecutor in Norway has called for the man behind last year's failed mosque shooting to be sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum sentence possible, arguing that he was an "extremely dangerous person".
News ID: 3471486 Publish Date : 2020/05/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Moroccan football player Nordin Amrabat has launched a fundraiser in order to build a mosque in the city of Naarden, Netherlands, where he was born.
News ID: 3471473 Publish Date : 2020/05/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The East Java administration in Indonesia has revoked its permit that allowed Al Akbar Mosque in Surabaya to hold Eid al-Fitr mass prayers following criticism from experts who warned of the consequences of opening up mosques to large crowds during the COVID-19 pandemic.
News ID: 3471470 Publish Date : 2020/05/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – For the first time in its history, the oldest mosque in Vancouver will begin broadcasting its evening call to prayer over loudspeakers for the remainder of Ramadan, in order to provide a sense of community during the pandemic.
News ID: 3471419 Publish Date : 2020/05/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The US Justice Department announced Tuesday that a federal grand jury has indicted a Missouri man on hate crime charges for allegedly setting fire to a mosque last month on the first night of Ramadan.
News ID: 3471416 Publish Date : 2020/05/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Putrajaya, south of Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur, is set to get a third mosque as the population in the area is expected to increase from the current 120,000 to 300,000 in five years’ time, said Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa.
News ID: 3471404 Publish Date : 2020/05/11
