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CAIRO - With tears rolling down her checks, young Qatari athlete Bahya Mansour Al-Hamad can't believe that she is taking part in the London Olympics. Yes, this is my dream come true, emotional Al-Hamad told the Los An ...

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PARIS - Warning of their harmful impact on French society, Catholic bishops will join in a national prayer in France next week to voice opposition against same-sex marriage and euthanasia.They wanted to raise the consciou ...

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JEDDAH - A global Muslim body has proposed sending a fact-finding mission into Burma to probe massacres against the minority Rohingya Muslim in the Buddhist-majority country. More than 90,000 Muslims have either been kille ...

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CAIRO - Fasting for long hours, Canadian Muslims are trying to adapt their work in the blistering summer heat without food and water during the holy month of Ramadan.“The most challenging part of Ramadan is that I can't ta ...

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GAZA CITY - Decorating their food dishes with candles, Gazans prepare their Ramadan iftar meal after long hot fasting hours in darkness due to daily electricity outage. We cannot run fans because the power has been cut,” c ...

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CAIRO - US Muslims have condemned a deadly shooting attack at a Sikh temple in Minnesota, which left at least seven people dead, expressing solidarity with the religious minority.“While details of the attack and the motiva ...

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CAIRO - Facing his first major security emergency, Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi has vowed to avenge the killing of 16 troops in an attack by a Jihadist group on borders with Israel. Those responsible for this crime will ...

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08 April 2012 Muslims in Australia were reinforcing their faith at a Twins of Faith conference. The Melbourne conf ...

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14 March 2012 A bitter dispute between siblings came before the ACT Supreme Court in Canberra last week, when a daughter of a d ...

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12 February 2012 This week, Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has invited Professor Ekmelledin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of th ...

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06 May 2012 Hussein al-Kharsan, a 25-year-old Iraqi, aims to writie the longest copy of the Qur'an in the world. Kharsan says t ...

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07 April 2012 Some of the world's most recognized and renowned authorites in Islamic Law and Islamic Legal Theory are meeting i ...

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28 February 2012 Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashed Al Maktoum has launched the world's ...

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08 February 2012 A joint declaration on Syria has been issued by 107 leading muslim scholars and intellectuals from nearly ever ...

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22 July 2012 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is working toward its goal of an Educational Exchange Program that s ...

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18 June 2012 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in a bid to enhance cooperation and integration with Islamic countr ...

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28 March 2012 Islamic bonds (sukuk) have staged a massive comeback since 2011, after several gloomy years in which even Muslim ...

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06 July 2012 A new, modern-style, green-domed mosque opened today in the paris suburb of Cergy. At 2,000 square me ...

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27 June 2012 Mario Scialoja (pictured), a retired Italian diplomat and the first president of the Italian office of the World M ...

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08 April 2012 The world's first air travel prayer time calculator has been launched to help Muslims know their prayer times alo ...