The ‘Vishwa Beary Sammelana’ will be organized next year and leaders of the community across the world will take part,”said Karnataka Beary Sahithya Academy president Rahim Ucchil here at a press meet here on September 3. The event is scheduled to be held in Shimoga and a preparatory meet will be organized in this regard…
The Dubai Bearys Cultural Forum distributed scholarships to the tune of Rs. 15 lakh among 450 students here at a function held in the St. Aloyssius PU College auditorium in the last week of August. Speaking at the occasion, Dr. K. B. Yusuf, president of the Forum said the organization had been giving away scholarships for…
Professor K. A. Nizami Centre for Quranic Studies will be inaugurated at the Aligarh Muslim University by vice-president, Hamid Ansari. The Centre for Quranic Studies has been named after late Prof. Khaliq Ahmad Nizami (1925- 1997), who was associated with AMU for nearly half a century. He was a prolific scholar who wrote over 50…
Making best use of her education and excellent networking skills, Nasreen Sattar’s Seeds of Success, an organization which combines philanthropy with grassroots activism is reaching out to help people, irrespective of religion, caste, creed and gender. Her example needs to be emulated by the community today. How many of us make good, productive use of…
Hadia Tajik, a woman Muslim Holidays of Pakistani origin has been appointed the first Muslim Minister in Norway. She will look after the culture portfolio. With no precedent in Norwegian history, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg appointed Hadia Tajik, a 29-year-old Muslim woman, as minister of culture, making Tajik the youngest minister in the Norwegian Cabinet…
The German state of Hamburg has agreed to implement and recognize religious-related holidays, including school holidays, religious education and burial rituals after three years of negotiations with Muslim groups. Unlike Christians churches, Muslim mosques and associations are not recognized as corporations by public law. However, the State of Hamburg Germany has stated it will guarantee…
The United States has criticised France and Belgium for banning women from wearing face-covering Islamic veils in public, while warning of growing anti- Semitism and hostility towards Muslims in Europe. The US State Department’s report on religious freedoms, researched in 2011 but released on July 30, 2012, warned that freedom of worship was being undermined…
The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) condemned the ruling by a court in Berlin, capital of Germany, to authorize far-right political party, Pro-Deutschland (for Germany) to brandish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad at demonstrations under “Islam does not belong to Germany “ stop Islamization” in front of three big mosques in Neukölln and Wedding…
Said Aalla, the president of the new Mosque of Strasbourg announced to 2,500 faithful who attended Friday prayers on the first day of Ramadan that the new mosque would be officially inaugurated by President Hollande and Interior Minister Valls on September 27. Meanwhile, Queen’s University (Canada) Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) gives France an overall…
Most voters continue to say it is important for a president to have strong religious beliefs. But voters have limited awareness of the religious faiths of both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. And there is little evidence to suggest that concerns about the candidates’ respective faiths will have a meaningful impact in the fall elections.…
