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Masjid development dependent on community

While VOC and Awqaf SA have succeeded in giving 21 masajid a cash injection to improve their facilities, the challenge now is for the community to keep sustaining the project as a form of sadaqah Jariyah. These were the sentiments of Awqaf SA CEO Zeinoul Cajee, in concluding the VOC/AWQAF[…]

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Saudi brothers arrested over mosque bombing

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have arrested three brothers alleged to have links to a bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Kuwait in June, the country’s state media reported. Two Saudi police officers were wounded during a shoot-out as they tried to apprehend one of the suspects at a house[…]

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80 killed in Boko Haram mosque attacks

Boko Haram fighters have gunned down at least 80 Muslims praying in mosques in a northeastern Nigerian town during the holy month of Ramadan, a member of a local vigilante group said. Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Abuja on Thursday, said the victims, mostly men, were killed in the[…]

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Touwsriver launches Laingsburg mosque project

The Touwsriver Islamic Society is appealing to the community to aid them in their project to construct a mosque in the Laingsburg area. The society has recently purchased a property with an incomplete building on it with the hopes of transforming the building into a mosque for the community of[…]

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IS suicide bomber attacks Kuwait mosque

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a packed Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, killing more than ten people, the governor of Kuwait City said. The Islamic State radical group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on social media and said it targeted[…]

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City to reduce red tape for prayer spaces

The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) on Wednesday announced a ground-breaking initiative in partnership with the City of Cape Town that will seek to ease the process of establishing mosques, prayer spaces and Islamic institutions across the city. Through the project, land will be made available in areas where prayer facilities[…]

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Dr Quick leads drive for masjid near Arctic

The ability of humans to thrive in some of the world’s harshest and most inhospitable terrains never ceases to amaze. There are few places on earth where communities have yet to populate, braving some of the most severe conditions imaginable. Such is the case in Canada’s north-east, were around 8000[…]

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Mosque set alight in Germany

Amid a series of attacks in Europe, another mosque was burnt in Germany on Tuesday morning, adding to the increasing number of Islamophobic attacks on Muslims and Islamic centres in recent months. “At first we thought the tea burnt. But then we noticed the smoke in the prayer room” said[…]

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