NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu nationalist government in northern India has shut five more Islamic schools as part of an expanding crackdown on madrasas, months after dismantling the state body that had regulated Muslim religious education for years. The latest closures in the state of Uttarakhand bring to 20 the number of madrasas [&hellip...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN human rights chief on Monday urged member states to refer the situation in Burma to the International Criminal Court (ICC), warning that years of international efforts have failed to resolve the country’s worsening human rights crisis. Burma’s military junta officially calls the country Myanmar, a name adopted by the...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Prominent Bollywood filmmaker Tigmanshu Dhulia has said growing Islamophobia across Indian society has seeped into the country’s influential film industry, acknowledging concerns over anti-Muslim prejudice in an industry that has historically projected India’s religious and cultural diversity. Dhulia, an a...
SYDNEY, Australia (MNTV) — Australia has launched its first national index to measure and monitor community attitudes toward Muslims, an initiative the country’s anti-Islamophobia envoy says will replace anecdote with reliable data, the outlet ABNA reported. Commissioned by the Office of the Special Envoy for Combating Islamophobia and c...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (MNTV) — A call by a New Zealand church leader to “purge” Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs and burn their places of worship has drawn condemnation from ten major ethnic and religious organizations, in one of the strongest interfaith responses since the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks, the outlet AMUST reported. T...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Two Muslim women journalists have accused police in the Indian capital of assaulting them in custody and intensifying the beating after learning they were Muslims, triggering condemnation from press organizations and renewed concerns over the treatment of journalists and religious minorities in India. Shaheen Khan and...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (MNTV) — Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan have signed an agreement to raise annual bilateral trade to $200 million within two years, a steep increase from about $16 million now, during a visit by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Sharif said the existing trade volume was far too low given the countries’ close ties, and ...
SYDNEY, Australia (MNTV) — Muslim healthcare workers in Australia face an extra layer of complexity atop the burnout, regulatory complaints, and public scrutiny common to the profession, leaders said at a national conference calling for stronger protections and organizational reform. At the Australian Islamic Medical Association (AIMA) confere...
WEST BANK, Palestine (MNTV) — A small group of Israeli activists, many of them religious Jews, are confronting fellow Israelis in the occupied West Bank to protect Palestinians from escalating settler violence. About 30 activists regularly travel to Palestinian communities where settlers have been accused of attacking residents, damaging prope...
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (MNTV) — Iranian residents in Kuwait say they are increasingly caught between the widening US-Iran conflict and a government crackdown that has placed their community under mounting pressure. The Iranian community, numbering about 52,000 people, has faced heightened scrutiny since the war erupted, with some businesses remov...
