Saudi Culture and Information Minister Awwad Alawwad on Friday unveiled the kingdom’s pilgrimage media plan for 2018 (year 1439 on the Hijri calendar).

A woman has become the first person in Denmark to be charged with wearing a face veil in public, after a ban came into effect on Wednesday.

Hundreds of Danish Muslims and non-Muslims are planning a protest on Wednesday, August 1, against a nationwide ban on niqab (the face veil Muslims women wear), set to come into action this week.

Chinese Muslims going to Makkah this year for Hajj are wearing devices that allow the Chinese government to track their position during the spiritual journey, and this has been criticized by human rights activists.

Note: a journalist of Daily Etemad recently interviewed Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, president of Darululoom Zahedan and Friday imam of Sunnis in Zahedan where he underlined that they never commit treason against their country.

The names of about four million people in India’s Assam state are not included in the final draft list of citizens published by authorities on Monday.

An Egyptian court on Saturday handed down a preliminary death sentence against 75 defendants in connection with the dispersal of a major protest camp in Cairo in 2013, according to a judicial source.

As Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) takes the lead in Pakistan’s disputed general election, it is likely to face multiple challenges as a new ruling party.

A group of researchers from the Faculty of Qur’anic and Sunnah Studies at the University Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) is working on developing a software to enable hearing-impaired people learn Qur’an.

Saudi Arabia’s Food and Drugs Authority (SFDA) has announced plans to launch what is claimed to be the world’s largest center for halal food and products.