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Project aims to preserve seeds of crops that once grew across historic Palestine, and to safeguard waning biodiversity. By Dalia Hatuqa Ramallah, occupied West Bank – A search for rare seeds may seem like something out of a fairytale, but for Vivien Sansour it is a quest to bring back what years of Israeli occupation practices and climate change have …

By Post Editorial Board Mark this as the year the Democratic Party turned decisively anti-Israel. The party’s ever-more-dominant liberal base has turned increasingly against the Jewish state — while Bernie Sanders is using his movement to push for Israel-bashing language in the platform. And Israel’s remaining Democratic friends are afraid to speak up. A new Pew Research Poll discloses that, …

By Samanth Subramanian PHILADELPHIA // Even as Republican presidential candidates create acrimony towards Muslims, a new US$100 million Islamic community centre – the largest in the United States – is trying to build stronger ties between people of different faiths. The Diyanet Centre of America, which was funded by Turkey’s religious directorate, will be inaugurated on Saturday by Turkish president Recep …

By Rachael Pells Seven out of Germany's 16 federal states already include Islam in their reglious teaching The head of the German Protestant Church has called for Islam to be taught in all state schools in order to prevent young Muslims from being drawn into radicalisation.  Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, who leads the Evangelical Lutheran Church, said teaching “extensive” Islam classes …

Dear Brothers / Sisters in Islam We have been providing free Sahar / Ifthar meals to caretakers and visitors of the patients warded at the National Hospital

22nd May 2016 Media Release – Relief Coordination Centre (RCC)  The Relief Coordination Centre (RCC) was set up at a meeting convened by the All Ceylon Jamiyathul Ulema on the 20th of May 2016 with all leading Muslim civil Society organizations to strengthen the relief efforts of the Government and civil society. The Muslim community has been actively involved in …