Indonesia imprisons a woman for saying a Muslim prayer before eating pork in a TikTok video

Associated Press 09/22/2023

PALEMBANG, Indonesia — A court in Indonesia has convicted a woman of inciting religious hatred and sentenced her to two years in prison for saying a Muslim prayer and then eating pork — considered forbidden in Islam…

Violence erupts again at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque

Reuters 04/06/2023

GAZA, JERUSALEM—Israeli police clashed with Palestinians at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque a second time on Wednesday, witnesses said, hours after the arrest and removal of more than 350 people in a police raid at the compound and despite…

CCTO issues traffic advisory for Ramadan Night Market

Wenilyn Sabalo 03/24/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Transportation Office (CCTO) issued on Friday, March 24, 2023, a traffic advisory for the Ramadan Night Market that will open Friday night, March 24, 2023. Colon street will be closed…

Ramadan Night Market: Experience the best of Muslim culture starting tonight in Colon

Wenilyn B. Sabalo 03/24/2023

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — Aside from going on out-of-town trips now that summer is here, Cebuanos will have something more to look forward to, especially this month. This is after the Cebu City government and the…

Simple Eid’l Adha celebration for Mandaue’s Muslim community

Mary Rose Sagarino 07/08/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — The Muslim community in Mandaue City will be having a simple celebration on Saturday, July 9, for the observance of Eid’l Adha or feast of sacrifice. Pabay Mangotara, executive director of the Local…

Police eye personal grudge in early morning shooting in Cebu City

Pegeen Maisie M. Sararana and Paul Lauro 05/28/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Police are looking at personal grudge as the possible motive behind the killing of a man along Colon Street in Barangay Pahina Central here past 4 a.m. on Friday, May 28, 2021. The police identified…

Gullas: Remember frontliners in Feast of Sacrifice

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/31/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Talisay City Mayor Gerald Anthony “Samsam” Gullas urged his constituents to remember the sacrifices of the frontliners during the coronavirus pandemic in the celebration of Eid al-Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice, today,…

Gunrunner linked to Muslim extremist group killed in Ormoc

Inquirer.net 11/22/2018

Ormoc City – A suspected gunrunner linked to a Muslim extremist group was killed when he reportedly resisted arrest during an operation by the Criminal Investigation Detective Group of the Philippine National Police in Eastern Visayas along…

Muslim folk in Talisay urged to help flush out pushers, terror suspects

Benjie B. Talisic 09/10/2018

The Muslim community in Talisay City were asked by both police and the military on Monday to extend their full cooperation in the campaign against illegal drugs and terrorism. During a dialogue with Muslim residents in Barangay…

Indonesia’s Muslim group criticizes blasphemy sentence

AP 08/23/2018

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization has criticized the blasphemy conviction and imprisonment of a Buddhist woman who complained that the call to prayer from her neighborhood mosque was too loud. Officials from Nahdlatul Ulama, which…

Duterte OKs bill creating Muslim autonomous region

AP 07/27/2018

President Rodrigo Duterte has signed legislation creating a new Muslim autonomous region aimed at settling nearly half a century of Muslim unrest in the south, where troops crushed an attempt last year by Islamic State group-linked militants…

Muslim community in Cebu celebrate Eid al-Fitr

Rosalie O. Abatayo 06/15/2018

CEBU CITY– Clad in his green camouflage uniform, Master Sergeant Dave Daan sat and prayed with his fellow Muslim brothers. The 52-year-old member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) was among the nearly 1,500 Muslims…

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