President Alvi through Egypt’s ambassador in Pakistan had sought guidance from Al-Azhar institution, an authority on Islamic injunctions, for a word on the suspension of congregational prayers at mosques amid spike in coronavirus cases. “I am thankful to Grand Imam Shaikh of Al-Azhar and Supreme Council for responding to my personal request to provide guidance to us with regard to Farz Jamaat and Juma prayers in mosques during coronavirus attack,” the president said in a tweet on Wednesday.
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Egypt’s Al-Azhar issues fatwa permitting Juma prayers’ suspension in Pakistan
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Is God on a leave of absence?
4 April 2020, by siawi3As hundreds of our fellow human beings die painful deaths every day because of COVID-19, and millions more suffer in self-isolation, it is painful to hear so-called ‘men of God’ asking us to pray for forgiveness and beg for mercy from the ‘most beneficent and most powerful’.
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Pakistan: Government cancels Sikh pilgrimage and celebrations
8 April 2020, by siawi3The government has cancelled Baisakhi celebrations scheduled to begin on April 14 in Hassanabdal, in which 3,000 Sikhs from India and 2,000 from elsewhere around the world were to participate. Baisakhi is a Sikh baptism ceremony also known as the spring harvest festival, which marks the Sikh new year.
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India: Health Communalism - Can a doctor tell if the Coronavirus has a religion?
17 April 2020, by siawi3Ahmedabad Civil Hospital is accused of splitting COVID19 wards on faith, calls it govt decision. It was said this had been done for ‘the comfort of both communities’.”What is this “comfort”? Did Hindu patients complain against being put in the same ward as Muslim patients? Or did the hospital administration decide to take this massive step on their own, or as they say on orders from the ‘government’?
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USA: Missouri’s Jewish Leaders to GOP: Our Faith Requires Absentee Voting in Pandemic
7 May 2020, by siawi3It’s a brilliant plan. Every other religious institution should follow suit. There’s no reason Catholics, Satanists, Muslims, progressive Christians, etc. can’t do the same thing and make voting all about practicing their faith.
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Blasphemy and Censorship on the African Continent: South Africa, Sudan, and Mauritania
25 May 2020, by siawi3The complex relationship between the human right laws of religion and the human right laws of freedom of expression or opinion has been shown to manifest in some of the most unsavory ways on the African continent. Even in today’s society, there are religious laws present in many African countries, which are used instrumentally to suppress and silence populations from being able to exercise their human right of freedom of expression, belief, and opinion.
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