Tag Archive "mosque"

Qatar approves $1.8m mosque project in Djibouti

QATAR CITY — The Islamic Affairs Department of Qatar on Saturday announced its approval of the final design of a US$1.8m grand mosque in the ...

SOMALIA: Gunmen kill 5 in a Mosque in Puntland

LAS ANOD — Gunmen stormed a mosque in the Somali city of Galkayo Saturday and sprayed gunfire on worshippers, killing at least five and wounding ...

South Africa slams Israel over heritage site annex

PRETORIA (Somalilandpress) — South Africa’s response to Israel’s decision to declare the cave of the Patriachs and Rachel’s tomb in the West Bank to be ...

NIGERIA: 150 Muslim residents massacred

A US-based rights group has urged Nigeria’s vice-president to order an immediate criminal investigation into “a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents” of a town ...

Breaking News: Somaliland forces say attack on mosque foiled

HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — Security forces in Somalia’s northern breakaway enclave of Somaliland said on Saturday they had foiled an attack on a mosque in Hargeisa ...

Swiss Muslims open mosque doors

Zurich, 08 November 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Muslims in many parts of Switzerland have invited the public into mosques – three weeks before a vote on whether ...