0640 GMT January 21, 2021
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Turkey ordered the reconversion of Istanbul’s Chora (Kariye) church, which has served as a museum since 1945, into a mosque and opened it to worship, according to a presidential decree published in the Official Gazette on Friday.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday joined the first Muslim Friday prayers attended by thousands in Hagia Sophia since the reconversion of the iconic Istanbul cathedral into a mosque.c
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The world-famous Hagia Sophia Museum in Istanbul — originally founded as a cathedral — has been turned back into a mosque.
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A Turkish court opened the way on Friday for Hagia Sophia to be restored as a mosque, threatening to set off an international furor around a World Heritage site cherished by Christians and Muslims alike for its religious significance, stunning structure and as a symbol of conquest.
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The Punjab Archeological Department has decided to take steps to preserve the remains of a five-and-a-half-century-old historic mosque located in Eminabad in Gujranwala.
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Iran laid down conditions for worshippers on Monday as mosques reopened in parts of the country deemed at low risk from the novel coronavirus.
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Israeli officials have banned a high-ranking Palestinian Muslim cleric from entering al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds amid an escalation of acts of violence by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinian people.
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At least 13 people, including a senior police officer, have been killed and 20 others injured in a powerful explosion that ripped through a mosque in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta.
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Two people have been injured when shots were fired near a mosque in southwest France, with police saying that the suspected gunman has been arrested.
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At least four people have been killed in an explosion that rocked a mosque near Quetta, the provincial capital of Pakistan’s restive province of Balochistan.
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The extreme rightwing ideology that inspired the Christchurch mosque killer has been promoted so effectively by the far right that it has entered mainstream political discourse, new analysis revealed.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi strongly condemned a terrorist attack on a Shia mosque in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad that wounded several people.
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The man accused of shooting dead 51 Muslim worshipers in the Christchurch mosque attacks in March has pleaded not guilty to all charges leveled against him.
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New Zealand rugby bosses have confirmed the Canterbury Crusaders will keep their name for at least another year, despite a backlash following the mosque attacks in the team's hometown of Christchurch in March.
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New Zealand police charged the man accused of murder in shootings at two Christchurch mosques in March with engaging in a terrorist act, the first time such a charge had been brought in the country's history, they said on Tuesday.
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