News Agencies – November 15, 2012 Months before the Muslim women’s helpline was launched, the phone at the Mississauga-based Women’s Resource Centre started ringing. In October 2012, after months of research, training and fundraising, the Women’s Resource Centre launched what is believed to be the country’s first helpline specifically for Muslim women. Confidential and…
23/02/2011 The Federation of Muslim Communities of Castilla La-Mancha has warned in a press release of a new type of scam that affects the Muslim Communities of the autonomous region of Castilla La-Mancha. The mafia modus operandi is to offer help for the fundraising in Saudi Arabia in exchange for an in advance payment from…
North America’s most northern minaret opens (after an epic 2,800-mile journey) The most northern mosque in North America officially opened yesterday in Inuvik, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, where there is a growing Muslim population. The opening marks the end of an arduous journey that saw the building travel over rivers – atop barges – and…
Yardem National Islamic Charitable Foundation, in cooperation with the Rehabilitation Center at the Sulaiman mosque in Kazan have initiated a fundraising effort for “Light of Knowledge for the Blind”, to purchase equipment for a local Muslim library. Danis Garayev, a project initiator, says each year the library issues hundreds of Braille Muslim books. “We distribute…
Le Bourget, organized by the Union of Islamic Organizations in France (UOIF), is considered the largest Muslim convention in Europe. The conference, which takes place every year in the northeastern Paris suburb of Le Bourget, has long been the best destination to raise funds to build mosques. Some 200,000 people, from France and other European…
