President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will inaugurate in the German city of Cologne one of the largest mosques in Europe on Saturday. 

 

The Cologne Central Mosque, built by Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) after eight years of construction work, has a capacity of 1,200 people. 

 

Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah has won the FIFA Puskas Award for goal of the year for his individual effort for club team Liverpool against local rivals Everton at Anfield in December last year.

 

Salah topped the vote on the official FIFA website from a list of 10 candidates, with fans opting for the Liverpool striker’s moment of individual brilliance in the Merseyside derby.

 

Two mosques in Birmingham were attacked with catapults Thursday in the wake of a car crash outside the U.K. parliament that injured three people.

 

No one at the Al-Hijrah and Qamarul Islam mosques was injured as a result of the attacks which lasted 20 minutes. The buildings' windows were smashed with ball bearings while worshippers were attending the evening prayers.

 

Armed police were deployed to the area to prevent further assaults on the mosques.

 

Staff at the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees went on strike in the Gaza Strip on Monday to protest against job losses and US funding cuts.

The one-day strike closed more than 250 UNRWA schools in Gaza, as well as medical centers and food aid distribution points.

 

The United States has traditionally been UNRWA’s largest funder, providing around $350 million (300 million euros) a year.

 

But President Donald Trump has cut all support, sparking a funding crisis.

Gunmen attacked an annual Iranian military parade Saturday in the country's oil-rich southwest, killing at least 29, including 12 members of the country's elite Revolutionary Guard, and wounding 53 others, state-run IRNA news agency reported.

 

Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack in southwestern Iran on Saturday, according to the group's Amaq news agency.

 

Amaq said Daesh’s fighters had carried out the attack in Ahvaz city. The group provided no evidence for the claim.

Britains UK Independence Party (UKIP) presented plans Friday to establish all-Muslim prisons, enhanced screening for migrants coming from abroad and to abolish some equality and anti-racism laws at a conference in Birmingham.

 

The party has claimed extremism is "actively fostered" in jails, where "Muslim gangs hold sway" and "non-Islamic prisoners are converting for their own protection."

 

The Mufti of Dagestan, Sheikh Ahmad Afandi, met with a delegation who arrived in Dagestan to attend the All-Russian Theological Conference today.

 

The delegation included the Mufti of the Chechen Republic Salakh-haji Mezhiyev, the Mufti of Tatarstan Kamil Samigullin, scholars from the Arab countries, and others. The guests of honor thanked Ahmad Afandi for the invitation to this important event, the Muftiyat of RD press service reported.

 

The World Bank approved the $80 million Niger Refugees and Host Communities Support Project (PARCA), which will improve access to basic services and economic opportunities for refugees and host communities in 15 communes in the Diffa, Tahoua and Tillabéri regions, and provide institutional support to local, regional and central government entities in those 3 regions, as well as the Agadez region.

 

Muslim children are being falsely accused of radicalization by the British government as part of its counter-terrorism strategy Prevent, a report said Thursday.

 

The report released by the human rights advocacy group Cage details how Prevent has erroneously targeted Muslim communities throughout the U.K. on the pretext of tackling radicalization and extremism and has even separated Muslim children from their families. 

 

More than five million children risk famine in war-torn Yemen as food and fuel prices soar, Save the Children said Wednesday, warning an entire generation may face death and "starvation on an unprecedented scale"."Millions of children don't know when or if their next meal will come," said Helle Thorning-Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International.

 

"This war risks killing an entire generation of Yemen's children who face multiple threats, from bombs to hunger to preventable diseases like cholera."

The All-Russian Theological Conference "The Role of Religion in Strengthening the Unity of the Peoples of Russia" will be held in the Republic of Dagestan on September 20-21, 2018. The conference is organized by the Committee on Freedom of Conscience, Interaction with Religious Organizations of the Republic of Dagestan and the Muftiate of the Republic of Dagestan.

 

The holy city of Makkah is set to see a sharp increase in the number of retail malls and outlets to cater for a projected boom of pilgrims making the annual Hajj. They are expected to increase by more than 200 percent by 2030.