LONDON (IQNA) – The Platforma arts festival showcasing the works of Middle Eastern and Muslim refugees opened in the UK on Saturday.

WASHINGTON, DC (IQNA) – A local mosque in Brooklyn has been given green light to block the street in front of its premises to organize Friday prayers.

OTTAWA (IQNA) – Programs have been planned to honor Muslim women and youth as Canada will mark the Islamic Heritage Month.

CANBERRA (IQNA) – Mahmoud Abdelfattah, the first Muslims or Palestinian coach to head a basketball team in Australia’s top league, says he seeks to be a “role model” that he himself lacked while growing up.

OTTAWA (IQNA) – A local Muslim counseling group has received more than $200,000 in federal funding to assist the Muslim community who are suffering from the trauma of an Islamophobic attack in Ontario that killed four people.

OTTAWA (IQNA) – Being ME, which is North America’s premier Muslim women’s conference is back in Vancouver, Canada, for its third conference.

BAGHDAD (IQNA) – Top Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani offered condolences after hundreds of people were killed or injured in a fire at a wedding party in northern Iraq.

CANBERRA (IQNA) – Several mosques across Australia regularly hold sessions that teach members of the Muslim community how to provide first aid in emergency situations.

LONDON (IQNA) – On the auspicious occasion of Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) birth anniversary, roses and gift were handed out to shoppers in Blackburn town center in the UK on the weekend.

LONDON (IQNA) – A campaign to promote UK halal meat has been launched that could help British lamb attract thousands of younger new consumers.

LONDON (IQNA) – When a Muslim in the UK seeks to secure a home loan in line with his religious beliefs, he will face the prospect of paying much higher interest rates.

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The tenth National Mosque Open Day (NMOD) will take place on Saturday 28 October, an event that invites Australians of all backgrounds to visit their local mosques and learn more about Islam and its culture.