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Thousands of people come together at one of Australia’s biggest mosques to mark the end of Ramadan Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke heckled by protesters at Lakemba mosque ‘Joy in the midst of much grief’: Australian Eid and Nowruz celebrations overshadowed by war in the Middle East Continue…

‘So many people that I love and care about are worried about the survival of people they love overseas,’ Inaz Janif says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Inaz Janif would ordinarily attend prayers at the mosque for…

Conservative leader says debate not about freedom of religion, but its expression in shared public space UK politics live – latest updates Kemi Badenoch has backed her shadow justice secretary, Nick Timothy, after he claimed that Islamic prayers taking place in public are intimidating and…

Suhoor – the pre-dawn meal – is typically shared at home. But in Sydney customers also queue outside food trucks, restaurants and cafes with extended trading hours It’s just after midnight in an industrial courtyard in Auburn in Sydney’s west and a glow of string lights and the constant sizzle of a…

I am, like millions of others, dutifully fasting from dawn to dusk this month. My faith does not define me. It refines me Nazir Afzal is chancellor of the University of Manchester and a former chief prosecutor As Ramadan begins, Muslims across Britain prepare for a month of fasting, reflection and…

Fasting while working long hours is physically demanding. But gratitude is less abstract when hunger has been felt Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life Iftar isn’t just eating, it’s synchronisation. Everyone waits. Everyone eats…

I mourn the vibrant life we lived before. But though our faces anxiously turn to the sky, our hands are joined in a solidarity that rises above hunger Every year, Ramadan comes as a sanctuary for the soul. For Muslims like me, it is a sacred pause in the chaos of life. But this year, as a woman…

More than one million people are expected to visit the month-long night markets in south-west Sydney, where ‘everyone is happy’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The steps at Lakemba mosque on Thursday night hum with a contented quietness, and the smell of sweet bread…

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Israeli police raid compound, arrest staff and curb Muslims’ access as Ramadan begins A six-decade agreement governing Muslim and Jewish prayer at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site has “collapsed” under pressure from Jewish extremists backed by the Israeli government, experts have warned. A…

In the days before Ramadan, the Australian rightwing politician and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson added to her long history of divisive comments directed at Muslims, suggesting there are no “good Muslims” and singling out Lakemba as somewhere people – that is, people like her – 'feel unwanted'.…

Beyond disproving the tired tropes of Muslims hating the west, Australian Muslims can show us what a month of practising to be a better person looks like As Australian Muslims prepared for Ramadan this week, the leader of the second most popular political party in the country, Senator Pauline…

British Muslims are too often acceptable only when they bake cakes or win medals. Now the nation has had a true insight into our faith If anything is going to get me to turn on BBC One early on Eid morning, it’s Eid prayer being televised on a UK terrestrial channel for the first time in British…

Worshippers offered Eid al-Fitr prayers across the world, marking the culmination of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan Continue reading...

The good, the bad and the ugly about the social media platform. Plus: celebrities mark the end of the Islamic month of Ramadan. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, BBC Two “This is the stupidest thing ever.” That was a common reaction to Twitter in 2006, according to the San Francisco startup’s…

From Algerian couscous that makes the house smell ‘buttery’ to semolina cookies packed with dates, each bite is filled with precious memories Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, taking place on 30 March or 31 March, depending on the sighting of the new moon. It’s the end of a spiritual month and…

After prayers in the rubble of mosques, Rafah’s 1m displaced Palestinians found little to be festive about amid grief, hunger and danger Eid al-Fitr celebrations around the world – in pictures As cold, driving rain swept across the rubbish- and rubble-strewn streets of Rafah early on Wednesday…

Muslims mark the start of the three-day festival that signals the end of the holy month of Ramadan Continue reading...