A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan has convicted one Olarenwaju John Ifagbemi for burning the Holy Quran. The convict, said to be a traditionalist, was prosecuted on a charge bothering on insult ...

Salwan Momika was shot to death in the city of Södertälje, Sweden. He had been investigated by Swedish authorities and ...

A husband and wife in northeast Pakistan have been arrested in connection to the death of a 13-year-old girl who was employed ...

The Ismaili sect split into two branches in 1094. Aga Khan was the leader of the Nizari branch, which believes in a living imam or leader. The second branch – Musta'lian Tayyibi Ismailis – believes ...

A man has denied religiously motivated harassment after a Quran was burned outside the Turkish consulate in central London.

Two men have been charged over an incident in which the Quran was burnt near the Turkish consulate in west London. Hamit ...

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged public burnings of the Koran in Sweden two years ago, has been shot dead, Swedish authorities said. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images/File via ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...

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Jan. 30 (UPI) --An Iraqi living in Sweden who faced threats after burning the Koran in Stockholm in 2023 died in a shooting Wednesday, shortly before a verdict in his trial was about to be revealed.