Egypt's Mufti Approves Synchronized Call to Prayer
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Egypt's highest authority on Islamic law  endorsed Saturday a controversial government plan to  synchronize the call to prayer in Cairo's mosques and put an  end to the present haphazard system based on the timekeeping of  each individual establishment.
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Leaders of Australia&#39;s Muslim community on Monday called for unity under new mufti Sheikh Fehmi Naji El-Imam after his controversial predecessor stepped down.
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak engaged Persian Gulf leaders yesterday in an effort to build momentum toward peace in the Middle East, calling for support of the new Palestinian leadership and talking up the prospects of an Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
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Pope Benedict visited Istanbul's Blue Mosque on Thursday, only the second Roman Catholic Pontiff to take such a step, and prayed silently in another gesture of reconciliation to the Muslim world.
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Friday prayers marked the start of Ramadan in the Middle East as millions of Muslims around the world began observance of the holy month of fasting and prayer.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Rome to drum up support for a renewed international drive in the fight against terrorism just days after his own country was hammered by terrorist bombs in the Sinai.
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The government said yesterday it wants to unify the calls to prayer that blare separately from thousands of mosque loudspeakers in the capital, but the idea was criticized by many as un-Islamic.
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The Palestinian and Israeli leaders accept an Egyptian invitation to a summit in Sharm el-Sheikh next week
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Egypt has agreed to a Palestinian Authority request to hold funeral services in Cairo for Yasir Arafat.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said that he won backing from Turkey for his plan to form a group of Muslim countries that will work towards peace in the Middle East.
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Pope Benedict backed Ankara's EU entry  bid and said Islam was a religion of peace on Tuesday,  according to Turkey's prime minister, in a bid to soothe rows  over his views in the mostly Muslim state.
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JERUSALEM - Egypt said yesterday it had brokered an understanding to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence and move toward a peace accord, hours after Hamas militants set off a bomb in Gaza that killed an Israeli soldier and triggered Israeli retaliation
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The rival Palestinian governments in the West Bank and Gaza argued over mosque sermons and collection of donations during Ramadan, but agreed to start observance together on Thursday in a rare note of unity for the holiest period for Muslims.
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CAIRO - As he walked to noon prayers at his mosque in Milan  on a chilly day in February 2003, Osama Hassan Nasr says he was stopped by a  man waving a badge and shouting, 'Police.'      The man demanded his ...Comment
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The Muslim fasting month of Ramadan will   begin on Sunday morning in Egypt, the most populous Arab   country, the office of the mufti said on Friday.
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The Egyptian government says it wants to unify the calls to prayer that air separately from thousands of mosque loudspeakers in the capital Cairo.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- Top Shi'ite clerics, emboldened by what they perceive as a massive turnout by their followers for the coalition of Shi'ite religious parties, have already directed their attention to advocating for an Islamic constitution, several of them said in the aftermath of Sunday's election.