
Diwali was always a cultural, not a religious, festival for my family. To be honest, I celebrated it more enthusiastically than I did Eid.
Source: ABC

The community-building activities my family and I participate in every week are a core part of our faith. In Iran, it would see us arrested.
Source: The Guardian

In 1960, when I was seven, my family moved from the Netherlands to Australia, where I attended a Catholic primary school in Noble Park Victoria.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald

For the second time in less than a year, Pope Francis met with transgender and intersex Catholics on Sunday (Oct. 13) at the Vatican, where he listened to their stories of pain, solitude and redemption.
Source: Religion News

Since the Christchurch mosque terror attacks in 2019, conversion to Islam, especially among Māori, has skyrocketed.
Source: ABC

Fethullah Gulen, proclaimed to be a modern Rumi, who passed away this week, said something similar some time ago as he lived a celibate life.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Muslims across Europe are grappling with a “worrying surge” of racism that is being fuelled in part by “dehumanising anti-Muslim rhetoric”, the EU’s leading rights agency has said, as it published a survey in which nearly half of the Muslim respondents said they had recently experienced discrimination.
Source: The Guardian

Melbourne’s Diwali Festival was held at Marvel Stadium in October, with 20,000 visitors flocking to Docklands for the always colourful occasion.
Source: Docklands News
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