The coronavirus claimed, on Monday, April 6, 2020, Riay Tatary, president of the Islamic Commission of Spain (CIE), and also imam of the central mosque in Madrid. He was 72 years old.
The president of the National Rally (RN), Marine Le Pen, claims that mosques are taking advantage of the containment instructions to broadcast the muezzin’s call to prayer through loudspeakers. She calls on the Minister of the Interior to put an end to these noise nuisances.
The court of first instance in Casablanca sentenced, on Friday, April 3, the Salafist preacher, Abdelhamid Abou Naïm, to one year in prison and a fine of 2,000 DH for having condemned the decision to close mosques.
"Institutionalized religions, carried by their official representatives, will surely have to review their copies in the post-crisis period," warns the Islamologist Asma Lamrabet . The coronavirus crisis has called into question the order of things. It has installed psychosis, uncertainty and dread within the community, subjected to confinement in the hope of a spiritual renewal.
In this context marked by the coronavirus pandemic, imams and reciters will not have French visas for the month of Ramadan which will begin on April 24.
At the time of confinement, the inhabitants are confronted with a difficult cohabitation caused most of the time by the high sound of the recitation of the Quran.
A fundraising campaign has been initiated for the benefit of undocumented migrants living in the Kingdom, regardless of nationality and religion, by the Saint-Pierre Cathedral of Rabat.
In this context marked by confinement, the Grand Mosque of Lyon closed to the public until further notice, has called on Muslims to pray at home during the traditional adhan, on Wednesday, March 25.
Three individuals who were trying to forcibly enter a mosque located in Jamaat Shaim were arrested on Monday by the elements of the Royal Gendarmerie of Safi.
Faced with the progression of the coronavirus in Morocco , Cardinal Cristobal Lopez Romero, Archbishop of Rabat, has called on Jews, Muslims and Christians to a "pandemic of prayer" this Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 8 p.m. (local time).
This year in Morocco, the 1st Chaâbane 1441 of the Hijri calendar will correspond to Thursday, March 26, the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs announced on Tuesday, March 24.
Faced with the coronavirus pandemic, the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) has made some proposals focused on the replacement of collective prayers.