On October 12, 2019, a service was held for the first time in the capital of Tatarstan at the memorial church to the Russian invaders killed during the capture of Kazan. The service was held with the blessing of Metropolitan Theophanes. The bishop services at this monument are held for the first time in a hundred years.

As expected, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s offensive into northern Syria fizzles out without achieving the stated aim of establishing a Turkish controlled safe zone 32km deep into Syrian territory. But the political astute among the Ummah fully anticipated this development as true to form.

There are verses in the Book of Allah which secularists and enemies of Islam are itching to abolish if they could. Malicious people always direct their arrows of slander and falsehood toward Islam through these verses, and the most prominent of these verses is the saying of Allah (swt), ﴿يُوصِيكُمُ ٱللَّهُ فِيٓ أَوۡلَٰدِكُمۡۖ لِلذَّكَرِ مِثۡلُ حَظِّ ٱلۡأُنثَيَيۡنِ﴾“Allah instructs you concerning your children: for the male, what is equal to the…

The gulf between the Muslims and the current rulers is evident, regarding the plight of oppressed Muslims. The Islamic Ummah is restless over the oppression of the Uighur, Rohingya, the people of Palestine and Kashmir by relentless aggressors. The Ummah identifies with the oppressed as Muslims, part of a single brotherhood.