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The history of Meteora’s monastic community roots back to the 11th century

The young man was arrested in March and accused of burning a copy of the Quran

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The Turkish Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the burning of a Quran in Denmark and urged the Danish authorities to take action to stop these attacks against the Muslims' holy book.

"We condemn in the strongest terms the repeated vile attacks against our holy book, the Quran, in Copenhagen," read the statement issued late on July 24.

The ritual is always the same. Mario Prushi carefully washes his hands and face before kissing and pressing one of the world's smallest Qurans to his forehead.

For generations, the postage stamp-sized book has been passed down in his family, surviving wars and one of the world's most fanatical "godless regimes."

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In Sweden, a prosecutor has decided that as burning the Quran is part of freedom of expression, there is no need for an investigation into the act of burning the Quran outside the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm on Jan. 21.

In mainstream Islam women have no rights. They’re seen as inferiors; according to the Quran women must be fully covered to prevent themselves from being abused

A 10th-century Quran, unique in size and style, has gone on display for the first time as part of a collection of Islamic texts being shown at Israel's National Library to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Turkish government ministers have blasted a French proposal to remove some verses from the Quran.

The Turkish Diyanet Foundation (TDV) has donated a total of 20,000 copies of a Spanish-language version of the Quran for distribution in Latin American countries, a written statement by the foundation said on Feb. 7.