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This report presents an overview of the BritishMuslim charity sector outlining the opportunitiesthat British Muslim charitable work offers the UK.After highlighting the untapped potential for charitiesseeking to strengthen their domestic impact, thereport proposes...

The Leadership Foundation for Higher Education has urged Universities to treat religion and religious issues equally with other areas of diversity, like colour and disability.   Universities are being urged to think more carefully about the challenges of religion...

Citizens UK, national community organizing charity, in July, announced its plan to launch a national commission, chaired by Rt Hon Dominic Grieve PC QC MP, to consider how the Muslim community could better participate in the life of British society.    ...

Anti-Muslim hate crimes are to be recorded as a separate category for the first time by police in England and Wales, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. The move brings Islamophobia in line with anti-Semitic attacks targeting Jews, which have been recorded...

Currently there is no study of what Muslim chaplains do and what the result of their actions is. The lack of a formally defined practice means Muslim chaplains often just do chaplaincy as they experience it. According to a news article on Muslim chaplains, "Chaplaincy...

Muslim chaplains in Britain play a key role linking their communities with public organisations, research by Cardiff University has found. It found a rapidly growing number of Muslims in a sphere of work usually associated with the Christian faith. Chaplains can be...

A North-East university has become the first in the UK to appoint a female Muslim chaplain. Mahshid Turner, a part-time PhD student at Durham University, has taken up the post on a voluntary basis. The 58-year-old is a trained social worker in the mental health field...