Adzan - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 27 Aug 2018 02:41:21 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Adzan - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Woman jailed for complaining adzan call to prayer is too loud https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/08/27/woman-jailed-adzan/ Mon, 27 Aug 2018 07:53:34 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=111048 A Buddhist woman in Sumatra has been jailed after she complained the adzan, or call to prayer, from her local mosque is too loud. Indonesia's largest Islamic bodies have denounced the jailing, with senior figures from Indonesia's two largest Islamic bodies backing them. "I do not see how saying ‘adzan is too loud' is an Read more

Woman jailed for complaining adzan call to prayer is too loud... Read more]]> A Buddhist woman in Sumatra has been jailed after she complained the adzan, or call to prayer, from her local mosque is too loud.

Indonesia's largest Islamic bodies have denounced the jailing, with senior figures from Indonesia's two largest Islamic bodies backing them.

"I do not see how saying ‘adzan is too loud' is an expression of hatred of hostility toward a particular group or religion," said Robikin Emhas, head of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) legal division. Read more

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