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by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 21, 2017 | Middle East
Dubai- Low on funds to support millions of refugees scattered across the Middle East, the United Nations initiated a program allowing Muslims to make donations from the alms they typically pay state bodies for the benefit of the poor. The UN High Commission for...
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Houthi rmilitants hold up their weapons in Sanaa, Yemen, March 26, 2015, Reuters
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 21, 2016 | Middle East
Taiz- Local sources located in the Dhamar Governorate of Yemen revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that an estimated $800,000 (200,000,000 YER) was pillaged from the governorate’s Zakat return. As one of the Five Pillars of Islam, zakat is a form of alms-giving and religious...