In the wake of the Home Ministry’s observations about waz mahfils, Islamic scholars say they want harmony among the preachers and for the sermons to be refined, instead of controlled. Scholars have ...

DHAKA, Sept 6, 2025 (BSS) - The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, marking the birth and demise anniversary of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad ...

Devotees gather at a 'waz mahfil' (Islamic gathering) in Chittagong city of Bangladesh on Feb. 10. The government has moved against hate speeches by radical Islamist clerics during such events. (Photo ...

Minority leaders including a Catholic Church official have welcomed a decision by Bangladeshi police to censor popular Islamic gatherings in order to stop radical clerics from delivering inflammatory ...

Fearing deterioration of law and order due to “misleading propaganda” on Islamic programmes like Waz-Mahfil before the polls, the Election Commission has said there is no bar on such religious ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s government on Sunday dismissed the Islamic State group’s claim that it was behind a bomb attack on thousands of Shiite Muslims in the nation’s capital, and ...

Japanese Ambassador in Dhaka Matsushiro Horiguchi has said Bangladesh is highly unlikely to become a fundamentalist Islamic country.