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Georgian Muslims celebrate Kurban Bayram

By | September 12th, 2016|Categories: Minorities|Tags: , , , |

(Muslims’ Department of Georgia) Tbilisi, DFWatch – Muslims in Georgia, as well as around the World, celebrate Eid al-Adha, known as Kurban Bayram, major religious celebration from 12 to 15 September. […]

Civil society and countering violent extremism in Georgia

By | May 20th, 2016|Categories: Minorities|Tags: , , , , , , |

Mosque in Duisi, Pankisi Gorge Georgia’s State Agency for Religious Issues is accusing NGOs of fomenting radicalisation and terrorism in the country. Others, however, consider civil society vital in any attempt to prevent it. […]

Neighbours Struggle to Deal with Religious Tension in Tbilisi’s Muslim Settlement

By | February 22nd, 2016|Categories: Minorities|Tags: , , , , , |

Friday prayer in Shia mosque (DFWatch) Soghanlughi, DFWatch – Global Shia–Sunni conflict found its way into a small Azerbaijani community on the outskirts of Tbilisi.What started as a local tension in the predominantly Muslim settlement of Soghanlughi (Soğanlıq in Azerbaijani), which is a part of Ponichala district in the southeast of Tbilisi, escalated into a conflict informed by events in the Middle East, proving increasingly divisive for the community. […]