Religions and sports

It’s all Cristiano, playing the game Rhe knows best—keeping the world talking about him, on and off the field.

The news of their arrest and imprisonment has sparked fresh concerns over the Kingdom’s human rights record.

France’s minister for sport re-affirmed the state’s commitment to secularism and its opposition to the display of religious symbols during sporting events.

Angeles Bejar was protesting at the treatment of her son, after he kissed a winning Spanish woman footballer.

The mother of the Spanish football president Luis Rubiales is on hunger strike locked inside the parish church of their home town, in protest against her son’s treatment.

Nouhaila Benzina, a Muslim woman from Morocco, was titled the the first senior-level Women’s World Cup player to compete in hijab.

Muslim and Jewish teenage girls played football together at Arsenal Emirates Stadium in England yesterday, in a match to promote diversity and inclusion in the run up to the women’s world cup in July.

According to the charter the clubs are committed to recognise Muslim players and supporters through providing spaces for no alcohol, halal food and consideration when fasting.

The Catholic Herald published a long view of how chess was variously banned and praised within Catholicism.  

The project aims to provide guidance for Muslim athletes to take decisions based on their faith, about how data is used.