A European diplomat on Saturday said that the European Union is ready to send a mission to monitor the Palestinian electoral process, as well as support the Central Elections Commission.
During a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye in Ramallah city, Sven Kuhn Von Burgdsroff, the EU representative in Palestine, stressed that the EU supports holding the general elections in the Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, Ishtaye praised the EU’s support for holding the general elections, calling on it to put pressure on Israel to permit holding the Palestinian elections in East Jerusalem. Enditem
(UN Photo/Tobin Jones)Young girls line up at a feeding center in Mogadishu, Somalia on 9 March 2017.
The World Council of Churches has joined the rest of the plant in welcoming the award of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the UN World Food Program, one of the world’s first responders in global crises.
“We express our gratitude and congratulations to the leadership and each staff member of the World Food Program,” said Rev. Ioan Sauca, WCC interim general secretary.
Oxafam released as report soon after say the threat of “COVID famines” and widespread extreme hunger is setting off every alarm bell within the international community, but so far sluggish funding is hampering humanitarian agencies’ efforts to deliver urgent assistance to people in need.
A new Oxfam analysis says that the international community’s response to global food insecurity has been dangerously inadequate.
The report, “Later Will Be Too Late”, is aimed at the Committee for World Food Security’s (CFS) high-level event today which is hoped to “keep food security and nutrition front-and-centere of the global sustainable development agenda.”
In Yemen, DRC, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Somalia – that is, five of the seven countries where severe hunger continues to increase – donors have so far given no money at all for the “COVID-related nutrition assistance” part of the UN’s $10.34 billion humanitarian appeal.
“This vital multilateral organization comprises many dedicated people, working in the remotest and most vulnerable regions of the world, affected by conflict, climate catastrophe and economic crises.”
The WFP’s spokesman Tomson Phiri was briefing journalists at the UN in Geneva when then announcement was made and said he views the Nobel Peace Prize as recognition of those struggling to prevent starvation around the world.
“This is a proud moment. The nomination in itself was enough. But to then go on and be named the Nobel Peace Prize winner is nothing short of a feat,” he said.
“This is an organization I have served for nine years. I have seen the extent to which the people who are dedicated across the globe go the extra mile,” said Phiri from Zimbabwe.
“Just before I moved to Geneva, I was based in South Sudan, where people would walk on foot to serve humanity. And it’s really a proud moment. I really feel honored to be a member of this,” he noted.
WFP WORKERS’ SACRIFICES
The first thing that came to his mind when he heard the announcement was, “I thought of all my colleagues whom I’ve worked with in many countries, all the sacrifices that they do sometimes under conditions of insecurity. I think this is for them.”
Earlier WFP’s U.S. Executive Director David Beasley tweeted on hearing of the award that he as “deeply humbled” by the announcement
“This is an incredible recognition of the dedication of the WFP family, working to end hunger everyday in 80 countries,” he wrote.
The United Nations estimates that the world recession caused by the COVID-19 crisis pushed an additional 83 to 132 million people into hunger with women and children usually those most at risk.
World Food Program received the award “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas. And for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict,” said Nobel committee chairman Berit Reiss-Andersen in speaking about the award.
The award announced in Oslo each year comes with a gold medal and prize money of 10 million Swedish kronor or U.S.$1.1 million. It is courtesy of a bequest left 124 years ago by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
“We expect the Nobel Peace Prize to also help us going forward in not only shining the light on ourselves, but shining the light on the work that we do,” said Phiri.
The WFP’s contribution has become even more important in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, as the number of people facing acute food insecurity has nearly doubled to 265 million in 2020, from 135 million in 2019 said the WCC.
“People of faith, who are deeply rooted in their communities, are witness to the WFP’s heroic, sacrificial, and consistent responses to hunger, and have been privileged to serve as partners in many such contexts,” said Sauca.
He commented as faith communities were celebrating Churches’ Week of Action on Food, and many are emphasizing the moral imperative of addressing hunger and food insecurity.
However, in many places, funding allocated to support millions of vulnerable people needing lifesaving assistance is being reduced, due to the lack of resources or changed priorities.
“People of faith are committed to stand and act with the World Food Program, to protect people’s livelihoods, wellbeing and daily sustenance for all, especially for those experiencing the harsh reality of hunger, during these difficult times,” said Sauca. ”
We pray for solidarity among the world’s nations that such support is extended to the most marginalized communities within each society.”
During the Churches’ Week of Action on Food, being observed this year from Oct. 11-17, the WCC, Christian Conference of Asia, and Pacific Conference of Churches are inviting all people of goodwill to attend an online prayer service on October 16, World Food Day, in the different regions.
EU commissioner Mariya Gabriel has tested positive for Covid-19, she said yesterday, the first top Brussels official known to have caught the coronavirus.
Gabriel, the EU commissioner for research and innovation, had already announced on Monday that she would self-isolate after a member of her team tested positive for the virus.
“After a first negative #COVID19 test on Monday, my second one is positive,” said Gabriel, who is Bulgaria’s representative to the 27-member EU executive.
“I have been in self-isolation since Monday and continue staying at home, following the established regulations. Keep yourself healthy and stay safe!” she said.
The EU commission is headquartered in the Belgian capital of Brussels, which is currently one of the worst hit cities in Europe by the virus, along with Madrid and Paris.
The commission’s president Ursula von der Leyen on Monday briefly went into self-isolation after a close contact with a positive case, but her two tests came back negative.
Last month the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, was forced to postpone a European leaders’ summit for a week after a security guard in his team tested positive.
“My mum thought it was something spiritual from her side of the family. So they took me for prayers with the hope that I’d be cured of whatever was wrong,” he told CNN.
“My aunt advised my dad that they should take me to camp for prayers against evil spirits. I remember I was laying down on the ground and people were all over me praying. I didn’t want to react but the prayer wasn’t working,” Godwin said.
He added that when they realized on the way back home from camp that the expected healing didn’t happen, they brought in another pastor to pray for him at home.
In parts of Nigeria, it is common to attribute mental illness to supernatural factors such as witchcraft or repercussion for sins against God, according to a report in the Integrative Journal of Global Health.
At the time Godwin was 18 and he recalls being overwhelmed with fear, hearing voices and crying in distress.
“I felt irritation all over my body. The sound of the fan in the room made me paranoid, I felt like it was rolling too fast and it would cut off and kill me. There were so many confusing voices talking to me in my head,” he said.
Godwin’s family doctor eventually referred him to a specialist after hearing about his symptoms, “that’s when we went to the psychiatric hospital,” he said.
In his case, he was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and placed on drugs. “I was so relieved to know what was going on with me. My parents too were relieved knowing it was nothing spiritual,” he said.
Mental health illness is so poorly understood that in some cases, people with these conditions are chained and locked up in unorthodox facilities across the country including traditional healing and religious centers.
According to a 2019 report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), people in these facilities are subjected to different forms of abuse including force-feeding them medicine and herbs and whipping as part of their treatment.
A 22-year-old woman who suffered a mental health crisis after her mother’s death told the human rights group that she had been held captive in a church for five months and denied food as part of a “spiritual cleanse” for her condition.
“I was tied with chains for three days straight so I could fast. For the three days, I had no food or water. It wasn’t my choice, but the pastor said it was good for me. Sometimes if they say I should fast and I drink water or take food, they (the church staff) put me on a chain,” she said in the report.
Similarly, an Islamic faith healer in northern Nigeria told HRW that he whips patients, leaving scars on their body, as a way to ‘treat’ them.
“If you are treating someone who is mentally unwell and he acts in a way that is causing a disturbance, you will have to treat him. Some of them might be talking to themselves or suffer from lack of sleep…. For some of them, getting enough sleep will help. For others, we need to whip them — once, twice … up to seven times,” he said.
Dr. Nancy Orjinta, a resident psychiatrist at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Lagos, said keeping people with mental illness in such facilities can impact their health negatively and damage their self-esteem.
“I have seen patients who were chained for months battle with self-esteem issues. Keeping someone locked up will not only harm them physically, but they will start to feel low and dehumanized too,” she said. She added that such conditions can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), an anxiety disorder caused by traumatic or distressing events.
Not enough psychiatrists
One of the reasons people visit religious and traditional healing centers for mental illness is a lack of understanding of mental health issues in the country, according to Dr. Orjinta.
Dr. Orjinta, told CNN that in many cases, Nigerians seek mental health care from unorthodox places, especially religious centers before considering going to the hospital.
However, delaying mental care by not immediately going to hospital prolongs the time the patient stays without appropriate care and “may create the worst outcome for the patient as they have more symptoms,” she said.
“There is still a stigma around mental illness. People perceive it in a negative light and as a result they don’t want to address it if they have symptoms. They want to keep on hiding it,” she explained.
She also added there aren’t enough mental health professionals in the country, making it difficult to access mental health care. For example, with a population of more than 200 million people, there are only 250 practicing psychiatrists in the country.
“There is a disproportionate sharing of mental health professionals, we don’t really have them in rural areas. And if someone lives in such areas without mental health care, of course, they will find alternatives for care like traditional healers or churches,” Dr. Orjinta explained.
Clampdown on rehabilitation centers
In recent times, authorities in Nigeria have rescued hundreds of people held under inhumane conditions in a clampdown on religious rehabilitation centers.
In September 2019, for example, police rescued more than 300 men and boys from an Islamic school in Kaduna, northern Nigeria. Some of them told the police they had been sexually abused and tortured by their teachers.
But mental health advocates say this is not enough.
Hauwa Ojeifo, a mental health activist and coach told CNN that Nigeria needs strong legislation that will set the standards for psychiatric treatment.
Data on mental health in the country is hard to come by, but an estimated 20-30% of the country’s population is suffering from mental disorders, according to a 2016 report in the Annals of Nigerian Medicine Journal.
And in 2017, a World Health Organization report found that Nigerians have the highest incidences of depression in Africa, with more than 7 million people in the country suffering from depression.
Ojeifo who is also the founder of She Writes Woman, a non-profit focused on providing mental health support in the country said she wants a mental health bill that will encourage mental awareness in the country to be passed.
She described Nigeria’s 1958 Lunacy Act, the current legislation governing mental health in the country as “outdated” and “discriminatory.”
Under the act, people with mental health conditions are allowed to be detained, even without the provision of medical treatment.
“I don’t just want any mental health bill to be passed. I am very particular about the content of the bill too. I want it to be respectful and accommodate the rights of persons with mental health conditions,” she told CNN.
Mental health awareness
Mental health awareness is needed to combat the widespread use of religious and traditional healing centers for mental care, according to Dr. Orjinta.
“The media needs to come in to report mental health without framing it in a bad or scary way like some do. The same way you can say someone has a problem with his leg, you should be able to say someone has a brain problem. It should be like every other illness,” she said.
She added that she is optimistic Nigeria will eventually get to a place where there is a minimal stigma regarding mental health. “It won’t be drastic and it will require many people like the government, media, and religious institutions putting in the effort, but I am optimistic.”
Godwin who was initially taken to church for prayers says care outside medical facilities should not be the first resort.
“There are drugs and medical facilities that can help with mental illness. I am not saying people who attribute it to spirituality are wrong, but I’d say there are other ways. Medicine is capable,” he said.
He added that in his case, he wished he was taken to the hospital first for quicker diagnosis, before being subjected to religious healing.
In a move sure to titillate those who believe we may be living in a simulation, the European Union is set to create “digital twins” of the planet — massive simulations incorporating the Earth’s natural systems as well as human activity. The moonshot project, called Destination Earth (or “DestinE”), will unfold over the coming decade, aiming to leverage ultra-high-resolution modeling to inform and demonstrate the impact of European environmental policies and usher in a new era of sustainable development.
“[DestinE] will unlock the potential of digital modelling of the Earth’s physical resources and related phenomena such as climate change, water/marine environments, polar areas and the cryosphere, etc. on a global scale to speed up the green transition and help plan for major environmental degradation and disasters,” the European Commission wrote in a statement.
The Commission sees a number of high-profile uses for DestinE: monitoring the health of planetary systems like the climate, the cryosphere and land use through high-precision simulations; improving modeling and predictive capabilities for extreme weather events; supporting EU policy-making and implementation; and generally reinforcing Europe’s abilities in simulation, modeling, analytics, AI and HPC.
The “heart” of DestinE, the Commission says, will be a federated, cloud-based modeling and simulation platform. Users of the cloud platform will be able to access services, models, scenarios, simulations, forecasts and visualizations – and will even be able to develop their own applications and integrate their own data.
DestinE falls under the umbrellas of the European Commission’s Green Deal and Digital Strategy programs, which respectively aim to ensure a sustainable economy for the EU and position the EU as a global player in a fair, democratic digital economy. This also links DestinE with the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (JU), a concerted HPC effort currently comprising 32 member states across the European Union that just announced plans for an €8 billion investment in supercomputing.
Powering the digital twin and other simulations under DestinE will, of course, be a compute-intensive task. DestinE will be powered by one of three pre-exascale supercomputers in the works through EuroHPC: the LUMI system, which will be hosted by CSC in Finland; the MareNostrum 5 system, which will be hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center; or the Leonardo system, which will be hosted by the CINECA consortium in Italy. The three systems – which range in expected cost from €120 million to €151.4 million – are planned for installation in late 2020 to early 2021.
This aligns with the plan announced by the European Commission, which is to ready and implement DestinE beginning in 2021 and continuing across the following seven to ten years. The first steps are already in motion: following an initial stakeholder meeting last November, the Commission’s Joint Research Centre is preparing a report on DestinE’s use cases (expected this month) and hosting two workshops on the first of DestinE’s digital twins: one on a digital twin for extreme weather (October 21st) and one on a digital twin for climate change adaptation (October 22nd).
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The Holy See Press Office published on Saturday the Decree of the President of the Governorate, Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, with which amendments were made to Law XVIII of 8 October 2013 on transparency, supervision and financial information.
The changes are part of the reform process requested by Pope Francis in order to make the management of Vatican economic resources more and more accurate and transparent.
This was discussed with Carmelo Barbagallo, President of the Financial Information Authority (FIA), the competent institution of the Holy See and Vatican City State in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing.
Q: Dr. Barbagallo, can you tell us what is the purpose of these changes, and why it was necessary to make them?
Before entering into the merits of your question, I would like to say a few words about the importance of Law XVIII introduced in 2013. This legislation constitutes the stance of the Holy See and Vatican City State in the prevention and combating of money laundering and terrorist financing. It is a text in continuous and progressive evolution, which takes into account the Community sources of reference on the subject – which the Holy See has undertaken to transpose with the Monetary Convention between the European Union and Vatican City State of 2009 – and the characteristics of its jurisdiction. It makes it possible to constantly align the Vatican’s legislation with the best international standards. This work would not have been possible without the active participation of all interested parties: the Secretariat of State, the Governorate of Vatican City State, the Secretariat for the Economy, as well as the Financial Information Authority. I, therefore, take this opportunity to thank everyone.
In reference to your question, with the changes now introduced, the Fifth Directive of the European Union on the prevention and fight against money laundering and terrorist financing has been transposedand some of the rules referring to the Fourth Directive have been improved. I would also like to emphasize how the opportunity has been taken to transfer into this law the important progress made in recent years to make the supervisory activity more and more effective, first of all through an intensification of the mechanisms of collaboration between the different Authorities involved.
Q: This is, therefore, a new step by the Vatican in the direction of transparency and increasingly intense supervision of activities of a financial nature….
Yes. The latest amendments to Law XVIII are part of an overall strategy aimed at making the management of Vatican finances increasingly transparent, within a framework of intensive and coordinated checks. It is a path that has been accelerated since 2010, with the creation of the Financial Information Authority, and which finds its most recent and significant expression in the Motu Proprio of June 1 and the Ordinance of August 19, 2020, concerning respectively, the procedures for the award of public contracts and the obligation to report suspicious activities by Voluntary Organizations and Legal Persons.
Consistent with this path, Law XVIII has further strengthened the defense mechanisms and controls of entities that, in the performance of their noble purposes, are in various ways affected by financial flows (non-profit organizations, legal persons, voluntary organizations, public authorities).
Q: The Pope reiterated something last Thursday when he received the experts of Moneyval: that measures are needed to protect a “clean finance” to prevent merchants from “speculating in that sacred temple that is humanity”…
It is a fundamental duty of every system to protect and defend the dignity of every person. In this context, prudent management and effective control are not only legal but also moral duties.
This is even more true when it is the flow of money that is subject to supervision: Movements that may be at the service of a just cause, but may sometimes derive from illegal activities to be “cleaned up” or directed to sow terror. The awareness of potential threats and vulnerabilities, the effectiveness of controls, the transparency of financial choices also help to avoid risks that could affect the missionary and charitable activities of the Catholic Church.
For my part, I am convinced that the changes made to this Law, as well as all the regulations enacted in recent years, can demonstrate, both internally and to external observers, the firm commitment to a matter in which the Church takes an uncompromising position.
Taiwan celebrates its National Day on October 10, the day is also more commonly known as “double tenth day”. It commemorates the start of the 1911 Wuchang Uprising in China. It is a day when Taiwanese people both at home and abroad celebrate.
Taiwan wants to have “meaningful dialogue” with China on an equal basis, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Saturday, extending an olive branch at a time of heightened military tension with Beijing, which claims the island as sovereign Chinese territory.
Democratic Taiwan has come under increasing pressure from Beijing, which has ramped up air force activity near the island in the past few weeks, including crossing the Taiwan Strait’s sensitive mid line that normally serves as an unofficial buffer zone.
China says it is responding to “collusion” between Washington and Taipei, angered at growing US support for the self-governed island. Beijing views this a precursor to Taiwan declaring formal independence, a red line for China.
Speaking at National Day celebrations, Tsai described the situation in the Taiwan Strait as “quite tense”. This, along with disputes in the South China Sea, a China-India border conflict and China’s crackdown in Hong Kong, showed democracy and peace in the region were facing big challenges, she said.
If Beijing can heed Taiwan’s voice and jointly facilitate reconciliation and peaceful dialogue, regional tension can surely be resolved, she added. “As long as the Beijing authorities are willing to resolve antagonisms and improve cross-strait relations, while parity and dignity are maintained, we are willing to work together to facilitate meaningful dialogue,” Tsai said.
“Our commitment to our sovereignty and democratic values will not change, but we will also maintain strategic flexibility and be responsive to changes,” she said, without elaborating.
There was no immediate reaction from China, which cut off a formal talks mechanism in 2016 after Tsai first won office.
Earlier this week, China was accused by Taiwan of trying to impose censorship in India after its embassy in New Delhi advised journalists to observe the “one-China” principle when newspapers carried advertisements for Taiwan’s national day.
China’s hackles were raised on Wednesday by advertisements placed in leading Indian newspapers by Taiwan’s government to mark the democratic, Chinese-claimed island’s national day. The advertisement carried a photograph of President Tsai and hailed India, a fellow democracy, as a natural partner of Taiwan.
China made its displeasure evident in an e-mail sent by its embassy on Wednesday night to journalists in India. “Regarding the so-called forthcoming ‘National Day of Taiwan’, the Chinese Embassy in India would like to remind our media friends that there is only one China in the world, and the Government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legitimate government representing the whole of China,” the embassy said.
“We hope Indian media can stick to Indian government’s position on Taiwan question and do not violate the ‘One China’ principle.
“In particular, Taiwan shall not be referred to as a ‘country (nation)’ or ‘Republic of China’ or the leader of China’s Taiwan region as ‘President’, so as not to send the wrong signals to the general public.”
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu scoffed at Beijing’s advice to Indian media.
“India is the largest democracy on Earth with a vibrant press & freedom-loving people. But it looks like communist #China is hoping to march into the subcontinent by imposing censorship. #Taiwan’s Indian friends will have one reply: GET LOST!” he said in a tweet.
In what may rile China further, Taiwan’s foreign minister doubled down on its retort on the eve of its national day.
“Our hearts are touched in #Taiwan by this wonderful support. Thank you! When I say I like India, I really mean it. “Get Lost”,” Taiwan’s foreign ministry tweeted.
New Delhi has no formal diplomatic relations with Taipei, but both sides have close business and cultural ties.
“Every year on Taiwan National Day, we honour our beloved country and people, people whose concerted efforts mean that we’re able to gather and celebrate together in 2020, just as we do every year. The whole world can see that Taiwan finds strength in unity… On this day, we celebrate our nation’s hard-earned freedoms and democratic achievements,” she said in the run up to the big day.
Greeting a delegation from the Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy in the Vatican on Saturday, the Pope told them that the poetry of Dante Alighieri is just as relevant today as it was 700 years ago.
He said this “extraordinary exponent of a golden age of European civilization” has the ability to resonate with people. “Teenagers, for example…if they have the opportunity to approach Dante’s poetry in a way that is accessible to them, inevitably find, on the one hand, all the distance between the author and his world; and yet, on the other, they feel a surprising resonance.”
Pope Francis explained that “this happens especially where the fascination of the true, the beautiful and the good, ultimately the fascination of God makes its powerful attraction felt.”
Exile and inspiration
The Pope noted that “Ravenna, for Dante, is the city of the “last refuge”. The poet spent his remaining years there and completed his work the Divine Comedy, which included the final part called Paradise.
Pope Francis recalled Dante’s period of exile – the result of being on the losing side of a battle – which he said “so marked his existence and also inspired his writing.”
The poet Mario Luzi, said the Pope, “has highlighted the value of the upheaval and superior discovery that the experience of exile has reserved for Dante. This makes us immediately think of the Bible, the exile of the people of Israel to Babylon.”
Similarly, for Dante, he pointed out, “exile was so significant that it became a key to interpreting not only his life but the ‘journey’ of every man and woman in history and beyond.”
Invitation to hope
Dante’s death in Ravenna took place on the same day as the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.
Pope Francis noted that, in 1965, on the occasion of the seventh centenary of Dante’s birth, St. Paul VI donated to Ravenna a golden cross for his tomb.
“That same cross, on the occasion of this centenary,” he continued, “will shine again in the place that preserves the mortal remains of the Poet. May it be an invitation to hope, that hope of which Dante is a prophet.”
Pope Francis expressed the hope that the celebrations for the seventh centenary of the death of the “supreme Poet”, “will stimulate us to revisit his work [The Divine Comedy] so that, made aware of our condition as exiles, we allow ourselves to be motivated to that path of conversion.”
“Dante, in fact, invites us once again to rediscover the lost or clouded sense of our human journey,” he said.
In conclusion, the Pope drew inspiration from St Paul VI’s invitation “to enrich ourselves with Dante’s experience to cross the many dark woods of our land and happily make our pilgrimage through history, to reach the goal dreamed and desired by every man: ‘the love that moves the sun and other stars.’”
Apart from reality shows,Sana Khan was featured in many Hindi and regional language films. Photo Courtesy: NDTV/Telly Chakkar
Indian actress of Big Boss fame Sana Khan has bid goodbye to Bollywood and her acting career in order to spend her life “in the service of humanity” and following the orders of her “Creator”.
The announcement follows on the heels of Sana Khan’s messy and much publicised break-up with dancer Melvin Louis earlier this year.
The 33-year old actress made the announcement in Hindi, English and Urdu, where she mentioned how grateful she is for whatever she was able to achieve in her career so far.
“Today I am talking to you standing at a crucial juncture of my life. For years, I have been living the Showbiz (film industry) life, and during this time I have been blessed with all kinds of fame, honour and wealth from my fans for which I am grateful to them,” Khan wrote on social media.
Thanking her fans for their immense love and support during all these years in her statement, the actress said: “But for a few days now, I have been possessed of the realization that: Is the real purpose of man’s coming into this world only to chase wealth and fame?”
Sana Khan’s detailed post of her quitting the industry shared on social media. Photo Courtesy: Timesnownews.com
“Isn’t it a part of his/her duty to spend his/her life in the service of those who are needy and helpless? Shouldn’t a person think that he/she could die at any moment? And what will happen to him after he/she is no more? I have been searching for answers to these two questions for a long period of time, especially the second question as to what will happen to me after my death?,” she said in her post.
Following the announcement, religious scholar Maulana Taqi Usmani congratulated her for “setting an example of courage and bravery”.
Taking to Twitter, the scholar said: “Congratulations to Bollywood actress Sana Khan for turning her life towards the pleasure of Allah Almighty and setting an example of courage and determination.”
“May Allah Almighty grant her perfect perseverance and help her step by step and help her in this world and the hereafter,” he added.
Prolific career
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p class=””>Apart from reality shows, Khan was featured in many Hindi and regional language films.
According to Indian media, she made her debut in Bollywood with “Yehi Hai High Society” in 2005 and went on to star in movies like “Halla Bol”, “Jai Ho”, “Wajah Tum Ho” and “Toilet: Ek Prem Katha.” She also acted in Tamil movies like Silambattam”.
Khan also participated in reality shows such as “Bigg Boss” (season six) and “Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 6”.
