Ramadan prompted Muslims to target Zakat alms on Ukrainian refugees
Russo-Ukrainian War has prompted the largest European refugee crisis since World War II.
Muslims have been considering how their Zakat charitable obligations during Ramadan could deliver an obligation to support Muslim refugees from Ukraine, forced from their home by the Russian invasion.
The war has prompted the largest refugee crises Europe has experienced this century, outweighing the impact of the Syrian civil war. According to the most recent figures from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), more than 4 million refugees have fled to bordering countries and over 2 million Ukrainians have been displaced internally since Russian military forces invaded on February 24.
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Brenda Dionisi