There has been an unprecedented response for the online
registration of the international Qur’an competition, which will be conducted
in Bahrain.
The number of contestants, who registered online, stood at 101,554
over the last two months, according to the organizers.
Contestants are registering their names for the event through
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, said Sheikh Abdullah Al-Amri, director
of the department for Qur’an affairs at Bahrain’s Ministry of Justice.
He said that 97 percent of them are men, and added that the last
date for registration for the largest online Qur’an competition is September 5.
The maximum age of contestants has been raised to 40 instead of 25,
he said.
According to Al-Amri, the largest number of contestants registered
for the ‘Munjamul Qura Prize’ competition is from Saudi Arabia, and it was
followed by other Gulf states and Egypt
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