At least eight civilians are killed and 20 others injured in a Saudi airstrike on a hospital north of Yemen as Saudi Arabia continues to carry out deadly airstrikes against the impoverished Arab country in defiance of a ceasefire.
AhlulBayt News Agency - At least 25 civilians have been killed and 20 others injured in a Saudi airstrike on a hospital north of Yemen as Saudi Arabia continues to carry out deadly airstrikes against the impoverished ...
All Egyptian Haj pilgrims will have to travel by air in 2011 as they did last year, an Egyptian official has said.“No Haj pilgrim will be traveling by sea this year,” Executive Chairman of the Egyptian Haj Mission Maj. Gen. Salah Hashim told Arab News on Tuesday.“The plan to ferry pilgrims by ship has been abandoned because no shipping company has come forward to ferry them to Saudi Arabia and back after the Egyptian Ministry of Interior ...
In a new crime that reveals US-Zionist desecration of Islamic sanctities and disparage the feelings of more than one Billion Muslims, foreign troops in Afghanistan burned copies of the Holy Quran in the Bagram US military airbase.
The angry protesters on Tuesday held protest rallies in Kabul as well as outside the US Bagram Airbase and chanted anti-US slogans, demanding the trial of the perpetrators of the desecrating act.
At least one ...
As Bahrain awaits the outcome of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry report, Bahraini human rights groups have released their own report documenting the brutal crushing of the Arab Spring protests in Bahrain.This report documents the violations in Bahrain since February 14th, although crucial to note that due to lack of funding and manpower it was difficult to document all the cases that have occurred. This 87 page report gives ...
Bahrain has suspended all activities by the country’s largest Shia political group and frozen its assets, the Bahraini Justice Ministry says.
The ministry announced in a statement on Tuesday that the kingdom suspended all activities by the al-Wefaq opposition group in the Persian Gulf country. Al-Wefaq’s Secretary General Sheikh Ali Salman has been in prison since December 2014 on charges of attempting to overthrow the regime ...
A British tourist, who cursed a vendor by calling him, the Muslims of Pakistan and Prophet Mohammad [PBUH] unfriendly, has been fined Dh5,000. The Dubai Court of Appeal yesterday convicted the 40-year-old Briton, A.G., for the offences.
"The court has upheld the primary judgment [Dh5,000 fine] and rejected the defendant's appeal," said Presiding Judge Rashid Al Sumairi upon pronouncing yesterday's judgment in courtroom 22.
According to the ...
Hujjat ul Islam wal Muslaimeen Sarfehani the cultural advisor of Iran’s religious and charity affairs department, while conversing with the reporter of Shabestan, said that there is a need to benefit from the blessed environment of Imam Zada in order to establish unity among Islamic society. Therefore keeping in view this opportunity; it has been finalized to organize Quranic sittings in the sanctuaries of Imam Zada situated in the areas of ...
Muslims and Christians will discuss the future of the Middle East in a joint conference to be held in the Lebanese capital Beirut. The coming conference titled "Muslim-Christian Cooperation and the Future of the Middle East" is to be held as a joint move of the Iranian Councilor and the Interfaith Dialogue Center.Regarding the recent crisis in the Middle East and Northern Africa, Muslim and Christian thinkers from Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, ...
Name: Jafar Title: As-Sadiq Kunyat: Abu Abdullah Born: at Medina on Monday the 17th Rabi-ul- Awwal 83 A.H. Fathers Name: Imam Muhammad Baqir(A.S.) Mother Name: Umm-e-Farwah Martyred: aged 65 years at Medina on Monday, 25th Shawwal 148 A.H. Poisoned by Mansur Dawaniqi the Abbasid caliph. Buried: at Jannat-ul-Baqi at Medina.
The Holy Imam Jafar-as-Sadiq(A.S.) was the sixth in the succession of the twelve Holy Imams. His epithet was ...
The annual Hajj pilgrimage which will peak on Saturday as the faithful gather in the plain of Mount Arafat, outside Mecca in the kingdom’s west, is the world’s largest annual gathering.Key numbers for the hajj this year:An estimated 2.5 million pilgrims are gathering in Mecca this year -- 1.8 million from abroad and 700,000-800,000 from inside Saudi Arabia.Every Muslim country has a hajj quota of 1,000 pilgrims per million inhabitants and ...
Nearly half of American Muslims say they have experienced racial or religious discrimination over the past year, a new poll has revealed.
According to the survey conducted by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center, a Gallup research hub in the United Arab Emirates, 48 percent of Muslims in America said they had “personally experienced racial or religious discrimination” in the past year, AFP reported on Tuesday.
The poll, which was carried out ahead ...
In a press release issued on Monday by Al-Quds international foundation, Sheikh Qaradawi stressed that the Aqsa Mosque is a red line and the Muslims would not stand idly if the Jews repeated their attacks on the Mosque.
He urged the Palestinians in their occupied land and the Arab peoples in neighboring countries, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, to rise up in defense of the Aqsa Mosque and liberate it from the Jewish ...
-Iraqi demonstrators have gathered in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to protest against the US attempts to prolong its military presence in the Middle Eastern country beyond the 2011 deadline.
More than 20,000 people assembled in Sadr City, a suburb of the Iraqi capital, to send a warning message to the US government that Washington is likely to suffer the consequences of extending its presence in their war-torn country, a Press TV correspondent ...
Hojjat-ol-IslamSeyyed Mahdi Alizade Mousavi, Iranian university and seminary professorexplained unity to ignore the differences between religious denominations and slammed Wahhabism and other fake religions for their divisive efforts.He rejectedunity to mean that all Islamic denominations forget their special religious beliefs and turn to one denomination, saying, "Unity among Islamic denominations is to leave the disagreements, maintain ...
The sentence was issued against Abdullah Mohammed Habib on Thursday. The court was set up in March -- the month, when the government imposed a martial law against the popular revolution in Bahrain.
Late last month, four demonstrators were sentenced to death by a military court for the alleged killing of two police officers during the protests.
Anti-government protesters have been holding peaceful demonstrations across Bahrain since ...
Head of the Islamic Revolution Supporters Society Mahdi Eqrarian said on Tuesday that the second Iranian solidarity convoy will soon be dispatched to Bahrain. He added that several renowned international rights activists would accompany the second convoy, IRNA reported.
On Monday, the first Iranian solidarity convoy left Iran's southern port of Dayyer, located some 1,300 kilometers (807 miles) south of the capital Tehran, a Press TV ...
Shabestan news agency reported that Muhammad Saimlali the representative of Youth Bank, Morocco said that Youth Bank, Morocco was inaugurated in 1977. He said that Youth bank has discussed with the insurance committee dealers and investors for starting Islamic banking and it is decided that the Muslim and Non-Muslim citizens of Belgium will be served through Islamic banking. Daily Alacola reported that the ex-finance minister of Belgium ...
The man set to become Morocco’s first Islamist prime minister said on Friday his government would not try to make women dress more modestly. Abdelilah Benkirane is to lead a coalition government after his Justice and Development Party (PJD) became the latest Islamist movement in the Middle East to win an election in the wake of the “Arab Spring” revolutions. The party is anxious to reassure powerful secularists in the Moroccan ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), A deadly fire claimed the lives of over 115 people on the evening of 3 June 2010 in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh, injuring over 150 local residents. Since the tragic event, The World Federation of Khoja Shia's partnering agency in Bangladesh has been working with the Shia community who was also affected by the fire.
The World Federation of Khoja Shia is sad to learn that 10 Shia Muslims were among those who were ...
Turk has censured anti-Islam propaganda and called on the Muslim world to show solidarity against rising Islamophobia across the Western world.Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that there is a vicious propaganda campaign against Islam by some Western circles.Erdogan was addressing the Second Meeting of Leaders of African Continent Muslim Countries and Societies which opened in Istanbul on Monday. “There are those who use some ...