Egypt has imposed heavy restrictions on an Asian aid convoy, which is seeking to break a crippling Israeli blockade on the impoverished Gaza Strip. Egyptian authorities have prevented some convoy members, including Iranians and some Jordanians, from crossing into the besieged Palestinian territory and have refused to allow the convoy, which is worth some 1 million dollars of aid, to be delivered to Gaza through the Rafah border ...
-- Careful investigation of Imam Hussein’s (AS) uprising would help to shed light on some of its aspects which have so far been overlooked, Iran cultural attaché in Tunisia told IQNA.
Sayyed Hassan Esmati said that the event of Ashura was one which would never be uninteresting “provided that we take a more profound look at this event and present its teachings to the new generations with a language appealing to them.”
He also stressed ...
Shabestan news agency reported that Dr. Saeed Khalid Al-Hassan the secretary general of pro-Quds conference, while alarming the dominance of Zionists culture inculcate the minds of the students of Quds, said that 56% students of Quds are studying in Israeli schools and the Israeli version of history has been taught, which is a very serious matter and this issue requires special attention.Dr. Khalid Al-Hassan added that 56% students of Quds ...
Hla Thein, the vice chairman of the National Democratic Party for Development (NDPD), said on Friday that over 100 Muslims have lost their lives over the past week in clashes between extremist Buddhists and Rohingyas.
The deadly violence peaked on Tuesday night, but people have been killed every day this week, said the leader of the Muslim political party that won four seats in Myanmar’s 2010 election.
Tensions have heightened across ...
According to Ahlul Bayt News Agency – ABNA.ir – Two conferences held in The Philippines on the occasion of birthday of Imam Mahdi (aj.t.f.s).
The two conference held in Zamboanga and Basilan cities in the name of "Mahdism" by the participence of about 2000 of Shia and Muslim University Professors, Local Authorities and the people of seven region of North and South of The Philippines.
Zamboanga and Basilan are the two big cities with large ...
Vatican delegation became familiar with Muslims’ status in the Republic of Uzbekistan.The delegation took part in a meeting attende by Othman Khan Alimov, Mufti of the Republic and Head of the Muslim Board of Uzbekistan and Artiq Beik Yusufov, head of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs in the country.Members of the delegation headed by Archbishop Ivan Yurkovich, Pope’s representative in Uzbekistan, visited the library of Imam ...
Reports said on Friday that the Syrian army troops and Hezbollah forces opened their way into the strategic town of Khan Touman, and after fierce clashes with the terrorists, the town came under full control of the government forces early on Saturday.
The army and the resistance forces killed hundreds of the foreign-backed terrorists in the battle over capturing Khan Touman.
The army and the Hezbollah Friday launched a fresh round of joint ...
A roadside bomb has killed at least four small children from the same family in the southern Zabul province, an official said Saturday. Wazir Mohammad Jawadi, a district administrator, said another child from the same family was wounded in the blast, which took place late Friday. Afghanistan is inundated with mines and other explosives left over from decades of war. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, an official said Afghan security forces repelled an ...
Bayt Agency) - Thousands of Muslims on Friday observed Muharram by taking out taziya (Mourning) processions, flagellating themselves and offering special prayers.Slogans of "Ya Hussein" rend the air as Shias took part in the ceremonial mourning commemorating the martyrdom of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein with flags and replicas of Hussein's tomb in their hands. Sunnis offered prayers, observed fasts and distributed alms on the ...
The Center for Quran Translation in the holy city of Qom has collected the translations of the holy Quran into 145 languages .
According to Hojjat-ol-Islam Mohammad Naqdi, head of the center, it was set up in 1994 by Ministry of Endowments and Charity Affairs in cooperation with Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.
“During the 17 years of activity, the center has collected over 6000 copies of the Holy Quran in various languages to ...
During Islam's holy month of Ramadan, believers abstaining from food and drink during daylight hours, break their fast with the iftar evening meal.
From inside a coal mine in Bosnia and Herzegovina to a military training camp in Damascus, photographers have produced images capturing the daily practice just after sunset in different countries during Ramadan, which ends this week.
The meals vary from simple plates of watermelon and cheese in a ...
--The annual meeting of researchers and investigators of Hajj was held on November 28 by Hajj Research Center of Umm Al-Qura University in Mena region.
According to Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper, the meeting was attended by Valid bin Hussein Abul Faraj, president of the university, Samer bin Hamdan Al-Harbi, head of the research center and a number of Hajj researchers and scholars.
Representatives of the healthcare department, media, environment, ...
To commemorate the Martyrdom of Hazrat Abass Alamdar various mourning processions of ALAM has been carried out from different villages of Kargil toward the Kargil Town.
As the Moon of First Muharram has been seen one day earlier from the rest of the world and has been duly announced by the Huzia Almiya Isna Ashriya Kargil the Processions of Ninth Muharram has been carried out on the 15th of December 2010.
On this day Shia Community ...
--Moscow is set to expand dialogue with the Muslim world, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.
Medvedev made his comments in a message to the Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group forum in Kuwait.
"Your activity helps form a joint alternative to radicalism and extremism which has neither religious nor national identity," the Russian leader said, adding that the forum contributed to the "establishment of harmonious ...
He added that one of the major causes of the spread of irreligiosity and atheism in the Islamic world is that some Muslim youth do not have the support for firm thinking and belief and cannot assess what they hear, especially since those who spread atheism spread their ideas with simple and comprehensible explanations for the youth.
In another part of his speech, Sheik Ahmad Al-Tayyeb said that some so-called international human rights ...
awareness about the life of infallible Imam is an important and spiritual act and this international conference aims to increase the knowledge about these figures and to declare the characteristics and dealings of these great people as ideal. He added that national conference of Imam Hassan Mujtaba (A.S) will take place in accordance with his martyrdom on 28th of Safar in the Holy sanctuary of martyrs. Hujjat ul Islam Gairali said that the ...
Ashraf al-Qader, the director of Public Relations and Information Department in Gaza’s Health Ministry, said "infant incubators, dialysis machines, hematology laboratories, cardiac catheterization units, ICUs, in addition to diagnostic radiology units will be prone to the drug deficiency."
He added that "the paucity of medicines reached its peak in March, whereas 186 varieties of drugs as well as 200 varieties of medical disposables have ...
Office of senior cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi in a press release gave explanations about the invitation by the senior Saudi clerics extended to Ayatollah Makarem to attend a debate session with them.
The explanations came after the some Saudi websites reported that senior Saudi cleric Sheikh Abdollah bin Soleiman has said that the senior Saudi clerics are ready to take part in debate sessions with Shiite clerics in Saudi Arabia ...
GUNMEN in southern Thailand killed on Wednesday three Muslim men, including a religious teacher, shortly after they met military officials at an army base, police said.
More than 4,300 people, both Muslims and Buddhists, have been killed in Thailand's deep south bordering Malaysia in six years of unrest blamed on Muslim separatist insurgents.
The gunmen ambushed a van carrying the religious teacher and two Muslim politicians in Narathiwat ...
The session was held on Monday (May 21, 2012) at the University of Quranic Sciences.
In her opening speech, Masoumeh Yazdan Panah said, “There are no real translators of the holy Quran in the world. Frankly speaking, no one has managed to present a real translation of the book in any languages in the world. ‘Translator’ is a term erroneously applied for the one who presents divine words in a different language. We, translators, are still ...
