The Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) stated that Bahraini authorities arbitrarily arrested 20 citizens and launched 16 house raids during fourth week of december 2015.
AhlulBayt News Agency - The Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) stated that Bahraini authorities arbitrarily arrested 20 citizens and launched 16 house raids during fourth week of december 2015.In a statement, BHRS said that the raids it documented took place in "A'ali, ...
San Luis Obispo Muslims in California, USA on Friday celebrated one of the holiest nights of the year with serving iftar meal and engage in special prayers.
Members of the Mosque of Nasreen have gathered weekly for a community Iftar, or breaking of the fast, throughout Ramadan, but the final few nights are especially important. The month of piety marks the time when the Holy Qur'an was revealed to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The ...
Out of 74 million children, in the group of 3-6 years in India, around 20 million did not attend pre-school and most of them belonged to disadvantaged and marginalized sections of the society, a UNICEF report has said.
According to “State of the World Children Report-2016”, released globally by Unicef, around 34 per cent children from Muslim families, 25.9pc from Hindu families and 25.6pc from Christian families did not attend ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Islamic Republic of Iran won the 27th International Holy Qur’an Competitions in Tehran from July 9-14.
Mas’oud Nikdasti and Ali Rajabi topped the event’s recitation and memorizations categories.
Tanzanian Ali Abdollah Davoud-Mohammad and Indonesian Fat’hollah Vahioddin came second and third in the recitation category, respectively.
Mehdi Mohammad Khalil from Iraq and Badr Abdolhafiz Had from Libya ...
The attack came as Syrian Forces presses an offensive against ISIS in the town of Tabqa as part of an assault on the extremist bastion Raqqa. The dawn ISIS attack hit a makeshift camp where some 300 families were waiting to cross into government-held territory in Hasakeh province, in northeastern Syria. "At least five suicide attackers blew themselves up outside and inside a camp for Iraqi refugees and displaced Syrians in Hasakeh province," ...
Senior commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) offered their deep condolences over the martyrdom of Abu Muntadhar al-Muhamadawi, a top commander of Iraq's Badr ...
The bachelor’s program is to focus scientifically on religious, cultural and historical aspects of Islam.
The scientific success of Islamic studies will be reviewed by the university in three years.
Germany announced plans earlier this year to set up institutes for Islamic studies to train new generations of Muslim clerics and religious teachers more attuned to western society, and to exert subtle control over how the country’s growing ...
High profile Scots Muslims have spoken of the racist abuse they and their friends and families have suffered in the wake of the terror attacks across Europe this summer.
Many have had to endure everything from verbal abuse to physical attacks – which are not always reported to the authorities.
Despite this, high profile Muslims were keen to praise the vast majority of Scots who offer support after such incidents.
Scottish Government ...
--Concurrent with the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Ali ibn Hussein Zainul Abedin (AS), a mourning ceremony is slated to be held Sunday night, January 10, in Al-Kawsar Cultural Institute in The Hague.
According to Al-Fajr website, the institute’s information dissemination committee has invited Shia Muslims in the city to attend the spiritual ceremony, which will start at 6 p.m. local time.
Imam Sajjad (AS), the fourth Shia Imam, was ...
“It’s a lot of speakers and I can get some knowledge from great scholars all over the U.S., and to be good examples for Muslims, especially with these circumstances around the world and in the U.S., and to represent Islam in a good way,” Essa said.
“Islam encourages us to work for justice in the society, but what extremists are doing goes directly against the principals of Islam,” said Naeem Baig, president of ...
At least 18 pilgrims have been injured in a crush near Islam’s holiest site, Saudi media say, just over six months after hundreds lost their lives in a tragic stampede during the last year Hajj rituals.
AhlulBayt News Agency - At least 18 pilgrims have been injured in a crush near Islam’s holiest site, Saudi media say, just over six months after hundreds lost their lives in a tragic stampede during the last year Hajj ...
More than a dozen civilians have lost their lives in a powerful bomb explosion that ripped through a residential neighborhood in Iraq’s central province of Karbala.
The Euphrates Operations Command said in a statement released on Monday that the incident took place in the town of Ayn Tamer, located 120 kilometers (74.5 miles) west of the provincial capital city of Karbala, the previous night, when five terrorists clad in explosives-laden ...
- Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei ordered decisive reaction by all Iranian organizations to cases of exorbitant, unconventional wages, and called for unrelenting punitive action on breaking ...
Secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah stressed that cultural and religious relations between Iran and the Islamic resistance movement should further strengthen. Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah made the statement in a meeting with the visiting the Supreme Leader's Representative and Head of the Organization of Oghaf and Charity Affairs Ali Mohammadi. They reviewed regional developments as well as recent victories achieved by the resistance front, ...
FIFA reportedly moved its annual congress to Bahrain from the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur after authorities there withdrew from hosting the event, citing problems with allowing entry visas to some delegates, including officials from the Israeli ...
Religious leaders, scholars and government officials from China and other countries urged Muslims to resist religious extremism and condemn terrorism at a symposium.
Participants from Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan gathered in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, to share their insights on Islam and experience in combating terrorism.
The symposium is hosted by the China Religious ...
-- A 2-day international conference entitled 'Religion and Peaceful Coexistence' kicks off today in the Iranian capital of Tehran.
Religious education in the modern era, religious teaching and international law, minority rights and peaceful coexistence, religion and international challenges, and international relations and the roles of religions are among the most important subjects to be addressed at the conference.
According to ...
