Hundreds of people packed a Dearborn Heights mosque last week for an interfaith Ramadan dinner that featured Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders preaching message of unity and tolerance. The event falls on a Jewish day of fasting, an overlap that organizers say highlights commonalities between Jews and Muslims. The two dinners are part of a number of interfaith Ramadan events that have been taking place in metro Detroit. "The message of our ...
--Director of the second Shia TV Channel of India announced that it is going to launch by the Islamic New Year (Muharram 1431).
According to Ava news agency, Indian Shiites will now have access to the second religio-cultural TV channel in the Indian city of Lakanhu, after the first one already established in Mumbai.
Hassan Khan, the network’s Director further added, “The channel was rendered operational in the Feast of Ghadir in the city ...
Militants of Wahabi-Nasabi’s terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba and Taliban riding two vehicles launched gun and rocket attacks on a group of Shia youths in an open ground in Hazara Town.
DIG Operations Quetta Police Hamid Shakeel said the victims were in a neighbourhood park in the town in southwestern Pakistan when they were shot at. The attackers fled, he said.
He confirmed that Eight people have lost their lives in the deadly ...
“Killing homosexuals is the compassionate thing to do” is a dangerous statement wrongly attributed to me and I can see why many people have become offended on hearing such a statement as aired on WFTV. The impression given by WFTV is that I am openly sanctioning the murder of homosexuals. This is wholly false in every sense. Furthermore, the edit and misattribution of my words represents one of the most blatant and reprehensible ...
At least 18 militants of ISIS terrorist group were killed in renewed airstrikes in the northwestern Iraqi city of Mosul, local sources reported on Tuesday. The warplanes bombed three major ISIS strongholds in Mosul and its suburb on Tuesday. “The airstrikes hit an ISIS security center and a training camp in the Qayara district of Mosul,” an informed local source said. “Also, a building for the ISIS Court in the village of ...
CALCUTTA, India (AP) -- Normal railway service resumed across an eastern Indian state on Sunday, two days after a train accident blamed on Maoist rebels that killed 145 people, officials said.
Thirteen cars from a high-speed passenger train derailed and then were hit by an oncoming cargo train in West Bengal state early Friday. Police accuse the rebels of sabotaging the tracks.
The death toll from the accident climbed to 145 on Sunday, said ...
A security source in Kirkuk announced on Monday, that ISIS arrested about 20 of its elements for fleeing from the battle in Baiji in Salahuddin province, while explained that the arrest took place in Hawija southwest of Kirkuk. The source said that “ISIS arrested 20 members of its gunmen in Hawija (55 km southwest of Kirkuk),” noting that, “this happened on the back of the escape of ISIS members from the fighting in Baiji ...
A book entitled “Russia and the world of Islam; historical revision and modern attitudes” by W.Y. Blakernitski and E.W. Zayetsoff and N. U. Ulchenko was published in Russian language in Moscow.
It is a collection of the speeches presented at the scientific international conference held in November 2006 at the Faculty of Orientalism in Russia’s Academy of Sciences.
History of relations of Russia and Turkey has been investigated in ...
British police started investigation into the death of a Muslim cleric who was bludgeoned to death in a children’s playground. The police are examining CCTV footage which shows three men running near the scene of the crime shortly afterwards. Former Imam Jalal Uddin suffered major head injuries as he was walking home after a meal at a friend’s house following evening prayers on Thursday in Rochdale. The 64-year-old was found by a ...
The court was scheduled to hand down the ruling on Monday but now says it will deliver it on April 30. The decision comes after weeks of protest rallies against the controversial Formula One race in the kingdom.The activists arrested in last year's anti-regime protests are convicted of plotting to topple the Manama regime. Prominent human rights campaigner Abdulhadi al-Khawaja is one of them.The activist has been on hunger strike for more than ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Having been reconstructed with the cooperation of 14 countries, the world’s biggest museum of Islamic arts is soon to be inaugurated in Cairo, capital of Egypt.
According to Alyawm Al-Sabeh Newspaper, the reconstruction project was organized by Egypt’s Ministry of Culture at a cost of over 90 million Egyptian liras.
“The museum has 24 sections where ancient historical objects—belonging to different ...
If there is one major power in the world that has consistently fought against Takfiris, in Afghanistan and everywhere else, it is Russia. And, the major power most responsible for the rise of the Taliban and other Takfiri outfits, is the United States, which teamed with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to create the international Takfiri network in order to force the Soviets out of Afghanistan, almost 40 years ago.
Takfiris from Chechnya have done the ...
The 2009 Hajj or holy pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia has come and gone for pilgrims from other parts of the world except pilgrims from Nigeria.
This year, about 90,000 Nigerians participated in the annual act of spiritual cleansing and rejuvenation for muslims in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Again this year, as with our participations in the past decades, Nigerian pilgrims have been left with the short end of the ...
The Khoei Foundation will now train teachers in the fields of religious studies, so that in turn they could spread the teachings of Shia Islam, and help young minds embrace their heritage.
A conference was held this July 14th, at the Khoei Foundation to introduce the program studies and invite scholars and academics to discuss issues of education, and religious ...
According to Ahlul Bayt (A) News Agency – ABNA.ir – football was a beautiful game that connects people into a global village. Unfortunately, football has been tarnished by racism, sexism and politics — which should not be part of such a magnificent sport. Golf, rugby and boxing associations have no problem with the headscarf — it is only the International Federation of Association Football (Fifa) that resists lifting the ban on women ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Shortly after a humanitarian truce went into effect in Yemen, Saudi warplanes struck several areas across the Arab impoverished country, violating the UN-sponsored ceasefire.Al-Manar correspondent in Yemen reported that the Saudi-led warplanes hit Saada, Shabwa and Taiz, few minutes after the truce went into effect.The warplanes also struck a house in Jabal Jarra, a truck loaded with food supplies in al-Arish city in ...
A Western news agency has been offering updated tallies of the victims of a crush outside the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, each time contradicting the official figure that Riyadh has announced and has persistently refused to update since the tragedy. The Associated Press (AP) has been releasing counts based on the official tolls announced by some of the countries whose national died in the September 24 crush in Mina, near ...
The International Organization for Migration says the total number of the asylum seekers entering Greece on their journey to more prosperous countries in Europe topped 62,000 in January. “(It) is many, many times what we saw a year ago in the previous January,” IOM spokesman Joel Millman said on Tuesday, adding that there were more than 360 deaths among the refugees in the waters off Greece, Turkey and Italy during the month. ...
