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Implementation of a national project to repair and restore old manuscript copies of the Quran has started in Sudan. According to gf365.co, the Africa House for Printing the Glorious Quran started implementing the plan, titled “Reverence of Quran” on February 10. Old copies of Quran and Quranic manuscripts which need repair are collected from mosques,...

The killing of a six-year-old boy in broad daylight in Saudi Arabia has generated a wave of shock and revulsion and drawn attention to the brutal nature of Wahhabi school of thought which governs the kingdom. The child, identified as Zakariya Bader al-Jabir, was brutally murdered last week by a man - described in some...

Bahrain's security forces have destroyed signs marking the martyrdom anniversary of Hazrat Fatima Zahra, the daughter of Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him and his pure progeny). Local media said Saturday security forces removed black flags and banners put up in public places to commemorate the occasion overnight. Hazrat Fatima is an enormously revered figure,...

Muslims in China's far west region of Xinjiang are being forced to eat pork and drink alcohol at events during the country's Lunar New Year holiday, residents have said. Residents in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture said they were invited to Chinese New Year dinners where pork and alcohol were served. Chinese officials threatened to...

Airstrikes in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province have killed 21 civilians, including women and children, a lawmaker from the region said Sunday. Mohammad Hashim Alkozai said 13 civilians were killed in one strike and eight in another. Both were carried out late Friday in the Sangin district, where heavy fighting is underway between NATO-backed Afghan forces...

Under the sponsorship of the office of the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, may Allah prolong his life, in the city of Lucknow in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India witnessed the commemoration of Fatimiya days. According to the correspondent of Shiawaves, the commemoration continues for three nights at Husseiniyat Jannat Ma’ab in Lucknow...

Indonesia is set to make halal labeling mandatory for consumer products and services this year with the government assuming greater control of the certifying process from the Muslim-majority nation’s Islamic cleric council. Issuing halal certificates to consumer goods from shampoos to toothpaste and cosmetics may net the government about 22.5 trillion rupiah ($1.6 billion) in...

At least 23 security men were killed in different attacks by Taliban terrorists in three provinces of Afghanistan in last 24 hours, said officials on Sunday. At least eight policemen have been killed as a result of an insider attack in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province. Provincial governor's spokesman, Omar Zwak told media that a policeman...

The UN special envoy to Yemen today said the urgency of accessing grain stores trapped in a frontline position in the port city of Hodeidah was increasing as the food was “at risk of rotting”. The World Food Programme grain stores at the Red Sea Mills are enough to feed 3.7 million people for a...

Thailand will free a refugee Bahraini footballer, arrested more than two months ago after Bahrain abandoned its bid to seek his extradition, a prosecutor in the case has said. Monday's decision comes after the 25-year-old footballer Hakeem al-Araibi was jailed for weeks in Bangkok's Klong Prem Remand Prison. Bahrain wanted him returned to serve a...

 Montreal City Council held a ceremony to commemorate memory of the victims of an attack to a mosque in Quebec two years ago. The ceremony hosted members of Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities as well as the director of Imam Shirazi World Foundation. In this event, Ms. Valérie Plante, the Mayor of Montreal said: “We...

The second convention of Iraqi women Quran memorizers will be held in the holy city of Karbala. According to media, the Dar-ol-Quran Center affiliated to the holy shrine of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, is organizing the event. The Basaer Quranic Institute also cooperates in holding the gathering, slated for Saturday, February 9. It...

A Saudi Shia little boy, while on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Medina with his Shia mother, has been barbarously killed due to hatred motives. Shia Rights Watch stated that :with great sorrow and condemnation,  the organization has received the crime of slaughtering the child Zakaria Ahmed in Medina, holding the hardline officials...

A non-governmental rights group says Bahraini officials have revoked the citizenship of hundreds of people after convicting them of alleged terror charges as the Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its crackdown on political dissent in the Gulf kingdom. Javad Firooz, the chairman of the Salam for Democracy and Human Rights group, said in a...

Holy shrines in Iraq, Syria, and Iran in addition to mosques, Husseiniyahs, and Islamic Centers in Islamic and non-Islamic countries are marking the martyrdom anniversary of Lady Fatima al-Zehra, peace be upon her. The lovers of Ahlulbait, peace be upon them, are holding mourning memorial ceremonies that include religious sermons revealing the unfairness the Imam,...

Annaba cultural and media Institute in holy Karbala held a conference under the title of (Future of Journalism in Iraq). This conference hosted the chairman of Arab Journalists Association and Iraqi Journalists Association, Mr Moaed Allami. This conference was also attended by the head and members of Krabala media association, as well as academics, journalists,...

The Imam Hussein Shrine has announced the opening of a seminary in the Republic of Mali – West Africa after a delegation from the Imam Hussein Shrine made a visit to the majority-Muslim territories there. Sheikh Ali ElQer’awi – director of the Seminaries Unit at the Imam Hussein Shrine – said, “Within the second proselytization...

A Dutch former far-right MP and right-hand man of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has set tongues wagging in the Netherlands after revealing he has converted and become a Muslim, news reports said Tuesday. For seven years Joram van Klaveren fought a relentless campaign in the Lower House against Islam in the Netherlands as a lawmaker...