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The Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, issued a statement of condolence to the Islamic nation on the passing of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Saeed al-Hakeem. The statement read: In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,…

The Islamic world and the lovers of the Ahlulbayt, peace be upon them, lost yesterday, the twenty-fifth of Muharram, the great religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Saeed al-Hakeem, due to a sudden cardiac arrest, leaving the hearts of many…

Shahana Hanif, the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants and community organizer, made history last month when she became the first Muslim woman elected to New York City Council, one of the first South Asian reps, and first woman of color to…

Nigerian police say gunmen have abducted more than 70 students in the country’s northwest, in the latest in a series of school attacks targeting pupils.Zamfara state police spokesman Mohammed Shehu said in a statement that a large group of attackers…

An American restaurant chain fired an assistant manager at a company site in Missouri for assaulting a Muslim woman and removing her hijab.The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) had called for the dismissal of the assistant manager, and reported that…

A member of the cultural committee of the Taliban terrorist movement, Anamullah Semenkani, announced that the movement’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, will become the head of the new Afghan government.“There is no doubt about the presence of Hibatullah Akhundzada in…

The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) presented a letter of recognition to the Center for Cataloging and Information Systems of the Library and Manuscripts House at al-Abbas Holy Shrine, only one of four libraries in the world…

The house of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, in the holy city of Qom, held a mourning ceremony in memory of the tragic tragedy of Samarra, the bombing of al-Askariyain Holy Shrine.The ceremony was attended…

Prisoners in the notorious Jaw prison in Bahrain announced their entry into an open hunger strike to protest the deteriorating conditions and ill-treatment inside the prison.Sada al-Bahrain website stated that the prisoners in Building 17 announced the strike in protest…

Almost 33,000 children have been killed and maimed in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, an average of one child every five hours, Save the Children said on Tuesday as the last of international military forces left the war-torn country.New…