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The Presidency of Turkish Religious Affairs provided 7,000 religious books, including copies of the Holy Quran translated into Spanish, to Muslims in Argentina in an effort to support them in learning Islam from authentic sources.A book handover ceremony was held…

The Umm Abiha Humanitarian Foundation, peace be upon her, affiliated with the Shirazi Religious Authority in the holy city of Karbala, has provided aid to the Shias in Yemen.The foundation stated in a statement that the initiative comes within its…

The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, expressed its grave concern about the acts of violence practiced by the Russian authorities against the protesters.The organization stated, in a statement received by Shiawaves, that it had seen documented news that the security…

Imam Ali Holy Shrine has begun hanging black banners around the courtyard in commemoration of the demise anniversary of Lady Um al-Banin, peace be upon her.The Embroidery Division at the Holy Shrine has completed sewing and embroidering black banners in…

A mosque near the Denmark-Germany border suffered an Islamophobic attack when someone wrote insulting articles on its walls, an official at the facility said Saturday.Hursit Tokay, the president of the mosque association, told Anadolu Agency that he left the Aabenraa…

In a joint letter, 12 international and Egyptian human rights organizations called on the European Union to put pressure on Egypt to make a change in the human rights file, and to take measures towards what it described as Egypt’s…

Authorities in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Kaduna said Saturday that a group of unidentified gunmen attacked two local government-controlled areas in the state and killed six people, while eight others sustained varying degrees of injuries.The gunmen, suspected to be bandits,…

Members of the European Parliament sent a letter to the European Union Minister of Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell before his meeting with the Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs next week, in which they expressed their concern about the deteriorating human…

A group of lawyers, NGOs and religious bodies from 13 countries have submitted formal complaints to the United Nations Human Rights Council (OHCHR), calling for action against France’s “breadth of state abuse against Muslims” stretching back more than two decades.The…

Eleven members of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), including the commander of the regiment, were martyred, yesterday evening, when a terrorist attack claimed by ISIS took place in the Iraqi province of Salah al-Din.An Iraqi security source stated that ISIS…