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Armenia has rejected a request to open up a mosque for the performance of Friday prayers.   The request of reopening Goy Mosque was turned down by the Armenian authorities, despite lobbying attempts made through some embassies. Muslim groups plans…

More than 160 Shia Muslims were martyred during one year due to takfiri terrorist attacks in Pakistan.   Official sources said that among those who got martyred were 3 eminent scholars, 5 doctors, 5 engineers, 3 professors, 5 lawyers, 21…

Saudi education directorates withdrew a primary school’s syllabus book of Islamic teachings after being distributed on Saudi global schools inside the country and abroad.   This comes after receiving criticism over a printed picture for a Shia Sheik on the…

Human Rights Watch has called on the Bahraini regime to release 13 dissidents serving long prison terms in the country.   The deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division said that these men are in…

A new report says that the ISIL Takfiri militants, who are wreaking havoc on Iraq and Syria, are using weapons supplied to them through Saudi channels.   The report, conducted by the London-based small-arms research organization Conflict Armament Research, documented…

Shia Rights Watch Organization expressed its deep concerns over the critical situation that Shia minority in Sudan is experiencing especially after being noticeably targeted financially and morally during the past few days.   SRW representatives in Sudan said that many…

Various cultural and religious sessions are being held on a weekly basis in the office of the Eminent Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, may Allah prolong his life, in the Afghani capital of Kabul.   The sessions, which are held on every…

Postmenopausal women who eat foods higher in potassium are less likely to have strokes and die than women who eat less potassium-rich foods.   According to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Stroke, researchers studied 90,137 postmenopausal women,…

Emboldened by the rightist Hindu Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Hindu groups have been railing against other faiths in India, vowing to work on converting the whole Muslim and Christian communities within the next decade.   Hindu activist said that the…

Religious Shia figures in Bahrain have condemned the abolition of the identity of the famous al-Khamis (Thursday) Mosque by the Al-Khalifah regime, who seek to turn it into a tourist attraction.   The al-Khamis Mosque is believed to be the…