NEWS

The daily scholarly meeting of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadiq Hosseini Shirazi was held on Friday and Saturday, the 15th and 16th of Safar. In these sessions, just like the previous meetings, the Supreme Religious Authority answered the questions of the…

A government school teacher in Shivamogga district, Karnataka, has been transferred, and will face an official inquiry following allegations that she told two Class 5 Muslim students to “go to Pakistan.” The incident has sparked outrage and drawn attention to…

At least seven worshippers were killed in an attack on a mosque by a gang of gunmen in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna state, police said on Saturday. The attack, in the remote Saya village of the Ikara local government area of…

Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Bashir Najafi, joined on Saturday the pilgrims walking towards the holy city of Karbala to commemorate the Arbaeen pilgrimage of Imam Hussain (peace be upon him). The Shia Religious Authority left Najaf to the holy city of…

Iraq’s prime minister on Saturday inaugurated construction work on what is planned to become the first railway line connecting the country to neighbouring Iran, a major political and economic partner. “This project is an important support in strengthening the infrastructure…

Shia Rights Watch released its monthly report on human rights violations against the Shia around the world in August. According to this report, followers of Ahl al-Bayt, peace be upon them, experienced the same level of violation of rights in…

Twenty thousand Afghans prepared to perform the Arbaeen pilgrimage are left undecided for entry to Iran, even though their visas have been issued by the Iraqi consulate in Mashhad. Mohammad Kabir Taheri Teymouriyan, Head of Afghanistan’s Holy Shrines Union shared…

The daily scholarly meeting of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadegh Hosseini Shirazi was held on Thursday, the 14th of Safar. In this session, like the previous meetings, he answered the questions of the attendees about various legal issues. In this meeting,…

The director general-elect of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) called for urgent solutions to address climate change and human mobility challenges because the world has entered “the era of climate migration.” Amy Pope said in a statement on Friday…

Nearly 1 million children in Mali will be subject to acute malnutrition by the end of the year without life-saving humanitarian aid as 200,000 face the dire prospect of death by starvation, the UN warned Friday. About one in four…