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Turkish government mandates Islamic prayer room for kindergartens

Turkish government mandates Islamic prayer room for kindergartens

Turkey’s Education and Science Workers’ Union on Oct. 31 announced that the Education Ministry has amended the Regulation on Preschool Education and Primary Education Institutions to require masjids (Islamic prayer rooms) in preschool education institutions. Previously, kindergartens were required to…
Support organizations in Oklahoma provide Afghan refugees with halal food

Support organizations in Oklahoma provide Afghan refugees with halal food

Urban Mission, a drive-thru food resource center in Oklahoma, US, has been providing food packages to underprivileged families, including Afghan refugees. Executive director German Garcia says each day the pantry delivers boxes of food to each car, feeding 250 households,…
Pakistan starts mass deportation of undocumented Afghans, Taliban asks for more time

Pakistan starts mass deportation of undocumented Afghans, Taliban asks for more time

Pakistan Wednesday launched a crackdown on undocumented foreigners, mainly Afghans, across the country, deporting thousands to neighboring Afghanistan as the deadline for them to leave the country ended the previous day. 64 Afghan nationals arrested by Islamabad police during the…
International Uyghur Forum calls upon Japan to investigate atrocities against Uyghurs

International Uyghur Forum calls upon Japan to investigate atrocities against Uyghurs

Parliamentarians from around the world issued a joint declaration calling on Japan to conduct an independent investigation of the Chinese government’s rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang and to sanction Communist Party officials who have played a role in it.…
Reconstruction of shrine of Holy Prophet’s companion ‘Abdullah ibn Khabbab ibn al-Art’ begins in Baghdad

Reconstruction of shrine of Holy Prophet’s companion ‘Abdullah ibn Khabbab ibn al-Art’ begins in Baghdad

The Secretariat-General of the Holy Shia Shrines in Iraq announced on Wednesday that it laid the foundation stone for the reconstruction and expansion project of the shrine of the martyred companion Abdullah ibn Khabbab ibn al-Art, may Allah be pleased…
Ayatollah Shirazi refutes common saying widely used by Shia followers of Ahlulbayt

Ayatollah Shirazi refutes common saying widely used by Shia followers of Ahlulbayt

In his daily scholarly meeting that was held yesterday, the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husaini al-Shirazi, refuted the common saying which states that “Every day is Ashura and every land is Karbala,” asserting that it contradicts the…
200 Holy Quran memorizers win top prizes in Indonesia Quran memorization contest

200 Holy Quran memorizers win top prizes in Indonesia Quran memorization contest

The director of the International Quranic Da’wah Center in the Indonesian capital, Dr. Abdullah Bek, confirmed the success of the Quranic courses in creating a generation of Quran memorizers. Bek’s announcement came at the conclusion of the contest held by…
14th of Rabi al-Thani marks anniversary of al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi’s uprising

14th of Rabi al-Thani marks anniversary of al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi’s uprising

The 14th of Rabi al-Thani marks the anniversary of al-Mukhtar al-Thaqafi’s uprising, which took place five years after the event of Ashura, demanding the blood of Imam Hussain and the martyrs of Karbala. He killed many of the murderers of…
DR Congo: ISIS-backed rebels gun down 2 Ugandan soldiers, 2 civilians in car park attack

DR Congo: ISIS-backed rebels gun down 2 Ugandan soldiers, 2 civilians in car park attack

Rebels backed by the ISIS terrorist Organization (Daesh) have killed two Ugandan soldiers in an attack that also left two civilians and a suspected assailant dead in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, TRT AFRIKA reported on Saturday. The attack was…
Train crash leaves at least 14 dead in southeast India

Train crash leaves at least 14 dead in southeast India

A “human error” led to a deadly train crash that killed at least 14 passengers and injured nearly 50 in India’s southeastern Andhra Pradesh state, local officials have reported. A passenger train overshot a signal on Sunday between the towns…
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