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HRH: Prisoners in Pakistan are deprived of adequate health care

HRH: Prisoners in Pakistan are deprived of adequate health care

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) confirmed in a report released yesterday, Wednesday that the Pakistani authorities had systematically deprived prisoners of adequate health care, leaving thousands at risk of disease and death. The Organization added that outdated and discriminatory bail…
Madagascar-based office of Grand Ayatollah launches its Ramadan activities

Madagascar-based office of Grand Ayatollah launches its Ramadan activities

Along with other centers affiliated with the Supreme Religious Authority across the world, the Ahl al-Bayt Center in the city of Mahajanga in the Republic of Madagascar, holds special programs during the blessed month of Ramadan 1444 AH These programs…
Grand Ayatollah Shirazi’s representative gives speech at Iftar banquet hosted by Canadian Islamic Association

Grand Ayatollah Shirazi’s representative gives speech at Iftar banquet hosted by Canadian Islamic Association

Hujjat ul-Islam wal-Muslimeen, Sheikh Saleh Sibweih, representative of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi (may Allah prolong his life), attended the Iftar banquet hosted by the Canadian Islamic Association. The event was attended by a number of high-ranking Quebec officials, as well as…
Egyptian Muslim woman obtains official permit allowing Azan in a New York neighborhood

Egyptian Muslim woman obtains official permit allowing Azan in a New York neighborhood

Egyptian Rana Abdel Hamid succeeded in extracting an official permit allowing the call to prayer over loudspeakers for the first time in the mosques of the Astoria neighborhood, west of Queens, New York City, USA. Rana and her mother, Mona…
Hundreds of Muslims displaced in DR Congo suffer food shortage to break Ramadan fast

Hundreds of Muslims displaced in DR Congo suffer food shortage to break Ramadan fast

It is a difficult Ramadan for hundreds of Muslims displaced by the deadly violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to reports, some 500 Muslims are cramped together in makeshift huts in the displaced persons’ camp in…
Mexico: At least 39 migrants died after fire broke out at migrant detention center

Mexico: At least 39 migrants died after fire broke out at migrant detention center

At least 38 migrants from Central and South America died after a fire broke out late on Monday at a migrant detention center in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, apparently caused by a protest over deportations, Reuters…
State of Karnataka removes 4% education quota for Muslims, distributes it to Hindu communities

State of Karnataka removes 4% education quota for Muslims, distributes it to Hindu communities

The Hindu nationalist right-wing government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the southern Indian state of Karnatakam made a decision to remove the 4% quota for the Muslim minority in employment and educational institutions, media reports said. The decision…
Students and parents at Michaela Community School in Wembley banned from performing prayer

Students and parents at Michaela Community School in Wembley banned from performing prayer

Students at Michaela Community School in Wembley are being prevented from their obligatory prayers in the school. Over 3,000 people have signed an online petition complaining about the behaviour of the school which currently provides no prayer facilities for the…
Muslim teen jailed for five hours for possessing 4cm Zulfiqar pendant

Muslim teen jailed for five hours for possessing 4cm Zulfiqar pendant

The family of a Muslim teenager arrested and held in custody for almost five hours for being in possession of a pinky-sized Zulfiqar sword-shaped pendant has said they are considering taking legal action against Greater Manchester Police (GMP) for an…
UNICEF sounds alarm over fast-spreading cholera outbreaks in Africa

UNICEF sounds alarm over fast-spreading cholera outbreaks in Africa

Africa is witnessing an exponential rise in cholera cases amid a global surge. Cases recorded on the continent in the first month of 2023 alone have already risen by more than 30% of the total caseload reached in the whole…
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