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Members of India’s Muslim community have welcomed the government’s decision to scrap a “VIP quota” for Hajj, saying this will help open up spots for more pilgrims. Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam that every able-bodied Muslims…

People across the UK are facing more rain, flooding and cold weather in the coming days. The Environment Agency has issued 117 flood warnings – mainly in west and south-west England and Yorkshire – as well as 187 flood alerts.…

Muslims in Germany are particularly vulnerable to discrimination based on their name and appearance, a racism survey has found. A government report said women with headscarves struggled to get jobs and children with Turkish names were marked down at school.…

The Karbala Center for Studies and Research, affiliated to Imam Hussein Holy Shrine, has issued a specialized scientific book in two parts under the title “Maqtal Al-Hussein” by the late author “Abdul Razzaq Al-Muqram, and the book has been fully…

The Shia followers of AhlulBayt, peace be upon them, in Syria expressed their great happiness on the anniversary of the birth anniversary of Sayyeda Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her), extending their congratulations and blessings to Imam Al-Mahdi, may Allah…

Hundreds of people in the Somali capital Mogadishu, attended a government-organised rally on Thursday to protest against the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group. Al-Shabab has been waging a bloody uprising against the internationally-backed central government since 2007, carrying out attacks in Somalia…

Coinciding with the honorable birth anniversary of Sayyeda Fatima al-Zahra (peace be upon her), more than a thousand young girls celebrated reaching the legal age of puberty. The ceremony was organized by the Secretariat of the Great Kufa Mosque in…

The holy city of Karbala witnessed, for the first time in Iraq and the world, the largest banner of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra (peace be upon her), marking the advent of her honorable birth anniversary. The Al-Zahra initiative, which was taken…

Nine people were killed when suspected jihadists attacked a mosque in northeastern Burkina Faso, local sources said Thursday. The attack happened at around nightfall on Wednesday in the village of Goulgountou in Burkina’s Sahel region, when assailants arrived on motorbikes…

Last Saturday in Mirpur Khas, a city in Pakistan’s Sindh province, hundreds of people lined up for hours outside a park to buy subsidized wheat flour, offered for 65 rupees a kilogram instead of the current, inflated rate of about…