NEWS

United Nations rights chief Michelle Bachelet arrived in Bangladesh Sunday for a four-day visit that will include a trip to squalid camps housing nearly a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. The exodus of Rohingya was sparked by a 2017 Myanmar…

A Muslim woman of African descent documented the moment she faced a racist attack by a female administrator in a special center for the elderly in France because of her hijab. According to a video clip posted by a woman…

Photographs circulating on social media networks showed the departure of the first group of Arbaeen pilgrims from Basra province heading towards the holy city of Karbala on foot to commemorate the Arbaeen Pilgrimage of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him).…

Due to lack of services, jobs and human rights violations, the number of immigrants leaving their countries is dramatically increasing. The French website “Mediapart” said that deaths are increasing among illegal immigrants without this provoking a slightest reaction on the…

Days before the first anniversary of their return to power, Taliban fighters beat female protesters and fired into the air on Saturday as they violently dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital. About 40 women – chanting “bread, work…

An official in the Iranian Transportation Ministry said on Saturday that the process of transporting Iranian pilgrims to the holy shrines in Iraq to participate in the commemoration of the Arbaeen pilgrimage to Imam Hussein, peace be upon him, and…

The Zainabiya Seminary, affiliated with the Shirazi Religious Authority in the Syrian capital, Damascus, continues to hold the Husseini mourning ceremonies, on the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him. The ceremonies witnessed a large presence of Shias…

The European TV network “Euro News” published a photo report in which it shed light on some of the details of the painful Ashura ceremonies in the holy city of Karbala. In its report, the caption read, “Shia Muslims take…

Fifteen human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, sent a letter to the King of Bahrain calling for the release of academic and political activist Abdul Jalil Al-Singace. The organizations urged the Bahraini authorities to secure the…

The largest mosque in Central Asia has opened in Kazakhstan’s capital, Nur-Sultan.   Several high-ranking figures attended the mosque-opening ceremony. The mosque spans an area of almost ten hectares, and is topped by a 90-meter central dome and eight smaller domes. …