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The Dutch Chargé d’Affairs in Iraq Rochus Pronk visited the holy shrine of Imam Hussain (peace be upon him) in Karbala. Pronk and his delegation also toured the Museum of the Holy Shrine. The Dutch official expressed humbleness and said…

Members of South Lanarkshire Council have ratified a motion which tries to confront growing Islamophobia as well as other forms of racism and discrimination in the area. At a full council meeting last week, councilor Ali Salamati brought forward a…

An exhibition of Quranic artworks is underway in at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) in Islamabad. The event was inaugurated by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political & Public Affairs, and National Heritage Engr Amir Muqam on…

A report issued by the United Nations Credentials Committee confirmed that a decision on whether the Taliban government and the military junta in Myanmar could send a UN ambassador to New York for the second time was postponed, but the…

Findings from WHO and UN-Water’s Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water (GLAAS) report show that acceleration is needed in many countries to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 – water and sanitation for all by 2030.…

A delegation from the Misbah Al-Hussein Foundation for Relief and Development, affiliated to the office of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi  in holy Karbala, attended the opening ceremony of the Heritage and Artifacts Exhibition, organized by the House of…

Pakistani Federal Minister for Human Rights Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada expressed deep condolences on the sad demise of Allama Ghazanfar Abbas Hashimi Tunsawi, Pakistani UrduPoint newspaper reported.  In his message, the Federal Minister said that Allama Ghazanfar Abbas Hashimi was…

The Office of the Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan, provided financial aid to hundreds of orphan families. The charitable work, carried out on Monday, came as part of the humanitarian charitable activities…

The UN Women in Afghanistan said that “women make-up the majority of the displaced populations in Afghanistan. The inability to exercise property rights or seek legal help means women in informal settlements live every day in fear of being evicted.”…

The (Forum 18) news website reported that two courts in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, imposed two fines on two Shia women, for holding mourning ceremonies inside school classes, which they had revived during the sacred month of Muharram, mourning Imam…