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Those holding tourist/visit visas are not allowed to perform the Hajj, Saudi Arabia has announced. According to the Ministry of Tourism, the regulations and instructions in the kingdom prevent the tourist visa holders from performing Hajj, and also prevent them…

Finnish researchers have installed the world’s first fully working “sand battery” which can store green power for months at a time. The developers say this could solve the problem of year-round supply, a major issue for green energy. Using low-grade…

The German ambassador to Iraq, Mr. Martin Jaeger and his accompanying delegation, visited the al-Askariyain Holy Shrine in Samarra. The official website of the Holy Shrine stated, in a statement received by Shia Waves News Agency that “the Secretary-General of…

The Iraqi National Security Adviser, Qassem al-Araji, called on all countries to withdraw their nationals from the Syrian al-Hol camp, considering that the camp poses a threat to Iraq. This came during Al-Araji’s discussion with a delegation of the UN…

Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Wahid Khorasani, one of the religious authorities in the holy city of Qom, met with the Secretary-General of the Holy Shrine of Imam Hussain, peace be upon him, Haj Hassan Rashid Al-Abayichi and the accompanying delegation. Grand…

The religious pilgrimage mission of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence, Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, hosted a delegation of members from the Hajj Mission of Sheikh Bashir al-Najafi, in Mecca. A statement by the Office of Grand Ayatollah Shirazi, received…

In cooperation with the Misbah Al-Hussein Foundation for Relief and Development, the Fayd Al-Zahra Foundation held a course to teach the Quran and Islamic rulings in the Iraqi province of Dhi Qar. A statement by the Foundation, received by Shia…

At the beginning of the scientific session of the Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq Al-Husseini Al-Shirazi, in his honorable house in the holy city of Qom, for Monday, 4 Dhul-Hijjah 1443 AH (4/7/2022 AD), one of…

The Public Relations Department at Al-Abbas Holy Shrine, through its two divisions of Ministerial Coordination and University and School Relations, took the initiative to present gifts and blessings from the Holy Shrine to a number of couples approaching marriage in…

At an Islamic boarding school in a neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Indonesian city Yogyakarta, the sound of Quranic recitation is nowhere to be heard. This is a religious school for deaf children, and here the students gesture rapidly…