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Grand Ayatollah Shirazi Declares Spreading Ahl al-Bayt Culture and Reviving Husseini Rituals ‘Best Action’ Today —————————————— Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sadiq al-Husayni al-Shirazi emphasized that the most important and obligatory tasks for believers today are to widely disseminate the culture of…

Conflict Sends 300,000 Fleeing South Sudan in 2025: UN Warning —————————————— Approximately 300,000 people have fled South Sudan so far in 2025 as armed conflict between rival leaders threatens a return to civil war, the United Nations warned on Monday,…

UNICEF: 17 Children Killed in Attack on Displacement Center in Sudan’s North Darfur ……………. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that 17 children were killed in an attack on a displacement center in El Fasher, North Darfur, as violence…

Street Name Change in Sayyida Zainab Area Sparks Tension Among Shiite Residents …………… The Syrian Observatory for Documentation reported that local authorities in the Sayyida Zainab district, south of Damascus, have renamed “Iraqis Street” — home to many Shiite families…

African leaders and development experts are calling for immediate international debt relief as a growing public sector crisis hampers vital services across the continent. In a high-level meeting in Addis Ababa, finance ministers from 12 African Union member states pushed…

Anti-Violence Group Urges Pakistan and Afghanistan to End Escalation and Resume Dialogue ………….. The Global Nonviolence Organization (Freemuslim Association) has voiced deep concern over the recent and ongoing military escalation between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Islamic Emirate…

New Study Finds Deforestation Raises Flood Risk by Up to 700 Percent ………… A new study has found that large-scale deforestation can increase the likelihood of major floods by as much as 700 percent, particularly in watershed regions where forests…

Many Nonbelievers Around the World Still Hold Spiritual Beliefs —————————————— A new study by the Pew Research Center has found that while secularism is on the rise globally, a significant number of people who identify as nonreligious continue to believe…

Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan Lead in 2024 ISC World Islamic Universities Ranking ————————————- The Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) has released its 2024 World Islamic Universities Ranking, highlighting the growing research output and academic performance of universities across the…

Commemoration of Iraq’s 1920 Revolution, ‘Thawrat al-Ishrin,’ Led by the Second Mirza Shirazi ————————————– The 20th of Rabi’ al-Thani marks the anniversary of the 1920 Iraqi Revolution, known as “Thawrat al-Ishrin,” which was led by the Grand Ayatollah Mirza Muhammad…