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The United Nations welcomed the progress made in the ongoing negotiations between the delegations of the Afghan government and the Taliban terrorist movement in the Qatari capital, Doha.According to a statement published by the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan…

A new place of worship is rising in the heart of Jersey City.The Muslim Federation of New Jersey, a Jersey City-based Islamic nonprofit, broke ground on a new mosque last month at its McGinley Square headquarters.The new, roughly 17,000 square-foot…

A school board in Canada has added Ashura and Ashura as religious holidays.The Waterloo Region District School Board is the first school board in Ontario, Canada that now allows its Shia teachers to take time off to perform Ziyarahs during…

A number of Shia youth of Iraqi origins are seeking to establish the ‘Imam Hussein Chair for Academic Studies and Researches’ in American universities, to introduce the Husseini renaissance, as they started the first steps of the project.One of the…

The United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, described government officials who took advantage of the Corona pandemic to restrict religious freedom as malicious, stressing that the exploitation of the pandemic crisis has led to an increase in…

The United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) praised the efforts made by the “Imam Hussein Blood Donation Campaign” to save lives, following the teachings inspired by Imam Hussein ibn Ali, peace be upon him.The department, which represents the highest British…

A new guide has been issued for journalists reporting on Muslims and Islam.The Independent Press Standards Organization has produced the guidance, which outlines key questions for journalists to consider and includes relevant case studies.The publication also offers contextual information about…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, deplored Thursday’s deadly stabbings in the French city of Nice, saying that the perpetrators “do not get to define Muslims” and are unrepresentative of Islam.Twenty-one-year-old Brahim Aouissaoui is suspected to have carried out the stabbings…

Muslim-American Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar have won re-election to the US House of Representatives, with both lawmakers projected to secure an overwhelming majority of the votes in their respective districts in Michigan and Minnesota.After being elected as the…

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today issued a travel advisory warning American Muslims against traveling to France amid the French government’s “hypocritical and dangerous” campaign of Islamophobic bigotry targeting French…