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Over recent months, funding shortfalls have forced UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to make cuts to its lifesaving aid to refugees and other forcibly displaced people in a number of operations across the world. UNHCR is particularly concerned about the…

Community leaders say Fargo’s Islamic Cemetery is the target of a vandalism spree. The area in North Dakota, USA, is usually a quiet, peaceful area, and operating the one-acre cemetery is largely a grassroots effort for the Islamic Society of…

The Imam Shirazi World Foundation has called for reforming the prison conditions in the Middle East, stressing the need to pay serious attention to the conditions of those who are imprisoned or arrested on any charge. In a statement received…

NASA’s James Webb Telescope has captured an extraordinary and highly-detailed view of the iconic cosmic landscape Pillars of Creation. The image released on Wednesday revealed newly formed stars and pillars of gas and dust that look like rock formations. The…

Hundreds of people from North Texas’ Muslim community gathered over the weekend and raised tens of thousands of dollars that will help refugee families in the area with rent, food, clothing and necessities. Zeenat Khan, founder of DFW Refugee Outreach Services,…

The Islamic community of Salvador, in Brazil’s Bahia state, has pushed Harvard University to repatriate the skull of an enslaved man who allegedly took part in a famous uprising of African Muslims in the city in 1835.  The skull is…

The Shia Association in San Francisco organized religious and cultural activities for children and young girls on the birth anniversary of the Prophet and Imam Al-Sadiq (peace be upon them). The organizers said that the aim of such activities is…

Two Shia clerics in the US state of Michigan played a central role in organizing protests against the inclusion of inappropriate content and the promotion of homosexuality in school curricula for primary and secondary school students, according to US media…

The ‘Detroit Free Press’ newspaper reported that hundreds of protesters packed a Dearborn Public Schools board meeting on Monday October 11th and shut it down with cries of anger over certain LGBTQ books they said are too sexually explicit for…

Various artworks were displayed at the first Austin Muslim Culture Festival by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) at Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. The festival featured a wide variety of food, art, clothing and jewelry vendors, as…