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The decision of the government of the Indian state of Assam to close religious schools sparked widespread anger among Islamic institutions and educational centers, as well as strong rejection by members of the opposition Congress.The Minister of Education and Finance…

Predominantly Buddhist Sri Lanka’s ultranationalist government is forcing families of the country’s Muslim and Christian minorities to abandon their faith-based burial rites for relatives who die of COVID-19 — consequently inviting fresh international scrutiny of the nation’s already troubled human…

The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, expressed its strong condemnation of the political arrests of Muslim dissidents and activists in the Indian Kashmir region, calling on the authorities to release all detainees and to stop the policy of racial discrimination…

The Nizami Quranic Center in the Indian city of Aligarh has succeeded in promoting academic excellence in teaching, research and publishing in the field of Quranic studies.The center, which is abbreviated by K.A., has henceforth become one of the main…

Indian political parties and human rights organizations demanded that the government recognizes the birth anniversary of the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, as an official holiday in the country, stressing that this is a right of the…

The representative of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, in India, Sayyed Saif Abbas Naqvi, visited the wounded people in the terrorist act that targeted a Husseiniyah in the Sultanpour region, and examined their health status and…

The last year ended with nation-wide protests against a series of controversial citizenship amendment laws passed by the government of India in December. And according to experts, the country has since become a “dangerous and violent space for Muslim minorities”.Throughout…

Smugglers mercilessly beat rake-thin refugees crowded onto a fishing boat, in a video obtained by AFP news agency that shows rarely seen images from the front lines of the Rohingya trafficking network.Filmed on a mobile phone by a smuggler who…

Despite calls from exiled Uighurs, International Criminal Court prosecutors say they will not investigate China for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity, according to a report issued December 14.The Uighurs had called for the investigation and provided The Hague-based court…

Warith al-Anbiya Institute for Preacher Preparation continues to conduct various activities aimed at spreading the culture and teachings of the Ahlulbayt, peace be upon them.The director of the institute, Sheikh Ahmed al-Amili, said in a statement that the Safinat al-Najat…