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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…

A group of Nepalese Muslims organized protests march to denounce China’s violations against Uighur Muslims, in the East Turkestan region.According to press reports, a group of Nepalese Muslims gathered in the city of Pokhara, in a protest march to condemn…

Press reports revealed that a modern Quranic school and medical center will be established in the main mosque in the Ugandan city of Zigoti.According to reports, the mosque, which was built with the donation of philanthropists and Muslims in the…

French churches, mosques and synagogues can open their doors again to worshippers, but only a few of them, as France cautiously starts reopening after a second virus lockdown.Some churches may defy the 30-person limit which they believe is too unreasonable,…

The Catholic Church in Germany called for the unity of Muslims and Christians in the face of Islamophobia.In a statement entitled, “No to Hate, the Union of Muslims and Christians to Confront Islamophobia”, the church called on Muslims and Christians…

The Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports in Brunei organized an exhibition on Islamic art and calligraphy, in conjunction with the International Day of Islamic Art, at the Yayasan Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Islamic Arts Calligraphy Centre yesterday.The ministry had…

The International Committee of Sayyed al-Shuhada, affiliated with the Shirazi Religious Authority in Kuwait, has distributed large quantities of food baskets to the poor families in the countries of eastern Africa.This comes within the committee’s long-term project, which is being…

Husseiniyat Khadamat Khuddam al-Hussain, affiliated with the Shirazi Religious Authority in Sweden, held a mourning ceremony on the occasion of the martyrdom anniversary of Sayyeda Fatima al-Zahraa, peace be upon her.The ceremony was attended by a group of followers of…