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More than four months after a national state of emergency was declared in Pakistan, up to 4 million children are still living near contaminated and stagnant flood waters, risking their survival and wellbeing, UNICEF warned today. Acute respiratory infections among…

A joint statement from the world’s top NGOs was released in solidarity with political dissidents and human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia. The statement says, “In recent years, Saudi authorities’ ongoing crackdown on dissenting voices has only increased in scope…

The director of the Najaf Office of the Imam Hussein Media Group, Sheikh Abdul Hamid Al-Amiri, discussed with the Private Secretary of the Al-Sahla Mosque, Sayyed Mudher Al-Madani, prospects for joint cooperation in the media field and disseminating the culture…

Pakistan and the United Nations held a major conference in Geneva on Monday aimed at marshaling support to rebuild the country after devastating floods. Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers last September displaced some 8 million people and killed at…

A delegation of scholars from the Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq Al-Husseini Al-Shirazi in Najaf, participated in the funeral ceremonies of the late scholar Dr. Muhammad Hussein Al-Sagheer. Sheikh Salah Al-Hilfi, Director of the Shirazi…

The blessed Zainabiya Seminary in the Syrian city of Damascus recalled the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of its founder, the Islamic thinker Ayatollah Sayyed Hassan al-Shirazi (may Allah bless his soul). The seminary held a memorial ceremony in honor…

Sixteen senior Islamic scholars from the Shia and Sunni sects in the Pakistani city of Karachi issued a unanimous fatwa condemning terrorism and extremism, and prohibiting attacks on the army and police forces that defend people’s rights and are responsible…

Hundreds of Iraqi pilgrims arrived at the house of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah, Sayyed Sadiq Al-Husseini Al-Shirazi, in the holy city of Qom, on Monday morning, corresponding to the sixteenth of the month of Jumada al-Thani 1444 AH…

The international research institution “Academia” has published, on its official website, a scientific research on the annual million Arba’een Pilgrimage in the holy city of Karbala. The institution said in a report that the research by the Pakistani researcher Shahzad…

Through protection from Imam al-Mahdi, may Allah hasten his honorable reappearance, the Office of the Religious Authority, His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, helped establishing one hundred and forty Fatimid mourning ceremonies through…