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The International Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) called on the Sudanese authorities to intervene to stop the massacres against civilians.  In a statement received by Shia Waves News Agency, the organization said that it had seen with great regret the press…

Football is a prestigious ball game that engages players from all nationalities worldwide. Muslim football players are among the best footballers in the world, who have even reached the biggest leagues in the world. There are over 1.8 billion Muslims…

Located in the city of Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, is the Imam Hussein Mosque (peace be upon him). The mosque is the only Shia mosque in the city and the first in Central Africa. In the year 2000,…

Shia Muslim and Christian media professionals, filmmakers and researchers succeeded in communicating important Shia concepts and issues to the world, through their participation in the conference (Material, Ritual, and Senses: The Dynamic World of Lived Shia Islam), hosted by the…

 Eliminating racism and disparities in health status resulting from racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance is central to global efforts to advance the right to health and other human rights, a UN expert told the General Assembly on Thursday, October 20th.…

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urging international support for humanitarian efforts in South Sudan in the face of record-breaking rains and floods for a fourth consecutive year, and the threat of worse to come as the climate crisis accelerates.…

Uganda’s Finance Trust Bank on Thursday October 20th launched the country’s first Islamic Sharia compliant account called ‘Halal’. Prominent Muslim personalities attended the launch event held in the country’s capital Kampala. Percy Lubega, head of business development at the bank,…

A bizarre new list to categories Muslims based on their countries of origin is at the heart of what critics call an attempt to further discriminate against the community. Two years ago, Denmark’s former Minister for Immigration and Integration Mattias…

The number of Muslims living in Japan, though small, has nearly doubled in the past decade, from 110,000 in 2010 to 185,000 at the end of 2019 (including as many as 50,000 Japanese converts), according to Tanada Hirofumi of Waseda…

The Louvre museum in Paris will display dozens of artifacts from Uzbekistan that its experts helped restore, including a fragment of an 8th century Quran, the Uzbek government said on Friday. A total of 70 restored artifacts will be shown…