he so-called Africa-Israel Summit, a first of its kind, had been due to take place in Togo’s capital, Lome, on October 23-27. Israeli officials had reportedly planned to discuss with African leaders ways to enhance cooperation in the fields of “technology, development, and security.” In a statement released on Monday, Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced the postponement of the event without providing an alternative date. ...
- His comments come more than a month after the country started a campaign to drive ISIS terrorists from its last key stronghold of Mosul. “Confidence grows in the ability and will of the armed forces and their supporters in achieving a final victory that is not far off,” al-Sistani’s representative, Abdel-Mahdi al-Karbali, said in a sermon. In mid-October, government forces, backed by Kurdish fighters, started a long-awaited ...
AhlulBayt News Agency - The officials in the Bahraini regime know very well that Al Wefaq’s Secretary General, Sheikh Ali Salman, has made countless speeches in which he called for political dialogue to reach a resolution to the crisis in Bahrain. His efforts go back to the 90s and were most recently renewed last September, a few months before his arrest in December. He met with a number of officials and was most serious and honest to ...
A north Queensland man says he is grateful his neighbours invited him along to a mosque open day to learn more about their faith.
Colin Hofmeier prides himself on learning about other people's religions, and encourages others to do the same.
"We have a Muslim family who live next to us who we found are just beautiful people," he said.
"They extended an invitation to us and I was very quick to say yes because I like to pride myself on being open ...
Dr. Sayed Altaf Baqer Naqavi is one of the guests of 8th International Muslim Physicians Congress who paid a visit of Museum of Qur’an and Center of Exhibitions and Conferences of Astan Quds Razavi. “This is the second time that I am coming to Iran. Center of Exhibitions and Conferences of Astan Quds Razavi is a good environment where all the pilgrims of the holy shrine can make familiar professionally with the performances and ...
An attack on a pregnant veiled Muslim woman last week in Stockholm has triggered calls on Swedish women of all religious affiliations to don hijab on Monday, August 19, in a show of support to Muslim rights.“We want people to wear a headscarf on Monday. Primarily because we want to normalize the headscarves,” said Bilan Osman, one of the initiators, to P4 Göteborg, Goteborg Daily reported.“People view headscarves and Muslims as something ...
The enemies hire the clergies who have only attire and they have no knowledge or piety so as to make you pessimistic and enemy toward the clergies and scholars who are pious and they are pure regarding passions and finances.they do this to prevent people from referring to religious authorities.
If you have no contact with the scholars how are you supposed to learn the religion?
How would you escape from the demons and keep yourself healthy?
The ...
Over half a million Iranians have signed up for the Arbaeen pilgrimage to Karbala, Iraq, according to Said Owhadi, head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, ISNA news agency reported October 28.
In 2015 Arbaeen gathered some 20 million people in the Iraqi city to be named the biggest human gathering in history. Looking beyond the religious content, it is going to turn into a major economic feature for Iraq and the neighboring Iran ...
One of the Friday Prayer Leaders in Beirut gave Arabian officials incentive to uphold doggedly the Palestinian nation.
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Seyyed Ali Fazlollah, one of the Friday Prayer Leaders in Beirut conscripted all Arab countries into siding with Palestinian nations against the regime of Zionism, sketching out what needs to be done for fulfilling the aim.
Israeli officials who hound Palestinians out of their ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - On the birthday anniversaries of the Prophet of Islam and Imam Sadiq (peace be upon them), a group of ambassadors from Muslim countries, Iranian officials and invitees to the 29th International Islamic Unity Conference met with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution on 29 Dec. 2015.In this meeting, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution offered felicitations on the birthday of the Great Messenger of Islam (PBUH) and Imam ...
The deaths in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger come despite apparent military advances against the terrorist militants in recent weeks, the rights group said in a statement."The number of people killed so far this year is truly shocking with more than 3,500 civilian fatalities in less than 300 days," said Amnesty's Africa director for research and advocacy, Netsanet Belay."Governments in affected countries must take all necessary legal measures ...
India said Sunday that it is taking steps to ensure safe evacuation of its nationals from Yemen after a sailors’ group claimed that 70 seamen from Gujarat are stranded in the war-torn country.
Officials spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs’ Vikas Swarup said on Sunday, “Our mission in Yemen (camp office in Djibouti) is aware of the situation and taking steps to ensure safe evacuation of Indians.”
Nearly 70 ...
A half-built mosque in the northwestern German town of Dormagen has been spray painted with swastikas and racist slogans. The act of vandalism comes as anti-Islamic demonstrations continue to grow across Germany.
The perpetrators are reported to have entered the building site late Saturday/early Sunday morning. As well as the symbol associated to Nazis, the vandals also wrote slurs such as "off with you to the concentration camp!"
The attack ...
British police started investigation into the death of a Muslim cleric who was bludgeoned to death in a children’s playground. The police are examining CCTV footage which shows three men running near the scene of the crime shortly afterwards. Former Imam Jalal Uddin suffered major head injuries as he was walking home after a meal at a friend’s house following evening prayers on Thursday in Rochdale. The 64-year-old was found by a ...
Palestinian medical sources in Bethlehem reported Saturday at night that a Jewish settler rammed his vehicle into a mother and her two girls in Al Jab’a village near Bethlehem, and fled the scene. The sources identified the woman as Aneesa Hasan Al Tous, 35, and her two daughters Ro’a, 2 years old, and Nagham, 5. They were moved to Al Ahli Hospital In Hebron; the mom and one of her children are in moderate conditions while the second ...
Nigeria Quds Day Massacre Remembrance Day; Bring culprits behind the act to justice, even if he’s the president
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - On Thursday the 23rd of July 2015, Professor Dahiru Yahaya of the Department of History, Bayero University, Kano delivered the opening lecture on the 4-day programme to remember the Quds Day Massacre where 34 people, among them the 3 sons of sheikh Zakzaky, were martyred by the Nigerian Military while ...
Persian version of the most precise history book on the holy shrines of Ahlul Bayt (AS)titled "Ahlul (AS) Bayt in Egypt" is translated into Persian. The historical and scientific research of "Ahlul Byat (AS) in Egypt" is done by Seyyed Hadi Khosroshahi and translated by Mohammad Moghadasi.The Arabic text of the book is compiled through various credited Sunni credited sources in Egypt and the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of ...
Some 50 contesters from 37 Arab and Muslim countries are participating in this renowned international competition.
The two-day contest is composed of two branches, the first pertains to the full memorization of the Holy Qur'an with recitation and interpretation, while the second relates to Tajweed (rules governing pronunciation during recitation of the Qur'an) and good performance with the memorization of two and a half parts of the ...
Five Shiite Muslims, among them two brothers, were gunned down and as many others wounded in what police described as an armed attack on sectarian grounds in Karachi’s Nazimabad locality on Saturday. It was the fourth such assault in the city during Muharram.KARACHI, Pakistan (AhlulBayt News Agency) - Five Shiite Muslims, among them two brothers and a woman were gunned down and as many others wounded in what police ...
More than 90 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives has signed a letter urging President Barack Obama to use U.S. veto power to block any United Nations resolutions seen as biased against Israel, one of the letter's lead sponsors said on Friday. U.S. Representative Nita Lowey said 394 members of the 435-member House signed the letter that was sent to Obama on Thursday. It was written as the Palestinian Authority renewed its drive to ...
