- The demonstrators gathered in front the house of the prominent activist in Bani Jamra on Sunday.
The president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Rajab was arrested upon return from Lebanon at the Bahrain International Airport in the capital, Manama, on May 5.
Sayed Yousif Almuhafda, a member of the BCHR, said Saturday that Bahraini police “had an arrest warrant from the public prosecutions office” to detain Rajab.
The ...
--The annual meeting of researchers and investigators of Hajj was held on November 28 by Hajj Research Center of Umm Al-Qura University in Mena region.
According to Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper, the meeting was attended by Valid bin Hussein Abul Faraj, president of the university, Samer bin Hamdan Al-Harbi, head of the research center and a number of Hajj researchers and scholars.
Representatives of the healthcare department, media, environment, ...
To commemorate the Martyrdom of Hazrat Abass Alamdar various mourning processions of ALAM has been carried out from different villages of Kargil toward the Kargil Town.
As the Moon of First Muharram has been seen one day earlier from the rest of the world and has been duly announced by the Huzia Almiya Isna Ashriya Kargil the Processions of Ninth Muharram has been carried out on the 15th of December 2010.
On this day Shia Community ...
Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and his cabinet. The head of the military council Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi said in a televised speech on Tuesday that a new government would be formed to replace the administration of Sharaf, who stepped down on Monday. Tantawi also said that a presidential election would be held before the end of June next year while next week's ...
--Moscow is set to expand dialogue with the Muslim world, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.
Medvedev made his comments in a message to the Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group forum in Kuwait.
"Your activity helps form a joint alternative to radicalism and extremism which has neither religious nor national identity," the Russian leader said, adding that the forum contributed to the "establishment of harmonious ...
The environment is a divine blessing for all human beings. Whatever harm and damage we do to environment and our surroundings, in fact, we have ruined the rights of a human or all humans.
In religious teachings, special attention has been paid to preserving the environment. A life without pure environment is not a sweet and pleasant life from the viewpoint of Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him). There are many Hadiths which either have forbidden ...
He added that one of the major causes of the spread of irreligiosity and atheism in the Islamic world is that some Muslim youth do not have the support for firm thinking and belief and cannot assess what they hear, especially since those who spread atheism spread their ideas with simple and comprehensible explanations for the youth.
In another part of his speech, Sheik Ahmad Al-Tayyeb said that some so-called international human rights ...
awareness about the life of infallible Imam is an important and spiritual act and this international conference aims to increase the knowledge about these figures and to declare the characteristics and dealings of these great people as ideal. He added that national conference of Imam Hassan Mujtaba (A.S) will take place in accordance with his martyrdom on 28th of Safar in the Holy sanctuary of martyrs. Hujjat ul Islam Gairali said that the ...
the hajj offices of the Religious References have started their activities in Medina city. Hajj offices have been established in Medina city by the Religious References to answer the religious questions of pilgrims. Hajj website of Medina city reported that to-date the Hajj offices of Hazrat Seestani, Makaram Sherazi and Safi Gulpaigani have started functioning in Medina city. It is noticeable that the offices of the Religious References are ...
Ashraf al-Qader, the director of Public Relations and Information Department in Gaza’s Health Ministry, said "infant incubators, dialysis machines, hematology laboratories, cardiac catheterization units, ICUs, in addition to diagnostic radiology units will be prone to the drug deficiency."
He added that "the paucity of medicines reached its peak in March, whereas 186 varieties of drugs as well as 200 varieties of medical disposables have ...
Office of senior cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi in a press release gave explanations about the invitation by the senior Saudi clerics extended to Ayatollah Makarem to attend a debate session with them.
The explanations came after the some Saudi websites reported that senior Saudi cleric Sheikh Abdollah bin Soleiman has said that the senior Saudi clerics are ready to take part in debate sessions with Shiite clerics in Saudi Arabia ...
GUNMEN in southern Thailand killed on Wednesday three Muslim men, including a religious teacher, shortly after they met military officials at an army base, police said.
More than 4,300 people, both Muslims and Buddhists, have been killed in Thailand's deep south bordering Malaysia in six years of unrest blamed on Muslim separatist insurgents.
The gunmen ambushed a van carrying the religious teacher and two Muslim politicians in Narathiwat ...
The session was held on Monday (May 21, 2012) at the University of Quranic Sciences.
In her opening speech, Masoumeh Yazdan Panah said, “There are no real translators of the holy Quran in the world. Frankly speaking, no one has managed to present a real translation of the book in any languages in the world. ‘Translator’ is a term erroneously applied for the one who presents divine words in a different language. We, translators, are still ...
Bahraini authorities have launched a security crackdown in the first anniversary of the protests on February 14, Security forces and the forces in civilian clothes raided the houses and arrested demonstrators brutally.Witnesses told that Security forces raided the houses in Bani Jamra, Sanabis, Daih, Nuwaidrat and other areas in recent days.The arrests are proactive security crackdown before 14 February, after called for opposition groups to ...
Glasgow Central Mosque has been witnessing a surge in the number of Scottish people reverting to Islam, a phenomenon noticed in mosques across the country, OnIslam reported. “I’d done a degree in comparative religion and had to analyze all the religious texts,” Hannah, a 25-year-old administrator from Glasgow who recently reverted told The Sunday Herald. Hannah is one of about 200 Scots who take the decision to revert to ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Bahrain's clerics stressed that "the mourning processions for Ahlulbayt (Prophet Muhammad's Family) was and shall remain as great with strong and mass participation, reflecting deep devotion and popular interaction with the calamities of Ahlulbayt and their authentic Islamic path.""The desperate threats of terrorist Takfiris aims at degrading the mourning rituals and decreasing the level of participation yet it shall not ...
-- On the occasion of the 20th demise anniversary of Grand Ayatollah Mar’ashi Najafi, a congress is to be held in January to commemorate the late source of emulation.
Slated for January 21, the congress is organized in the holy city of Qom by the Islamic Sciences and Culture Research Center.
The congress will feature lectures and speeches on the life and character of the grand religious scholar and jurisprudent. Two books featuring his ...
At a press conference held at the Lyric, Eva said: "Many people were saved from the tragedy of the holocaust through the action of others. A major tragedy is now unfolding in Pakistan with over 14 million people affected by the floods, who are at risk from diseases spread from contaminated drinking water and flooding after further rainfall. There is much we can do to help them."
Eva was accompanied by Nic Careem, the play's producer/director, ...
Cameron told the lower house of the British parliament that Iran is developing nuclear missiles capable of hitting London, British media reported.
The accusations had echoes of the run-up to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, when then prime minister Tony Blair wrongly claimed that Iraq had the ability to launch a chemical weapons attack on British bases in Cyprus within 45 minutes of an order from Saddam Hussein, the executed Iraqi ...
AhlulBayt News Agency - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says that the so-called Islamic State (IS, ISIS) has been training thousands of children from about 100 countries to fight Iraqi security forces.In a press conference on Monday, Abadi said around 40 foreign suicide bombers enter Iraq each month and he called on countries in the region to curb the flow of foreign fighters.Suicide bombers are one of the deadliest weapons of the ...