-- Participants in the Parliament of the World's Religions are calling for more interfaith understanding and a world move to save humanity from a climate disaster, the Australian daily the Age reported on Wednesday, December 9.
"A new global conversation has to begin," Chandra Mufazzar, founder of the International Movement for a Just World, told the several-days meeting, which concluded its activities in the Melbourne Wednesday.
The Muslim ...
-- Saudi scouts will be equipped with GPS software to guide pilgrims during the Hajj, said Abdullah Al-Fahd, vice president of the Saudi Arabian Scouts Society.
“We will experiment with the system and hope it will simplify the various tasks undertaken by scouts. The system will be studied and applied extensively in coming years. We will also be cooperating with the Presidency of Youth Affairs and other related departments in this matter,” ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Delivering Friday sermons at holy shrine of Imam Reza (Peace be upon him) Ayatollah Alam al Huda expressed: Imam Khomeini (RA) was a great and matchless blessing of God for the Iranian Muslim nation and Shias of the world as well which cannot be matched with any other blessing in this dark period.
Islamic Republic system's existence is a miracle of God as the enemies had coordinated particular conspiracies and ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Brunei's High Commissioner in Pakistan, Abdul Jalil said here Tuesday that Islamic countries would continue support to Pakistan in rehabilitating the militancy-affected people of Swat and other conflict areas.
Addressing a jirga of elders at the Circuit House on Tuesday, he said he was happy over return of peace and normalcy to the scenic Swat valley.
Ambassadors of 13 Islamic countries including Mahmood Amir ...
playing with fire after his country’s parliament voted to ban Muslim women from wearing the Islamic veil in public places.
Last month, Sarkozy ordered the French parliament to debate introducing a ban on Muslim women donning in public the garment known as the burka or nijab, which covers the face except for the eyes.
This week, 11 May, the French parliament voted unanimously – after 30 communist deputies walked out in protest – to ...
On the 12th day of the auspicious month of Ramadan 1439 (28th of May 2018), a group of University students and representatives from student associations met with Ayatollah Khamenei this afternoon at the Hussayniyeh of Imam Khomeini (ra).(AhlulBayt News Agency) - In a three-hour intimate, lively and fervid meeting between hundreds of students from various universities and Leader of the Islamic Ummah Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the ...
The scroll written by the Women from Kermanshah province was displayed in the Islamic Parliament hall to show their supports for Bahraini women.
The scroll written by the women from Kermanshah province was displayed in the Islamic Parliament hall as a symbol to support the oppressed women of Bahrain.
Mohammad Karami Rad, the member of the Islamic Parliament for Kermanshah people illustrated this scroll in the open session sidelines of ...
Real change takes time, nothing happens over night. From the cradle of civilisation until now, the common theme that unites human history is that we constantly adapt and never stop changing. In the previous century the world witnessed huge upheavals, the eradication of many forms of barbaric political systems such as the heinous apartheid regime in South Africa. But such systematic change is always a process, and the beginning of 2011 marked a ...
The competition was organized to take the primary steps in developing the process of Quran publication, said the minister, adding, “When Quranic concepts are connected with art, they are more influential and lasting and will attract a greater number of readers.”
“To reach a higher quality in Quran publication, we need to make better use of other countries’ experiences, while we can also transfer our knowledge in return,” Hosseini ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Indonesia became a standard reference for determining the Halal world together with Malaysia and Singapore.
“The result of our agreement in this meeting, we equate Halal standards with reference to Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore,” said President of the World Halal Council Lukmanul Hakim in Jakarta, Sunday.
The deal was taken in the international meeting on halal standards are followed by 31 institutions ...
Militant mortar attacks around the Syrian capital, Damascus, have left ten people dead and 53 others wounded. Syrian official news agency, SANA, reported on Sunday that the mortar shells targeted the Central Prison and the al-Wafedeen Camp. The Syrian Interior Ministry and a police source said five mortar shells hit the Central Prison in Adra district, killing ten, including several prison guards, and injuring 50 people. Three more mortar ...
The world's pre-eminent Sunni Muslim institution of learning has condemned a Florida church's plans to host a Quran-burning ceremony on Sept. 11.In a statement carried by local media on Thursday, Al-Azhar's Supreme Council in Egypt accused the church of "stirring up hate and discrimination" and called on other American churches to condemn the event. The Dove World Outreach Center is planning to burn the Islamic holy text on church grounds in ...
76 Palestinians suffered different injuries on Friday during clashes with Israeli soldiers and policemen in different flashpoint areas in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem, according to different media sources. In Gaza, the clashes, which took place in different border areas to the east and north, led to the injury of seven young men, one of them seriously. In the West Bank and Jerusalem, Palestinian young men clashed with Israeli ...
“This is a problem that urgently needs to be solved.”
Berlin is home to a 300,000-strong Muslim community, basically the ancestors of Turkish workers who came to Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and stayed.
Berlin has only two operational cemeteries dedicated to Muslims, which are attached to public Christian cemeteries and their 2,000 gravesites will be full by early next year.
The Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious ...
More than 7500 Arab prisoners, including 37 women, are languishing in Zionist jails. This was stated at the last April 27 in Moscow press conference, Chairman of the Committee’s assistance to Palestinian prisoners in Israel Faris Faris Riyadh.
Palestinian human rights lawyer Riad Faris Faris travels on a number of countries around the world to draw global attention to the horrendous plight of Palestinian and Arab prisoners in Israeli ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), SHIRAZ, Iran -- Habib Shahbazi, handicrafts vicar of Shiraz province said this fine Quran is exhibited in festival of handicrafts, traditional foods and introducing historical monuments of Pasargadae.
He added, “This large Quran is made in 1.20 meter length and 70 cm width. It is made of fine leather and so far three volumes of it have been prepared.”
Handicrafts vicar of Shiraz province reminded, ...
Bahrain is expanding the crackdown on the opposition as security forces open fire on anti-government protesters in the capital Manama and several other towns nearby.
On Wednesday, Bahraini troops, backed by Saudi forces, attacked protesters in Diraz, Sanabis, Nuwaidrat and Belad al-Qadeem, UPI quoted witnesses as saying.
Security forces have also managed to disperse the protesters in Manama.
Witnesses say a 15-year-old boy was martyred in the ...
As many as seven persons of a Christian family embraced Islam at the hands of a prominent religious cleric Pir Ahmad Raza Al-Mustafa during a special ceremony held at a local mosque in village Jhaaraanwala here. The said family was laboring at a local bricks kiln.
Their Islamic names would be as: Mushtaq Maseeh-Muhammad Mushtaq, Inderyas Maseeh-Muhammad Ali, Sahil Maseeh-Bilal Ahmad, Dawood Maseeh-Dawood Ahmad, Shahid Maseeh-Muhammad Shahid, ...
