According to the Iranian Cultural Center in Moscow, Muslims in the city often have difficulty finding a place in which to say their prayers, especially Friday prayers. Recently, they rented a building in the Zyablikovo District south of the capital which was formerly used as a supermarket. They have since ...
Read More »Official: Iran’s Tourism Industry Untouched by US Sanctions
TEHRAN (FNA)- Deputy Head of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHHTO) Mohammad Khayyatian announced that millions of tourists have visited the country in the past few months despite the US sanctions. “The tourism industry has not been hurt under sanctions and some 6mln tourists have entered the country ...
Read More »Iran’s Representative Comes 2nd in Tunisia Int’l Quran Contest
The ceremony was held at Al-Zaytuna Mosque in the capital, Tunis, with a number of senior officials, including the minister of religious affairs and the grand mufti of Tunisia, as well as diplomats from Muslim countries in attendance. According to the panel of judges, the Algerian Qari bagged the top ...
Read More »300 Kids Die in Yemen Every Day: Health Minister
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Every day, 300 Yemeni children suffering from various diseases, including cancer, lose their lives, meaning a genocide is happening before the eyes of the world in the impoverished country. Yemeni Minister of Public Health and Population Taha al-Mutawakel, citing a new report by the United ...
Read More »Protesters in Iraq Kill Teen, Hang His Corpse in Public
A group of protesters in the Wathba area in Iraq killed and strung a 16-year old boy, hanging his corpse on one of the traffic pole and claiming that he had assaulted them. The resigned prime minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said that the criminal act confirms the propriety of the ...
Read More »Sheikh Khazaali: US, ‘Israel’, Saudi and UAE behind Shedding Iraqi Blood Last October
The Secretary General of Asaib Ahl Haq (League of the Righteous) group Sheik Qais Khazaali stressed that US, Israel, Saudi and UAE were behind shedding the Iraqi blood last October. Addressing Iraqi university students, Sheikh Khazaali said that the government which will be formed would be interim and tasked to ...
Read More »Saudi Aggression on Yemen: 3672 Children Killed, 800 Paralyzed, 400,000 Hit with Malnutrition
1700 days of the Saudi aggression on Yemen killed 3672 Yemeni children and injured around 4000 of others, according to a study made by a local organization. The study added that the aggression physically paralyzed around 800 Yemeni children, pointing that more than 400,000 of others suffer from malnutrition. Yemen ...
Read More »More Latinos in US Leaving Catholic Church for Islam
Together, they repeated word-for-word in Arabic the Shahada, the profession of faith required to convert to Islam. “There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah,” they declared at the mosque, located in a columned brick building that once housed a Cuban community center. For Lopez, ...
Read More »Iraq’s Parliament Accepts PM’s Resignation
According to al-Sumaria News website, the lawmakers voted to accept the premier’s resignation. Speaking after the vote, Parliament Speaker Salim Abdullah al-Jabouri said he would ask President Barham Saleh to appoint a new prime minister. Abdul-Mahdi’s resignation came after top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani urged the parliament to ...
Read More »Kuwaiti Women Receive Permission to Teach Quran
According to menafn website, they were among those who had taken a Quranic course dubbed “Overtake Time and Memorize the Quran”. The Manabir Quranic Society for Women organized the course. Kafa al-Anzi, an official with the society, said 48 women had taken the course and 21 of them managed to ...
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