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FIFA, football’s world governing body, authorized Saturday the wearing of head covers for religious purposes during matches after a two-year testing period proved they do not pose a significant risk of injury. The decision by FIFA will allow female players to wear the veil during games and will be extended ...

Pakistani media sources on Saturday reported that the country’s security forces have freed the five Iranian border guards abducted along Iran-Pakistan border on February 6. “Eleven foreign nationals kidnapped by the terrorists were released today in operations conducted by the security forces in Torbat region in (Pakistan’s) Balouchistan province,” Spokesman ...

Yesterday, Hujjat al-Islam Hussaini Qazwini, founder of Velayat TV, addressing a group of scholars going for propagation in the days of Fatimiyyah, spoke about the spread of Wahabiism. He stated: “The wide spread propagation which is being created by the enemies of the Ahlulbayt (a) and Wahabiism against the Shia ...

Imam of the Friday Prayers in Tehran, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, says the policy of the “resistance economy” initiated by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei will defeat sanctions imposed against Iran. “The resistance economy will render all sanctions ineffective,” Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said in his sermon to ...

In a meeting with a delegation of professors and researchers of different academic institutions from North America, Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli spoke about the importance of understanding the true meaning of justice and peace. He stated: “The process of peace and justice is compounded of three elements and as long as ...

Raheem Kassam, the Managing Editor of the website “Breitbart London,” has been named “Islamophobe of the Year” after a public vote organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC). Kassam made his name with the “Student Rights” organisation which has lobbied British universities to keep “extremist preachers” off campus. He ...

Addressing the closing of the 16th international celebration of the works of Sheikh Tusi, Ayatollah Nouri Hamedani spoke about the responsibilities of our scholars in this day and age. He stated: “The work of scholars and the Hawza is a continuation of the duties of the Prophet (s) and Imam ...

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei, on Monday morning, spoke in a meeting with the people of Tabriz and others from the province of Eastern Azerbaijan, on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the uprising of the people of Tabriz on the 18th February ...

A senior Shia religious authority, Ayatollah Bashir Al-Najafi has issued a fatwa in the run up to the upcoming Iraqi elections prohibiting nominees from attracting voters with pay-offs. In the edict, Ayatollah Al-Najafi stated: “The nominees are not allowed to attract the voters by money and the voters are banned ...

Below is a translation of the speech of Sayyid Muqtada Al-Sadr, dated 18th February 2014: I am not of those who turn a blind eye and keep their mouths shut in the face of corruption and wrongdoing. It has been decreed upon us, the Sadrs, to be those who call ...