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The following are the remarks of United Nation’s Secretary General Ban Ki Moon after meeting Ayatollah Sistani in Najaf earlier today. Assalam Alaikum. Ramadan Kareem. I am extremely honored to have met His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani today for the first time. He is a man of the deepest wisdom ...

Ayatollah Aal Raadhi, one of the respected teachers from the Islamic seminaries in Iraq, during his class on jurisprudence and its principles, spoke about the importance of the religious edict of Ayatollah Sistani in special reference to the relationship between the Islamic seminary and the government. The respected teacher stated: ...

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran would do whatever it takes to protect revered Shia Muslim holy sites in Iraq against ISIL terrorists fighting the Baghdad government. “Dear Karbala, Dear Najaf, Dear Kadhimiyah and Dear Samarra, we warn the great powers and their lackeys and the terrorists, the great Iranian people ...

[Picture: President of Majlis-e-Ulama Shia Maulana Sayyid Ali Raza Rizvi (Left) and General Secretary of Majlis Wahdatul Muslimeen Pakistan Maulana Raja Nasir Abbas (Right)] Majlis Ulama-E-Shia (Europe) – A Religious Organisation of Shia Scholars in Europe which represents the Shia Muslims originating from the Subcontinent wrote a letter to the ...

The office of the Religious Authority Grand Ayatollah, Ali al-Sistani condemned arresting the foreign  students of the religious institutions in Najaf. A statement by Sistani’s office received by IraqiNews.com cited “The security forcesarrested some of the Pakistani students in Najaf under the justification of violating the terms of the residential permits.” “The Religious Authority calls for stopping the ...

MP Hassan al-Yasseri said on Saturday that the main objective behind the move is to show to the world that the Shia school of Islam is fiercely opposed to sectarianism and takfiri thought and that it seeks peace and dialogue among religious denominations.  Al-Yasseri said the move can highlight the ...

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 ...