Iran Donates Digital Qurans to Students in Uganda

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Several Muslim students are the beneficiaries of digital Quran copies from the Iranian embassy in Uganda after participating in a religious recitation competition, last week.

The donation, at Mulago dental school, came at the end of the sixth inter-institutions Islamic Medical students’ Quran recitation competition.

Handing over the digital copies, the Iranian Cultural Attaché in Uganda, Ali Bakhtiari, appealed to the winning students to preach peace and promote the faith.

For their part, the student leader, Abdu-Salaam Kalanzi Bwogi, commended the institutions for allowing the students to participate in the competition, as it instills discipline.

The participants were drawn from Makerere University, Islamic University in Uganda, Jinja school of nursing and midwifery, Medicare school of health, Butabika school of nursing and Mengo school of nursing.

Source: The Observer