TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on the Switzerland-based International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to permanently lift the ban on Muslim women athletes wearing Islamic head scarves (hijab) when it issues a final decision on its head-covering policy later this month.
News ID: 3460654 Publish Date : 2016/08/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention has linked arms with Muslim and Jewish leaders to call for the California State Assembly to block a proposed legislation that they say “disadvantages low-income minority students who want an education at private religious colleges.”
News ID: 3460653 Publish Date : 2016/08/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – In a move to counter anti-Muslim sentiment, the California Assembly has designated August as Muslim appreciation and awareness month.
News ID: 3460649 Publish Date : 2016/08/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Head of the Dar-ol-Quran Center of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said an international Quran competition for member states of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is planned to be held in the near future.
News ID: 3460645 Publish Date : 2016/08/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A mobile exhibition in Canada that aims to stop Islamophobia has arrived in Saskatchewan.
News ID: 3460643 Publish Date : 2016/08/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Imamzadeh Saleh, the resting place of Hazrat Saleh, the son of Imam Musa Khazem (AS), is a pilgrimage site in Tehran’s northern neighborhood of Tajrish.
News ID: 3460641 Publish Date : 2016/08/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A workshop on ‘Interfaith Harmony and Tolerance’ which was jointly organized by the International Islamic University (IIU) and Peshawar University, ended on Monday.
News ID: 3460640 Publish Date : 2016/08/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The 2nd edition of “Amir-ol-Qurra” (top Qari) national Quran recitation plan for Iraqi teenage Qaris has been underway since August 5 in the holy city of Karbala.
News ID: 3460634 Publish Date : 2016/08/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An official with the Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) World Assembly said the assembly has had 15 works on the Razavi (Imam Reza(AS)) culture translated into various languages including English and French.
News ID: 3460633 Publish Date : 2016/08/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Australian Muslims are “underemployed and underpaid” a corporate audience has been told at an event addressing the harmful effects of prejudice and Islamophobia.
News ID: 3460630 Publish Date : 2016/08/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Iranian Cultural Center in Senegal organized a workshop on Tajweed recitation of the Quran in Dakar, Senegal.
News ID: 3460628 Publish Date : 2016/08/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Members of London’s Muslim community joined together outside Victoria Park Saturday for the first Meet a Muslim event.
News ID: 3460627 Publish Date : 2016/08/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A 3-year-old Nigerian boy is the youngest in the African country to memorize the entire Quran.
News ID: 3460621 Publish Date : 2016/08/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) –All management of mosques in Malaysia's Perlis state have been asked to conduct more activities that can bring the public, especially the youth closer to the institution.
News ID: 3460620 Publish Date : 2016/08/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The 18th edition of the international Quranic festival of Jameat-ol-Quran Al-Karim Institute concluded in the central Iranian city of Yazd earlier this week.
News ID: 3460619 Publish Date : 2016/08/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Effort is being made to upgrade Darul Quran, a religious institution under Malaysia's Islamic Development Department (Jakim), into a university college, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Jamil Khir Baharom.
News ID: 3460618 Publish Date : 2016/08/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Al Khalifa regime in Bahrain has summoned three Shia clerics for interrogation, social media activists said.
News ID: 3460617 Publish Date : 2016/08/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Imam Hussein (AS) Center in the British capital of London recently held its annual Quran competition.
News ID: 3460615 Publish Date : 2016/08/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Iranian Cultural Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, plans to hold a Quran competition for Iranian students residing in the Southeast Asian country.
News ID: 3460613 Publish Date : 2016/08/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Zionist regime military forces shot and wounded six young Palestinian men during skirmishes in the blockaded Gaza Strip near the border with the occupied Palestinian territories, as well as the central part of West Bank.
News ID: 3460612 Publish Date : 2016/08/06
