TEHRAN (IQNA) – It’s lunchtime on a Friday and dozens of Muslim men are kneeling in prayer inside an austere unit on the ground floor of the dilapidated Kai Tak Mansion in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong.
News ID: 3460709 Publish Date : 2016/08/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Listen to recitation of the Quran by five more prominent Iranian Qaris and decide which one you think is the best.
News ID: 3460702 Publish Date : 2016/08/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A court has upheld the ban on full-body swimsuits by the Mayor of Cannes.
News ID: 3460700 Publish Date : 2016/08/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Officials in Bowling Green, a city in Kentucky, United States, say a firefighter has retired after a video surfaced showing him burning a copy of the Quran.
News ID: 3460694 Publish Date : 2016/08/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – American Muslim Ilhan Omar made history on Tuesday, August 9, by becoming the first Somali-American lawmaker in the United States after winning the Democratic primary election in Minnesota House District 60B.
News ID: 3460692 Publish Date : 2016/08/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The women of the US saber squad had not been pleased by their performances in the individual competition at these 2016 Summer Games, but they broke through Saturday with Ibtihaj Muhammad becoming the first American in a hijab to step on the Olympic podium.
News ID: 3460689 Publish Date : 2016/08/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Malaysia's Police have reminded the public, especially youths, to remain vigilant and not be easily influenced by a magazine published by the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group, known as 'Dabiq'.
News ID: 3460685 Publish Date : 2016/08/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is on an official visit to Turkey, attended the Friday prayers in Ankara yesterday.
News ID: 3460679 Publish Date : 2016/08/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Israel has razed more Palestinian homes and other structures so far this year than in all of 2015, the United Nations said Friday, as the United States and France expressed concern.
News ID: 3460678 Publish Date : 2016/08/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – As the standard uniform of female beach volleyball players at the Summer Olympics currently underway in Brazil is the bikini, Egypt’s Doaa el-Ghobashy has raised eyebrows by becoming the first beach volleyball player to participate at the games wearing hijab (Muslim covering for women).
News ID: 3460677 Publish Date : 2016/08/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Senior Nigerian Shia cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky’s health has been worsening, Shia Rights Watch (SRW) said.
News ID: 3460668 Publish Date : 2016/08/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A delegation led by Iraq’s ambassador to Iran held a meeting with Iranian officials at the Interior Ministry here in Tehran on Tuesday to discussed preparations for the upcoming Arbaeen ceremony.
News ID: 3460657 Publish Date : 2016/08/10
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
