TEHRAN (IQNA) – In August, responding to the first reports of Rohingya Muslims fleeing an army-led crackdown in Myanmar, Pope Francis called on his flock to pray for “our Rohingya brethren.”
News ID: 3464526 Publish Date : 2017/11/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muhammad Abrar is still in shock, nearly a week after his house in Ampitiya village in the southern Sri Lankan town of Ginthota came under attack from a Sinhalese-Buddhist mob.
News ID: 3464511 Publish Date : 2017/11/25
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar has subjected Rohingya Muslims to long-term discrimination and persecution that amounts to “dehumanizing apartheid,” Amnesty International said Tuesday in a report that raises questions about what those who have fled a violent military crackdown would face if they returned home.
News ID: 3464483 Publish Date : 2017/11/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar’s persecution of Rohingya Muslims in recent months, which has uprooted a half-million people and been condemned by the United Nations as ethnic cleansing, has been corroborated by many graphic accounts of killings, sexual violence and other atrocities.
News ID: 3464440 Publish Date : 2017/11/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – In the shadow of a demolished mosque, three dozen men gathered in a house in a gloomy district of northern Belgrade.
News ID: 3464439 Publish Date : 2017/11/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Myanmar's military denied widespread accounts of violence, including murder, rape and destruction of property, against the persecuted Rohingya Muslim community in Rakhine state.
News ID: 3464432 Publish Date : 2017/11/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Incidents of hate crimes in the US went up to 6,121 during 2016, seeing an increase of 4.6 percent compared to the previous year, according to data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday.
News ID: 3464425 Publish Date : 2017/11/15
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Kiwi aid worker who has worked in Gaza and similar conflict zones is describing the plight of the Rohingya people fleeing Myanmar as beyond belief.
News ID: 3464400 Publish Date : 2017/11/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Tensions erupted Friday as French officials and residents of a Paris suburb tried to block Muslims from praying in the street — a dispute that reflects nationwide problems with mosque shortages.
News ID: 3464389 Publish Date : 2017/11/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Scores of young Iraqi Muslims have taken part in the restoration of the Middle East’s second largest church, urging their displaced Christian neighbors to return to their homes.
News ID: 3464377 Publish Date : 2017/11/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said the country has been diligently pursuing the resolution of the ongoing Rohingya Muslim crisis in Myanmar.
News ID: 3464364 Publish Date : 2017/11/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The UN Security Council unanimously approved a statement Monday strongly condemning the violence that has caused more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee from Myanmar to Bangladesh, a significant step that still fell short of a stronger resolution that China opposed.
News ID: 3464361 Publish Date : 2017/11/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina called on parliamentarians across the Commonwealth countries to exert pressure on Myanmar to halt its persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority and repatriate the 622,000 who crossed the border into Bangladesh since the start of its military crackdown.
News ID: 3464340 Publish Date : 2017/11/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Geert Wilders, the head of the Dutch far-right Party for Freedom (PVV), canceled a visit to Molenbeek in Brussels, Belgium, on Friday after local officials banned him from organizing an event he had called “a safari of Islam.”
News ID: 3464333 Publish Date : 2017/11/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The United Nations (UN) at the Security Council session on November 2 called the situation of the over 800,000 Rohingya refugees as likely the “most acute” among that of the 65 to 66 million people forcibly displaced in the world.
News ID: 3464329 Publish Date : 2017/11/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Umer Ahmad, a 43-year-old Muslim-American physician from New Jersey, was in his Trenton office when he heard that a rented pickup truck had deliberately driven down a bike path in Lower Manhattan, killing eight people and injuring about a dozen more.
News ID: 3464314 Publish Date : 2017/11/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – US Republican Sen.Jeff Flake (Ariz.) criticized his party's Alabama Senate nominee on Tuesday for previously saying that Muslims should not be able to serve in Congress.
News ID: 3464311 Publish Date : 2017/11/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An official with the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) estimated that over one million Rohingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar and entered Bangladesh.
News ID: 3464279 Publish Date : 2017/10/29
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A trip to Mexico's indigenous Maya heartland showed me how a vibrant Muslim community had sprung up in this predominantly Roman Catholic country.
News ID: 3464274 Publish Date : 2017/10/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Buddhists in Myanmar on Wednesday blocked aid workers from visiting a camp for displaced Rohingya Muslims in the central part of Rakhine State, where the United Nations fears the spread of violence that has already displaced hundreds of thousands.
News ID: 3464258 Publish Date : 2017/10/26
