TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia is considering barring overseas pilgrims from the annual Hajj for the second year running as COVID-19 cases rise globally and worries grow about the emergence of new variants, two sources familiar with the matter said Wednesday.
News ID: 3474636 Publish Date : 2021/05/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – More than 70,000 liters of disinfectants are being used to clean the Grand Mosque in Mecca each day during Ramadan to protect against COVID-19 .
News ID: 3474631 Publish Date : 2021/05/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – With COVID-19 restrictions preventing Barcelona’s Muslim population from celebrating Ramadan at the usual indoor venues, a Catholic church has offered up its open-air cloisters for people to eat and pray together.
News ID: 3474620 Publish Date : 2021/05/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – As India endured an alarming surge in coronavirus ( COVID-19 ) cases last week, overwhelmed hospitals and medical facilities have found an ally in Muslim groups and individuals helping critical patients with oxygen supply and crucial bed space.
News ID: 3474577 Publish Date : 2021/04/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – As the Islamic world prepares to welcome the holy month of Ramadan, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urged greater support for millions of refugees and internally displaced people hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic.
News ID: 3474434 Publish Date : 2021/04/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Egypt would be receiving 854,000 COVID-19 vaccines via the COVAX vaccine-sharing program starting Wednesday, a report from local daily Ahram quoting health officials.
News ID: 3474330 Publish Date : 2021/03/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslims will be exempt from Cambodia’s mandatory order to cremate the bodies of all people who die of COVID-19 , the country’s premier said on Wednesday.
News ID: 3474221 Publish Date : 2021/03/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Saudi Arabia's King Salman approved a range of initiatives aimed at assisting firms and individuals operating in support of Islamic pilgrimages, Saudi state news agency SPA said late Monday.
News ID: 3474204 Publish Date : 2021/03/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Authorities in Ajman, the United Arab Emirates, cancelled all permits for Ramadan tents in the emirate this year as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19 .
News ID: 3474169 Publish Date : 2021/03/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Lotfi Jlassi stood facing Mecca beside the ambulance carrying the body of his brother, who died of COVID-19 , and said a prayer -- one of the few rites still allowed in Tunisia's pared back funerals.
News ID: 3474070 Publish Date : 2021/02/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – When 60-year-old Shenaz Sajan, a British woman from the English Midlands, learned more about COVID-19 , she was hesitant about the vaccines on offer, and hoped that if she needed to, she could fight off the virus with a plant-based diet.
News ID: 3473926 Publish Date : 2021/02/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A mosque in Blackburn, the UK, suspended all prayers in response to the 'growing number of COVID-19 rates'.
News ID: 3473743 Publish Date : 2021/01/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A BJP Member of the Legislative Assembly of India from Uttar Pradesh kicked up a controversy by saying that Muslims who do not have faith in the COVID-19 vaccines developed by the country should go to Pakistan.
News ID: 3473694 Publish Date : 2021/01/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Palestinians denounced the Zionist regime of Israel’s decision to close the Ibrahimi Mosque site in the southern West Bank city of Hebron (al-Khalil) for 10 days.
News ID: 3473655 Publish Date : 2021/01/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The mosque in Exeter, a city in Devon, England, announced that it has taken "the difficult decision" to close temporarily due to COVID-19 .
News ID: 3473629 Publish Date : 2021/01/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Twenty-four Members of the European Parliament (MEP) including Manu Pineda, the Chair of the Delegation for Relations with Palestine, signed a petition launched by the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) which called on the Israeli government to lift its siege of Gaza and allow COVID-19 medical supplies in light of the recent spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the coastal enclave.
News ID: 3473468 Publish Date : 2020/12/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Members of Al Rashid Mosque in Canada’s Edmonton put a smile of the faces of hundreds of seniors on Sunday.
News ID: 3473465 Publish Date : 2020/12/21
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei described nurses as “angels of mercy for patients”.
News ID: 3473456 Publish Date : 2020/12/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) has urged Muslims to be vaccinated once a COVID-19 vaccine is available, and medically authorized as safe and effective.
News ID: 3473394 Publish Date : 2020/12/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The much-anticipated COVID-19 vaccine need not be certified as halal in order to be administered in Malaysia, said Health Ministry director-general Noor Hisham Abdullah, allaying concerns among local Muslims about the shots containing substances forbidden by Islam.
News ID: 3473361 Publish Date : 2020/12/09
