TEHRAN (IQNA) – British media watchdog, Ofcom, has decided not to investigate a Fireman Sam episode that was accused of showing a character stepping on verses from the Quran despite 170 complaints.
News ID: 3460929 Publish Date : 2016/09/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A new bill designed to clamp down on the production and spread of hate speech is to be submitted to Myanmar's parliament in coming months, officials said Saturday.
News ID: 3460924 Publish Date : 2016/09/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A weekly Quranic session has been launched in The Hague, the Netherlands.
News ID: 3460920 Publish Date : 2016/09/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Hundreds in Myanmar rallied on Tuesday against an advisory commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan to find solutions to the conflict between the country’s Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims, which has cast a pall over democratic reforms.
News ID: 3460915 Publish Date : 2016/09/07
TEHRAN (IQNA) – At a time when people are fighting with each other in the name of religion, a girl in Agra has set a rare example of how humankind can live with peace and harmony.
News ID: 3460913 Publish Date : 2016/09/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – In comments at a security and justice conference on Monday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said he was addressing Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders and other "populists, demagogues and political fantasists," warning that a rise of populist politics could turn violent.
News ID: 3460910 Publish Date : 2016/09/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – More than 1,890 Jewish settlers and Israeli security forces stormed East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in August, according to a Palestinian NGO.
News ID: 3460906 Publish Date : 2016/09/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The US state of California has passed a bill that would penalize companies engaged in boycotting the Israeli regime, prompting pro-Palestinian activists to slam the legislation as a breach of free speech.
News ID: 3460904 Publish Date : 2016/09/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Japanese government wants to attract more Muslim tourists from the Middle East and last year eased visa restrictions for citizens of several regional countries, including the UAE and Jordan.
News ID: 3460900 Publish Date : 2016/09/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An official list of the most popular baby names in England and Wales has sparked fresh debate over whether Mohamed – with all its spelling variations - is the most common boys’ name.
News ID: 3460899 Publish Date : 2016/09/03
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Malaysia’s Selangor state will host an international Quran conference in November to promote Quranic research.
News ID: 3460892 Publish Date : 2016/09/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A group of Iranian Quran activists from the holy city of Mashhad participated in a Quran recitation session organized at the holy shrine of Hazrat Abbas (AS) in Karbala, Iraq.
News ID: 3460886 Publish Date : 2016/08/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The 39th edition of Iran’s National Holy Quran Competition will kick off in the northern city of Rasht, Gilan province, on October 17, an official said.
News ID: 3460885 Publish Date : 2016/08/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An Emirati charity institute has donated 11,000 copies of the Holy Quran to be distributed among Muslims in Guinea.
News ID: 3460884 Publish Date : 2016/08/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An Iraqi university scholar said raising children based on the teachings of the Quran will bring balance to their life that would help them reach salvation in this world and the next.
News ID: 3460882 Publish Date : 2016/08/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Myanmar's stateless Rohingya Muslims should be given the right to citizenship.
News ID: 3460880 Publish Date : 2016/08/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) –The UN has weighed in on France’s ‘burkini ban’ controversy, urging the seaside towns at the heart of the dispute to repeal their restrictions on the concealing swimwear.
News ID: 3460879 Publish Date : 2016/08/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – An audio file of a Quran recitation by Mahdi Gholamnezhad, a top Iranian Qari who traveled to China in Ramadan to recite verses of the Holy Quran in teh East Asian country, is now available online.
News ID: 3460878 Publish Date : 2016/08/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Ali Movahedi, a Quranic master, holds a Quranic session at Vali Asr Mosque in Daneshjou Park here in the Iranian capital every week on Saturday.
News ID: 3460876 Publish Date : 2016/08/30
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The UN’s Middle East envoy told the Security Council that its warning against illegal settlement expansion fell on deaf ears.
News ID: 3460874 Publish Date : 2016/08/31
